The Phoenix Suns find themselves in Bean Town tomorrow night, set to play the Boston Celtics. You remember them, right? The team that dismantled the Suns a week ago in Phoenix, stomping the yard with them en route to a 30-point win?
As the Suns fight for their right, not to party, but just to make the damn Play-In, they’re staring down a monster. The Boston Celtics, a 56-20 wrecking crew sitting pretty with the second seed in the East, aren’t exactly the team you want to see when your season is hanging by a thread. To make things even spicier, Kevin Durant is out, nursing a sprained ankle courtesy of Sunday’s clash with Houston. He didn’t even make the trip. So, yeah. The task ahead just went from brutal to borderline sadistic.
Will the team have some assistance from Bradley Beal in this one? The guy who has been out since March 16 with hamstring issues? Will he be able to help Devin Booker n’ the Boyz as they try to slay the Celtics, knowing that a win will help them get closer to the 10th seed in the Western Conference, currently occupied by the Sacramento Kings?
In short? Yes.
Bradley Beal is not on the injury report for the Suns game vs. Boston
— John Voita, III (@DarthVoita) April 3, 2025
The Suns will need all of the help they can get.
Beal has underwhelmed this season as he has played in 48 of the Suns’ 76 games (63%). He’s averaged 17.3 points, his lowest since 2014-15, adding 3.6 assists and 3.4 rebounds. And his plus/minus? -236.
But the Suns are gasping for help anywhere they can get it.
Their last outing? A 10-point loss to the Bucks, a team that coughed up the ball 20 times and still walked away grinning. The real gut punch? Phoenix’s defense — if you can even call it that — let Milwaukee torch them, hitting an absurd 68.9% of their shots. Beal might not be a defensive savior, but at this point, even a pulse on offense could help. If nothing else, he’s got a shot at throwing a spark into a team that’s looking more and more like a flickering candle in a hurricane.
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