2013–14 Phoenix Suns season

• April 22, 2013: The Phoenix Suns fired general manager Lance Blanks.
• May 7, 2013: The Suns hired the
  assistant general manager Ryan McDonough
  as their new general manager.
• May 21, 2013: The NBA Draft Lottery took place.
• May 26, 2013: The Suns did not renew interim head coach Lindsey Hunter's contract; former Suns player Jeff Hornacek became Hunter's replacement as the official head coach.
• June 19, 2013: The Suns' newest logos were leaked out to the Internet.
• June 25, 2013: Former Boston Celtics affiliates Jerry Sichting and Mike Longabardi, as well as former Suns players Kenny Gattison and Mark West, were officially named assistant head coaches to the new coaching staff; both Noel Gillespie and Dan Panaggio were fired from their assistant coaching positions.
• June 26, 2013: The Suns officially revealed their newest logos and colors to start the new season.
• June 27, 2013: The 2013 NBA draft took place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn; Phoenix traded their 30th draft pick (Nemanja Nedović) to the Golden State Warriors for the Oklahoma City Thunder's 29th pick (Archie Goodwin) and Malcolm Lee (both of whom were added by the Warriors in earlier trades) to add to their own selections of Alex Len at pick number 5 and Alex Oriakhi at number 57.
• June 29, 2013: The Phoenix Suns officially waived center Hamed Haddadi from the team. The Suns saved $1.2 million since Haddadi was initially owed $1.4 million had he stayed for the season.
• July 1, 2013: The NBA
  free agency
  period began.
• July 2, 2013: The Suns agreed to trade shooting guard-small forward Jared Dudley to the Los Angeles Clippers and a 2014 second-round pick from either the Sacramento Kings or the Toronto Raptors (which was given to the team last season in a trade involving Sebastian Telfair) to the Milwaukee Bucks for point guard Eric Bledsoe and small forward Caron Butler, both of whom last played for the Clippers.
• July 10, 2013: Teams could officially sign, trade, and amnesty players to their liking.
• July 27, 2013: The Suns traded
  power forward Luis Scola to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Gerald Green, Miles Plumlee
  , and a top 14-protected 2014 first-round draft pick.
• August 6, 2013: The NBA released the official 2013–14 league schedules.
• August 15, 2013: The team revealed their newest uniforms, nicknamed the "Speed of Light" uniforms. The new uniforms were worn by rookies Alex Len and Archie Goodwin, new player(s) Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler, and returning Suns player P. J. Tucker.
• August 29, 2013: The Suns traded small forward Caron Butler to his hometown team (the Milwaukee Bucks) in exchange for Ukrainian center Viacheslav Kravtsov and American point guard Ish Smith; Diante Garrett officially left to play for the Oklahoma City Thunder; Alex Len officially signed with the Suns.
• August 30, 2013: Channing Frye announced on Instagram that he was officially 100% healthy to play for the Suns once again.
• September 3, 2013: Michael Beasley had his contract bought out by the team, meaning he was officially waived by the Suns; buying out his contract resulted in the Suns saving close to over $3,000,000 through the next four years.
• September 30, 2013: The Suns confirmed that Channing Frye was officially 100% healthy for training with the team a day before training camp at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona begins.
• October 25, 2013: Center Marcin Gortat, shooting guards Shannon Brown & Malcolm Lee, and second-year point guard Kendall Marshall (who the Suns drafted last year) were traded to the Washington Wizards for forward-center Emeka Okafor and their Top 12 protected 2014 first round draft pick; the Suns also cut shooting guard James Nunnally from their training camp roster.
• October 30, 2013: The regular season for the Suns begins.
• November 11, 2013:
  Power forward Markieff Morris ends up winning the Western Conference's Player of the Week award from November 4–November 10, 2013 for his improved production off the bench, which included setting a record that only Dwight Howard and former Suns player Charles Barkley
  had reached before in their careers.
• January 2, 2014: Coach Jeff Hornacek wins the Coach of the Month award for December 2013 due to the team's performance during that month. He also becomes the third former NBA player (with Larry Bird and Larry Drew being the first two) to win both a Player of the Month and Coach of the Month award in their professional careers, as well as the first to win both awards with the same team.
• January 8, 2014: Former Suns fan favorite Leandro Barbosa signs a 10-day contract to play for the Phoenix Suns again.
• January 9, 2014: Eric Bledsoe has surgery to partially remove a torn meniscus in his right knee.
• January 18, 2014: Leandro Barbosa would sign another 10-day contract to continue playing for the Suns.
• January 26, 2014: The Suns would get their 25th win off of a 99–90 road victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. This would tie the total number of wins the team had throughout the entirety of their last season they played.
• January 27, 2014: The Suns surpassed their total number of wins from last season by winning 124–113 against the Philadelphia 76ers on the road.
• February 3, 2014: Guard Goran Dragić ends up winning the Western Conference's Player of the Week award from January 27–February 2, 2014 for averaging 26.8 points on 63.9% shooting and 69.2% three-point shooting, 6 assists, and 4 rebounds while averaging 29.2 minutes per game in all four victories during that week, with two full games having Goran recovering from an elbow injury their road game against the Milwaukee Bucks.
• February 6, 2014: Goran Dragić ends up being confirmed as one of 8 possible candidates for the newly revamped Taco Bell Skills Challenge.
• February 7, 2014: Center
  BBVA Rising Stars Challenge after initial rookie center candidate Pero Antić of the Atlanta Hawks
  was injured from the game.
• February 14, 2014: The 2014
  NBA All-Star Weekend
  break begins.
• February 21, 2014: The Suns would get their 33rd victory against the San Antonio Spurs in a blowout 106–85 game. This ties the Suns' win total from the lockout shortened 2011–12 NBA season, which was also the last season the Suns would have Steve Nash playing for the team. They'd also get their first official sold–out game at home since around 2012 in the process, as well as beat the San Antonio Spurs by over 20 points for the first time since 1999.
• February 28, 2014: The Suns surpassed their total number of wins from Steve Nash's last season with the team by winning 116–104 against the New Orleans Pelicans at home. Goran Dragić would also score a career high 40 points against the team in the process.
• March 1, 2014: Center Viacheslav Kravtsov is waived from the team in order for the Suns to sign
  power forward Shavlik Randolph
  for the rest of the season.
• March 4, 2014: Leandro Barbosa fractures his right hand in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers at home. As a result, he'd end up missing the rest of the regular season.
• March 12, 2014: Eric Bledsoe plays his first game of the regular season since December 30, 2013.
• March 21, 2014: The Suns win their 40th game against the Detroit Pistons in a close 98–92 victory at home. This ties the Suns' win total from the 2010–11 NBA season, which was the first season that former Suns general manager Lance Blanks and current Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby saw over the team's moves.
• March 23, 2014: The Suns win their 41st game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in a close 127–120 victory on the road, which included a 22-point comeback throughout the game. This not only gives general manager Ryan McDonough more victories in his first year as general manager of the Suns than former general manager Lance Blanks, but it also gives the Suns their first guaranteed .500+ record since the 2011–12 NBA season (or the 2009–10 NBA season in terms of full seasons).
• March 24, 2014: The Suns win their 42nd game against the Atlanta Hawks in a 102–95 victory on the road. As a result, the Suns are now guaranteed to finish off their season with a record above 0.500 for the first time since the 2009–10 NBA season.
• April 23, 2014: Goran Dragić wins the Most Improved Player of the Year Award due to his performance with the Suns throughout this season.
• May 9, 2014: The Suns officially retained exclusive rights to the
  Bakersfield Jam under a hybrid affiliation.^[2]
• May 18, 2014: Mike Elliott was named the NBA's Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year.[3]
• May 22, 2014: Goran Dragić is honored with Slovenia's own "Javbolko Navdiha" (Apple of Inspiration) award after the performances he had throughout the season with not just the Suns, but also with the
  2013 Eurobasket Tournament.^[4]
• June 4, 2014: Goran Dragić became a member of the
  All-NBA Third Team due to his overall performance throughout the season. Dragić also became the fourth overall player to make an All-NBA team after winning the Most Improved Player of the Year Award as well.^[5]

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	College
1	5	Olexsiy "Alex" Len	Center	Ukraine	Maryland
1	29	Archie Goodwin	Shooting guard	United States	Kentucky
2	57	Alex Oriakhi	Power forward	United States	Missouri

The Suns had two first-round picks and one second-round pick this year. The first pick they had was their own pick that could have gone at number 1 at best or 7 at worst, with the best odds going for the pick to be at number 5. On the day of the NBA draft lottery, it was revealed that they would get pick number 5 in the first round. Their own second-round pick was traded to the

Veteran player

One of the team's biggest signings from last season, Michael Beasley, was bought out of his contract on September 3, 2013. His buyout of the team's contract had the team paying Beasley only $4.66 million for this season as opposed to the $6 million he was initially owed (which saved the team $1.34 million in salary), and then has the team stretching his original guaranteed salary of $3,000,000 for one year to $2,300,000 for three straight seasons, with each year paying him only $766,666 instead of the entire guarantee he was owed. Because of Beasley being bought out of his contract, he was considered an unrestricted free agent by the NBA during his time of being waived. Beasley would end up signing with the team that first drafted him as the #2 pick in the 2008 NBA draft, the two-time champion Miami Heat on September 11, 2013. In addition to being signed by the Heat before the start of the regular season, some of the $4,660,000 that the Suns owed him now gets paid by the Heat instead.

On January 5, 2014, the Suns decided to bring back former fan favorite player Leandro Barbosa to a 10-day contract. However, his contract would not officially be signed until January 8 due to not only finding out whether Barbosa would be healthy enough to participate, but would also have to wait for FIBA to approve his move from Brazil to the NBA. The move was prompted due to star point guard Eric Bledsoe being out longer than the team had initially expected due to a knee injury that had later on turned into a torn meniscus that he got against his former team on December 28, 2013. The last NBA team Barbosa played for was with the Boston Celtics before an ACL tear led him to being traded to the Washington Wizards; he had then played for the Esporte Clube Pinheiros in Brazil as a means of playing while healing up from his past injury. He has been able to play under the shooting guard position with Ish Smith playing most of the back-up point guard duties while Eric Bledsoe remains injured. Barbosa would end up signing a second 10-day contract immediately after the first one ended on January 18, 2014, before being confirmed by Lon Babby and the staff that Barbosa would get $650,359 and remain on the team for the rest of the season on January 27, 2014.

During the post-trade deadline period of free agent signings, the Suns decided to waive back-up center

Trades

On June 27, the Suns agreed to trade their 30th draft pick (which became Nemanja Nedović) to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for the rights to Malcolm Lee (who they first acquired from the Minnesota Timberwolves) and the 29th pick (which became Archie Goodwin) that the Warriors first acquired from the Oklahoma City Thunder. On July 2, the Suns participated in a three-team trade that had the Suns send Jared Dudley to the Los Angeles Clippers and a 2014 second round pick they acquired from the Toronto Raptors last season to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler, both of whom last played for the L.A. Clippers. On July 27, the Suns agreed to trade Luis Scola (who the team got from amnesty bids last season) to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Gerald Green, Miles Plumlee, and a 2014 lottery protected first round draft pick.^[7] The Suns would later trade Butler to his hometown team (the Milwaukee Bucks) on August 29, 2013, in exchange for Ukrainian power forward/center Viacheslav Kravtsov and American point guard Ish Smith. Finally, in the team's last trade before the regular season began, the Suns traded their center Marcin Gortat, alongside guards Shannon Brown, Malcolm Lee, and last year's lottery pick (Kendall Marshall) to the Washington Wizards in exchange for power forward Emeka Okafor and their 2014 Top 12 protected first round draft pick on October 25, 2013. Of the players the Suns traded to Washington, only Gortat would end up playing for the Wizards before the regular season began as Marshall, Brown, and Lee were all waived by the Wizards three days later. In addition, back-up center Viacheslav Kravtsov would end up being waived from the Suns on March 1, 2014.

Coaching changes

Interim head coach

In addition to Hunter's departure as the head coach, assistant head coach Igor Kokoškov departed from the Suns to be an assistant head coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers on May 29, 2013. On June 12, it was announced that Hall of Famer Ralph Sampson would also not be an assistant coach with the Suns in 2013–14. On June 25, 2013, the Suns let go of remaining assistant coaches Noel Gillespie and Dan Panaggio. On that same day, Hornacek announced his four assistant coaches for the 2013–14 season: former Boston Celtics affiliates Jerry Sichting and Mike Longabardi, and former Suns teammates Kenny Gattison and Mark West.^[10] Jerry Sichting was a champion player for the Boston Celtics during the 1985–86 NBA season, and he was more recently an assistant head coach for the Washington Wizards last season. Mike Longabardi was an assistant head coach for the Celtics' last six seasons, which included their 2007–08 NBA champion team, and was also their defensive coordinator in his last two seasons with the Celtics. Kenny Gattison was a former 3rd round selection by the Suns in the 1986 NBA draft that also was an assistant head coach for Larry Drew during his head coaching tenure with the Atlanta Hawks. Mark West was a player for the Phoenix Suns from 1988 to 1994 and was on their 1999–2000 team before accepting a front office gig for the team afterwards until this season. Former Suns assistant head coach and Phoenix Mercury head coach Corey Gaines would also end up taking on the role of being a player developmental coach that Hunter had formerly taken the role of last season.

Front office changes

On April 22, 2013, the Phoenix Suns fired

On May 1, 2013, it was revealed that the four finalists for the job were Boston Celtics assistant general manager Ryan McDonough, Milwaukee Bucks assistant general manager Jeff Weltman, former Indiana Pacers general manager David Morway, and former Utah Jazz and New York Knicks executive/general manager and current San Antonio Spurs assistant general manager Scott Layden.^[11][12] Four days later, the finalists were narrowed down to either Jeff Weltman or Ryan McDonough being the newest general manager.^[13] Finally, on May 7, 2013, the Phoenix Suns announced that Boston's assistant general manager Ryan McDonough would be the Suns' newest general manager for the next four years.^[14] Ronnie Lester, along with the Washington Wizards' director of player personnel Pat Connelly, would later be hired by McDonough to be talent evaluators for the Suns.^[15] The Suns also hired Emilio Kovačić as an international scouting consultant for the Suns and Trevor Bukstein as an assistant general manager.^[16][17]

Roster

2013–14 Phoenix Suns roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Height Weight DOB From SG 10 Barbosa, Leandro  6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 194 lb (88 kg) 1982–11–28 Brazil PG 2 Bledsoe, Eric (C) 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 1989–12–09 Kentucky SG 25 Christmas, Dionte 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1986–09–15 Temple PG 1 Dragić, Goran (C) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1986–05–06 Slovenia PF 8 Frye, Channing 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 245 lb (111 kg) 1983–05–17 Arizona SG 20 Goodwin, Archie 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 198 lb (90 kg) 1994–08–17 Kentucky SG 14 Green, Gerald 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 210 lb (95 kg) 1986–01–26 Gulf Shores Academy (TX) C 21 Len, Alex 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) 255 lb (116 kg) 1993–06–16 Maryland SF 15 Morris, Marcus 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 235 lb (107 kg) 1989–09–02 Kansas PF 11 Morris, Markieff 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 245 lb (111 kg) 1989–09–02 Kansas PF 50 Okafor, Emeka  6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 255 lb (116 kg) 1982–09–28 Connecticut C 22 Plumlee, Miles 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 255 lb (116 kg) 1988–09–01 Duke PF 43 Randolph, Shavlik 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 236 lb (107 kg) 1983–11–24 Duke PG 3 Smith, Ish 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1988–07–05 Wake Forest SF 17 Tucker, P. J. 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 224 lb (102 kg) 1985–05–05 Texas	Head coach Jeff Hornacek (Iowa State) Assistant coach(es) Jerry Sichting (Purdue) Mike Longabardi (Frostburg State) Kenny Gattison (Old Dominion) Mark West (Old Dominion) Corey Gaines (Loyola Marymount) Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended (DL) On assignment to D-League affiliate Injured Roster Last transaction: {{{access-date}}}

Salaries

Because

• P. J. Tucker was nominated for the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
• Coach Jeff Hornacek was named the runner-up for the NBA Coach of the Year Award.
• Goran Dragić won the NBA Most Improved Player of the Year Award on April 23, 2014. Gerald Green was also a top 4 candidate and Markieff Morris was nominated for said award as well.^[19]
• Channing Frye was a top 3 nominee for the NBA Sportsmanship Award.
• Markieff Morris was a top 4 nominee for the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award.
• Goran Dragić was nominated for the NBA Most Valuable Player of the Year Award.
• New general manager Ryan McDonough was named the runner-up for the NBA Executive of the Year Award.
• Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award
  .
• Mike Elliott was named the NBA's Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year.^[3]
• 2013 EuroBasket Tournament
  (which included an All-EuroBasket Team spot) held in Slovenia.
• Both P. J. Tucker and Eric Bledsoe were considered nominees for the All-Defensive Team participation.
• All-NBA Third Team due to his overall performance throughout the regular season. He had also become only the fourth winner of the Most Improved Player of the Year Award to also find a spot on an All-NBA team on their exact same season that they first won that award (the other three being Tracy McGrady, Jermaine O'Neal, and last season's winner Paul George). He had also been the most recent Suns player since Steve Nash and Amar'e Stoudemire (or Shaquille O'Neal
  in terms of who most recently joined up for Phoenix during that time) to have been nominated for an All-NBA Team spot.

• Power forward Markieff Morris won his first ever Player of the Week award for his improved production that he created while off the bench from the week of November 4–11, 2013, by creating 22.8 points on 69.8% shooting, 8 assists, and 2 steals per game. It's also the first time since Amar'e Stoudemire
  in 2008 that a Suns player won the Western Conference's Player of the Week award.
• Coach Jeff Hornacek won his first Coach of the Month award for his 10–3 month with the Suns during December. It was also his first award as a head coach in the NBA.
• Guard Goran Dragić won his second ever Player of the Week award, as well as the first he received with the Suns by averaging 26.8 points on 63.9% shooting and 69.2% three point shooting, 6 assists, and 4 rebounds while averaging 29.2 minutes per game in all four victories during that week, with two full games having Goran recovering from an elbow injury during their road game against the Milwaukee Bucks from the week of January 27 to February 2, 2014. It is also the first time since the 2006–07 NBA season that the Suns would have more than one player winning the Player of the Week Award, with Steve Nash winning it three times and Amar'e Stoudemire winning it once during that time.^[20]

All-Star

• Taco Bell Skills Challenge
  on February 6, 2014.
• BBVA Rising Stars Challenge on February 7, 2014, after it was confirmed that Pero Antić would end up missing the event. Miles would, by default, end up playing for former Suns player Grant Hill's team, while his younger brother Mason would end up being a player for Chris Webber
  's team.

• Jeff Hornacek became the first Suns head coach to ever start out his season as a new coach with 4 wins and 0 losses at home.
• The Suns would allow the Cleveland Cavaliers only 6 points in the entire third quarter on January 26, 2014. This ties a record that the Suns would hold a team down a career-low in points during a non-overtime period (with the first two times occurring on February 28, 1999 against the Golden State Warriors and February 21, 2002 against the Memphis Grizzlies, both of which would occur in the fourth quarter).^[21]
• Ish Smith would provide the team's lowest three-point percentage of players that have attempted 20 or more three-pointers in a season.

Milestones

Team milestones

• Their 14–9 start is the best start the Suns had for the regular season in over three years.
  • Continuing their start into a 28–18 record as of January 30, 2013^[update] makes their start also the best they had since the 2007–08 season.
• During the road trip from January 25–30, 2014, they got their first road trip winning sweep since 2010.
• The Suns' 30–21 record before the
  NBA All-Star Weekend begins was the best pre-All-Star Weekend record since the 2007–08 NBA season
  .
• Leandro Barbosa surpassed center Neal Walk as the Suns' 15th best scorer of all-time on February 18, 2014. He scored his 6,011th point with a minute left in the first quarter against the Denver Nuggets on the road. The two points he scored on that shot were his only two of the night. He added two rebounds, an assist, and a steal in a close 112–107 overtime victory over Denver.
• Goran Dragic's 40 point performance on February 28, 2014, against the New Orleans Pelicans was the first time since Amar'e Stoudemire back in 2010 that a Suns player recorded 40 or more points in a single game.
• Their 41st victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves on March 23, 2014, helped make the Suns get their first .500+ season since the 2011–12 NBA season (or 2009–10 NBA season due to it being the last season with a full schedule at hand).
  • Their 42nd victory they got against the Atlanta Hawks a day later also clinched their first winning season since the 2009–10 NBA season.
• The Suns' six-game winning streak they had starting with their March 19, 2014 home victory against the Orlando Magic was the longest winning streak the team had since the end of the 2009–10 NBA season.
• Goran Dragić surpassed center and current assistant head coach Mark West as the Suns' 30th best scorer of all-time on March 28, 2014. He scored his 3,762nd point halfway in the first quarter against the New York Knicks at home. He ultimately scored 32 points (18 points in the first quarter), adding two rebounds and four assists in a blowout 112–88 victory over New York.
• Goran Dragić surpassed shooting guard Joe Johnson as the Suns' 29th best scorer of all-time on April 6, 2014. He scored his 3,848th point with 3:50 remaining in the second quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder at home. He ultimately scored 26 points in the entire game (19 points in the second quarter), adding two rebounds and five assists in a close 122–115 victory over Oklahoma City.

Injuries and personal missed games

• October 30, 2013: Markieff Morris missed out on the opening game of the regular season due to a one-game suspension related to an incident happening with Serge Ibaka during a preseason game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Emeka Okafor would also miss the entire season due to a neck injury he received during training camp with his former team, the Washington Wizards, on September 18, 2013.^[22]
• November 3, 2013: Goran Dragić injured his left ankle during a third quarter play against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He would miss three more games as a result of the injury. Olexsiy "Alex" Len would also be listed as day-by-day on his progress due to his left ankle rehabilitation. He would miss 7 games with those concerns before returning to play against the Sacramento Kings on November 19, 2013.
• November 19, 2013: Eric Bledsoe injured his left shin due to a collision with teammate P. J. Tucker during practice. He would miss six games because of it before returning to play on November 29, 2013, against the Utah Jazz.
• November 20, 2013: Olexsiy "Alex" Len re-injured his left knee after a home game against the Sacramento Kings a day after returning to play. He would miss close to two months worth of games before returning on January 7, 2014, against the Chicago Bulls.
• December 30, 2013: Eric Bledsoe swelled up his right knee in a collision play against his former team, the Los Angeles Clippers, during the third quarter. His swollen knee later on resulted in a torn meniscus, which left Bledsoe out for two months and a near fortnight. This injury helped influence the Suns to re-sign Leandro Barbosa to the team for the rest of the season. Bledsoe would finally return on March 12, 2014, at a home game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• January 15, 2014: Leandro Barbosa was out for two games due to a right shoulder sprain that he'd get after the road game against the New York Knicks. He'd return on January 19, 2014, for his first home game with the Suns in 4 years against the Denver Nuggets immediately after he signed his second 10-day contract.
• January 23, 2014:
  Bakersfield Jam, for two games. Goodwin would return to the Suns for the road game against the Cleveland Cavaliers
  on January 26, 2014.
• February 5, 2014: Archie Goodwin gets assigned to the Bakersfield Jam once again for two more games. Goodwin would return to the Suns on February 10, 2014, before the Suns played against the two-time defending champion
  All-Star Weekend
  began.
• February 21, 2014: Leandro Barbosa injured his left big toe after their 100–94 home victory against the Boston Celtics. He would miss five games in the process before returning on March 2, 2014, against the Atlanta Hawks.
• February 26, 2014: Goran Dragić injured his right ankle during the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Timberwolves. He would miss only the last road game against the Utah Jazz before coming back on February 28 against the New Orleans Pelicans.
• March 4, 2014: Miles Plumlee was out for two games due to an injured knee before coming back in a road game against the Golden State Warriors. This resulted in rookie Olexsiy "Alex" Len to be the team's starting center during their first home game against the Los Angeles Clippers, as well as their first home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder (with Len starting in place of Plumlee for the Warriors game as well before taking over the starting role for the rest of the season). Leandro Barbosa also fractured his right hand during the home game against the Clippers. As a result, Barbosa would miss the rest of his last season with the team.
• March 12, 2014: P. J. Tucker served a one-game suspension due to an on-court incident involving Blake Griffin in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
• April 11, 2014: Goran Dragić injured his right ankle during their last match-up against the New Orleans Pelicans. He missed only the last road game against the San Antonio Spurs before he came back a day later against the Dallas Mavericks.

Transactions

Trades

Free agents

Additions

Player	Signed	Former team
Dionte Christmas	Signed 2-year deal worth $1.3 million	Montepaschi Siena
Leandro Barbosa	Signed two 10-day contracts / 1-year contract worth $650,359	Boston Celtics / Washington Wizards / Esporte Clube Pinheiros / Phoenix Suns[a]
Shavlik Randolph	Signed 1-year deal worth $306,036	Foshan Dralions[b]

^ a: During this season, Barbosa played under the Esporte Clube Pinheiros in the Novo Basquete Brasil league. However, before that time, Barbosa played with the Boston Celtics up until he had a season-ending injury with the team on February 12, 2013. He then got traded to the Washington Wizards nine days later, only to never play a game for them in the process. After his first 10-day contract ended with the Suns, he signed a second 10-day contract immediately afterwards before finally staying on the team for the rest of the season on January 27, 2014.

before Randolph was signed onto the team on March 1, 2014, he did not have to worry about any penalties that might have been received from China.

Subtractions

Player	Reason left	New team
Hamed Haddadi	Waived	Foolad Mahan Isfahan / Sichuan Blue Whales / Mahram Tehran[c]
Jared Dudley	Traded	Los Angeles Clippers
Wesley Johnson	Unrestricted free agent	Los Angeles Lakers
Jermaine O'Neal	Unrestricted free agent	Golden State Warriors
Luis Scola	Traded	Indiana Pacers
Alex Oriakhi	Signed a new contract	Erie BayHawks / Sioux Falls Skyforce[d]
Diante Garrett	Unrestricted free agent	Iowa Energy / Utah Jazz[e]
Caron Butler	Traded	Milwaukee Bucks / Oklahoma City Thunder[f]
Michael Beasley	Waived	Miami Heat
Marcin Gortat	Traded	Washington Wizards
Kendall Marshall	Traded / Waived	Delaware 87ers / Los Angeles Lakers[g]
Shannon Brown	Traded / Waived	Washington Wizards / San Antonio Spurs / New York Knicks[g]
Malcolm Lee	Traded / Waived	Delaware 87ers[g]
Viacheslav "Slava" Kravtsov	Waived	Foshan Dralions[h]

Iranian Super League

on February 19, 2014 for the rest of the season.

Erie BayHawks in Erie, Pennsylvania. He'd continue to play in Erie until February 7, 2014 where he got traded to the Sioux Falls Skyforce in South Dakota. Even though Oriakhi is currently playing basketball for the Miami Heat's D-League affiliate, his NBA

rights are still retained by the Phoenix Suns.

Iowa Energy the next day (while not officially playing for either team as well) before finally playing for the Utah Jazz

on November 13, 2013.
^ f: Even though Caron Butler never played with the Suns, he still wound up being a part of the team for around 6-7 weeks before being traded to his hometown team in the Milwaukee Bucks. Butler would continue to end up playing for the Bucks until he got waived on February 27, 2014. He'd end up signing onto the Oklahoma City Thunder four days later on March 1, 2014.

Delaware 87ers in the D-League on November 3, 2014, before returning with the 76ers on December 5, 2014 to play an official game for them before being waived six days later when the 76ers traded Brandon Davies to the Brooklyn Nets for Andrei Kirilenko, Jorge Gutiérrez

, and a 2020 second round pick (he'd end up playing with the 87ers again two days later and remained there until January 30, 2015).

Foshan Long-Lions by the time Kravtsov signed with them) of the Chinese Basketball Association (which coincidentally enough was his replacement's

former team before signing with the Suns late in the season).

See also

• 2013–14 NBA season

References

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