Pictured in the thumbnail: Deandre Ayton smiling for the first time all season.
Things have been pretty grim over in Phoenix this season. NBA players don’t like to lose, and the Suns have been doing almost nothing but since opening night (a night where they actually won, what are the odds?). Did I catch wind of a mini-beef between Ayton and Devin Booker? I think I did, but that’s what losing does to people. It makes them beef-prone.
But now they have won three in a row, an incredible feat for a previously 4-win, 24-loss team. Hence the smiles from Ayton. Even if he felt fleeting moments of joy during all those losses, NBA etiquette states that players on the losing team of a game must remain stoic at all times. Now, he can smile, he can dance, he can bang hookers, he can do all these things because he is a WINNER.