Joe Johnson says the Suns would 'at least have one title' if he'd stayed in Phoenix

Joe Johnson, aka "Iso Joe", joined Team Whistle for the latest installment of "Cheat Day" and the former NBA All-Star used his day off to stroll down memory lane.

The conversation took Johnson all the way back to his college days at Arkansas before he was drafted by the Boston Celtics at No. 10 overall in 2001. In 2002, he was traded to the Phoenix Suns. Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash joined the team ahead of the 2004-05 season, but Johnson was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in August 2005.

"If I'd stayed with the Phoenix Suns, we'd at least have one title," Johnson said on "Cheat Day." "That haunts me as well because that's probably the only time I really felt that I really had a real chance to win a championship, so yeah, that's a tough one."

The Suns made playoff runs from Johnson's final season in Phoenix through 2010, making it as far as the Western Conference Finals three times, but the franchise has yet to claim a championship.

The 39-year-old stayed in Atlanta through the 2011-12 campaign and earned six of his seven All-Star nods as a Hawk. The last few years of his career were more scattered: Brooklyn Nets (2012-16), Miami Heat (2016), Utah Jazz (2016-18) and Houston Rockets (2018).

Johnson last played in the NBA for the Rockets in May 2018, then was the MVP of BIG3—Ice Cube's professional 3-on-3 basketball league—during summer 2019. That led to a partially guaranteed one-year deal with the Detroit Pistons, but a potential comeback was stunted when the team waived him in late October.

Don't worry, though. Johnson still believes he has what it takes to play with the best of them. "Would I have to adjust my game to play in today's game? No," he said. "My game fits perfectly in today's model." But he is willing to give credit where it's due: "Steph (Curry)'s the best shooter of all time. There's not a question. He's gonna rewrite the record books."

Watch the full episode below for more tidbits from the sharpshooter, including his Mount Rushmore of all-time NBA players.