Leuer Alcindor is quietly having a pretty good season for the not-very-good Suns. It’s a contract year for him, the cap is expanding, and there’s a market for stretch fours. If he was going to pick a time to play well, now would be a good time; he stands to get paid more dollars per year than he has made in total over his career up to this point.
If the Suns really wanted to help him out, they would play him 40 MPG like they did in this game. To achieve this you would probably have to bench Tyson Chandler with the understanding that you’ll try to find a new home for him in the offseason. If the Suns were bros they would do that, but I’m pretty sure the league consensus is that Robert Sarver is about as not a bro as you can be while still being part of the male gender.