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The 2014–15 Phoenix Suns season is the 47th season of the franchise in the NBA.〔(2014-15 Phoenix Suns )〕 It is also the last season when the arena would be named the US Airways Center, before it is renamed Talking Stick Resort Arena beginning in October 2015. With Channing Frye and Leandro Barbosa leaving in free agency and Goran Dragić being traded to the Miami Heat near the end of the trade deadline, no other player on the team had made the playoffs with the organization in previous years now. The Suns were in playoff contention for much of the season but suffered in the final weeks, partly due to injuries involving Brandon Knight and later Alex Len. The Suns capped off the 2014–15 NBA season with five consecutive losses and losing 10 out of 11 games total (the worst season-ending stretch since its inaugural season), finishing 3rd place in Pacific division and 10th place in Western Conference with a 39-43 record. The Suns did not qualify for the playoffs for the fifth straight year, which currently ties the stretch from the 1970-71 to 1974-75 seasons as the team's longest playoff drought. What would mark this season in particular were the trades the Suns had done throughout the season. In the offseason, the Suns would trade for point guard Isaiah Thomas for 2013 second round pick Alex Oriakhi. Thomas would later on be traded in a massive multi-team trade that would also result in the Dragić brothers, rookie guard Tyler Ennis, and center Miles Plumlee going to some different teams in exchange for guard Brandon Knight from the Milwaukee Bucks, Marcus Thornton from the Boston Celtics, Danny Granger from the Miami Heat, and three different future first round picks. Before then, the Suns would try to remain competitive with smaller trades like trading Anthony Tolliver to the Detroit Pistons for Tony Mitchell (who would eventually be waived), trading a future Minnesota Timberwolves first round pick to Boston for center Brandan Wright, and being involved in a three-way trade with the Celtics and Los Angeles Clippers that gave them Reggie Bullock for Shavlik Randolph. ==Key dates== *May 20, 2014: The NBA Draft Lottery takes place. *June 26, 2014: The 2014 NBA Draft takes place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. *July 1, 2014: The NBA free agency period begins. *July 7, 2014: Channing Frye agrees to a 4-year, $32 million contract to play for the Orlando Magic, which signifies the completion of dismembering the last Suns playoff roster between 2010 and now (although Goran Dragić would return in 2012 after being traded a year earlier). *July 10, 2014: Teams can sign, trade, and amnesty players; P.J. Tucker agrees to a 3-year, $17.5 million contract to stay with the Suns. *July 11, 2014: The Suns complete a sign-and-trade, sending Alex Oriakhi and a $7 million trade exception to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for point guard Isaiah Thomas, who agrees to a 4-year, $27 million contract. *July 15, 2014: The Suns waive Ishmael "Ish" Smith's contract before it became guaranteed for the rest of the season. *July 16, 2014: Anthony Tolliver signs a 2-year, $6 million contract to play with the Suns. *July 28, 2014: P.J. Tucker is arrested for "super-extreme DUI."〔(Suns player P.J. Tucker accused of 'super-extreme' DUI )〕 *August 8, 2014: Both first rounders T.J. Warren and Tyler Ennis sign.〔(Suns sign first-round picks T.J. Warren, Tyler Ennis )〕 *August 12, 2014: The NBA suspend P.J. Tucker was suspended for the first three games of the regular season. *August 13, 2014: The NBA accidentally leaks out that the Suns' Martin Luther King, Jr. Day game would be at home against the Los Angeles Lakers on TNT before the schedule is announced. After starting last season with only one ESPN game (with three more added during the regular season), the Suns get 17 nationally televised games, including 4 on ESPN and 6 on TNT (including a home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder and the regular season finale against the Los Angeles Clippers). *September 24, 2014: After months of inactivity, Eric Bledsoe agrees to a 5-year, $70 million contract. *September 25, 2014: The Suns partially buys out the contract of Zoran Dragić, Goran's brother, in order to sign him on a 2-year contract worth $4,012,500. *September 29, 2014: Media Day and training camp begins for the Suns; twin brothers Markieff and Marcus Morris receive 4-year contract extensions worth $32 million and $20 million, respectively. *October 29, 2014: The Suns play their first regular season game. *November 4, 2014: P.J. Tucker completes his three-game suspension. *November 19, 2014: The Suns plays the Detroit Pistons at The Palace of Auburn Hills on the tenth anniversary of Malice at the Palace, winning 88-86. *December 2, 2014: The Suns announce the new name of the U.S. Airways Center, Talking Stick Resort Arena, which takes effect after the season. *December 24, 2014: The Suns trade Anthony Tolliver to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for power forward Tony Mitchell, who used to play basketball for North Texas University. *December 28, 2014: Following a six-game losing streak, the Suns start December with a six-game winning streak with wins over the Charlotte Hornets, New York Knicks, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings, and Los Angeles Lakers, with all but the Dallas game on the road. *January 9, 2015: Prior to the Suns' close road loss against the rival San Antonio Spurs, the Suns traded with general manager Ryan McDonough's former team, the Boston Celtics, to grab the rights of power forward/center Brandan Wright in exchange for the Minnesota Timberwolves' top 12 protected first round pick the Suns first got from their Robin Lopez and Hakim Warrick for Wesley Johnson trade, which would be conveyed to two second round picks in 2016 and 2017 if the conditions aren't met by the end of the 2015-16 NBA season. The Suns would also waive Tony Mitchell's rights in the process. *January 13, 2015: When the Suns had their 107-100 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Suns would begin their eight-game homestand for January, which marked the longest homestand in franchise history. This game also marked the Suns' halfway point into the regular season, which came by the Suns much faster than most of the teams in the NBA. *January 15, 2015: Before the Suns' upcoming home game against the Minnesota Timberwolves and a day after assigning Archie Goodwin to the Bakersfield Jam again, the Suns would complete a three-way trade with the Los Angeles Clippers and the Boston Celtics. The Suns would end up getting second-year player Reggie Bullock from the Los Angeles Clippers, while the Boston Celtics would take on Shavlik Randolph's cap space in order for the Clippers to have coach Doc Rivers' son Austin Rivers become a part of the same team again. *January 19, 2015: The Suns' home game against the Los Angeles Lakers would be the first time in nearly two years that the Suns would play a nationally televised game on TNT. Phoenix would win in convincing fashion by the score of 115-100 over the Lakers on that day, and they would also create their first season sweep over the Lakers since the 2004-05 season. That game also provided the Suns' their 100th overall victory over the Lakers.〔(Suns Recap: Phoenix Sweeps L.A. Lakers For First Time Since 2005 )〕 *January 24, 2015: Markieff and Marcus Morris would get involved in an assault case with a former mentor of theirs named Erick Hood. *January 30, 2015: After the Suns' 99-93 victory over the Chicago Bulls (which was Derrick Rose's first matchup against the Suns since 2011 and the Suns' first home victory over the Bulls since November 15, 2007), the Suns would end their longest homestand in team history with a 6-2 record. *February 13, 2015: The NBA All-Star Weekend break begins. *February 19, 2015: The NBA's trade deadline takes effect; the Suns completed a six-way trade with the Milwaukee Bucks, Miami Heat, New Orleans Pelicans, Philadelphia 76ers, and the Boston Celtics (again) by trading away both Zoran and Goran Dragić to the Heat, both Miles Plumlee and Tyler Ennis to the Bucks, Isaiah Thomas to the Celtics, and the Top-5 protected 2015 Los Angeles Lakers draft pick to the 76ers. In exchange for those guys, the Suns would end up getting star guard Brandon Knight (and Kendall Marshall) from the Bucks, Marcus Thornton from the Celtics, veteran small forward Danny Granger from the Heat, and John Salmons from the New Orleans Pelicans, as well as a 2016 first round pick from the Celtics via the Cleveland Cavaliers and two future first round draft picks from the Heat. This series of moves officially completed the transition period from the last time the Suns made it to the playoffs, as well as leaves only three current Suns players that were on the Suns during their second-worst season in team history. The Suns would also waive both Kendall Marshall and John Salmons later on that day. *February 20, 2015: The Suns would sign former Suns center and training camp invitee Earl Barron to a 10-day contract. *March 3, 2015: The Suns would sign center Earl Barron to a second 10-day contract. *March 10, 2015: The Suns would sign guard Seth Curry, brother of Stephen Curry, to a 10-day contract for back-up purposes due to an injury that Brandon Knight got during the second home game against, funnily enough, the Golden State Warriors. *March 13, 2015: The Suns would sign center Earl Barron for the rest of the season. *March 20, 2015: After completing his initial 10 day contract, Seth Curry would be waived from the team and be replaced by back-up point guard A.J. Price with his own 10 day contract. *March 31, 2015: After completing his own 10 day contract, A.J. Price would be waived from the team due to his poor performance with the group. *April 1, 2015: The Suns would sign guard Bakersfield Jam affiliate guard Jerel McNeal to a 10-day contract. *April 11, 2015: After completing his 10-day contract, the Suns decided to sign Jerel McNeal into the 2015-16 NBA season. *April 17, 2015: Brandon Knight would go under arthroscopic surgery to take care of an anterior flap that was causing irritation to his injured ankle. *April 21, 2015: Markieff and Marcus Morris officially get felony assault charges on an incident around January 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2014–15 Phoenix Suns season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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