Evaluating Suns' Return in Kevin Durant Trade

At 23 years old, Green is a very up-and-down player and struggled mightily in the playoffs, but he has shortage of talent, averaging 21 points this past season with some highlight-reel plays throughout the year.

The addition of Green likely signals the end of Beal's time on the Suns, which has been highly expected if Phoenix can find a way to buy him out or trade him given the two years, over $110 million remaining and no-trade clause in Beal's contract.

Beal and Green both play a similar style, and it has become very apparent that Beal does not fit with the Suns, so we will see if Green can find a way to integrate himself alongside Booker, but he does have a lot more room to grow given his age.

Green's rookie extension kicks in next season, and he will be on the first year of a three-year, $105.3 million deal.

The 29-year-old Brooks is a big get in terms of setting a new culture and identity that Suns owner Mat Ishbia wants to establish. He is a very polarizing player that opponents and fans do not like to play against, but Phoenix and Suns fans will now get to experience what it is like to have him on their team's roster.

Brooks and Ryan Dunn could form a very strong defense on the wings alongside Booker.

Brooks is entering year three of a four-year, $86 million contract and is due just north of $21 million next year.

With Green and Brooks coming over, the Suns' current top-seven highest-paid players next year are all now shooting guards or small forwards who are 6-foot-4, 6-foot-5 or 6-foot-6 - Beal, Booker, Green, Brooks, Grayson Allen, Royce O'Neale and Cody Martin (non-guaranteed) - which makes for obvious concerns.

Phoenix did noticeably miss out on acquiring a lot of young talent from Houston, which includes Jabari Smith Jr., Tari Eason and Reed Sheppard, at the end of all of this. It was presumed Phoenix was waiting for Houston to include at least one of these players in the deal.

The Suns also did not end up with a center in return for Durant, which according to multiple reports, was a position they coveted.

With that said, there are still several holes left to fill on the roster, but Phoenix now has draft picks and other tradeable players to try to address those needs.

Beal, O'Neale, Allen and Cody Martin are all trade candidates for the Suns that they can use to plug in the other gaps on their roster.

As of now, Green, Booker, Brooks, Dunn and Nick Richards figure to be the starting five on paper next season, starting a new era of Suns basketball that this trade suggests will feature a lot of youth and defensive-minded players around Booker and Green for the future.