mobile app bar

Following Kevin Durant’s ‘Real Struggles’ With Suns Offense, Shams Charania Reveals Frank Vogel’s Exit on the Cards

Shubham Singh
Published

Following Kevin Durant's 'Real Struggles' With Suns Offense, Shams Charania Reveals Frank Vogel's Exit On the Cards

For the second straight season, Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns faced an early exit in the playoffs. After the failure, many have started contemplating the roster and coaching changes. In this wake, Shams Charania dropped a bombshell about the Suns potentially replacing their current head coach Frank Vogel. As per him, Kevin Durant was unsatisfied with Vogel’s offensive schemes. He complained about being relegated to the corner which limited his participation.

On the ‘Run It Back’ pod, the NBA insider relayed that the Arizona-based franchise may look beyond Vogel for the 2024-25 season,

Sources tell me the Suns will consider a coaching change, at the very least, adjustment to Frank Vogel’s coaching style.”

The insider went into Suns’ owner Matt Ishbia’s money splurge that sought to open the floodgates for a championship. However, after a first-round sweep, he will potentially look for wholesale coaching changes. The 2020 champion coach just finished the first year of his five-year/$31 million contract. Thus, bringing in a new coach will further hit the finances.

However, KD is seeking a change in the offensive game plan after Vogel preferred running things through Bradley Beal and Devin Booker as he stood watching in the corner.

Kevin Durant had real issues with the offense, the way it was ran, him feeling like he was relegated to being in the corner watching Pick and Rolls by Devin Booker, by Bradley Beal,” Charania added.


While the coaching change may help, the 30-year-old insider pointed out that the Suns lacked the leadership. At any rate, it was the destructive power of Anthony Edwards that killed the Suns’ season.

Kevin Durant acknowledged Anthony Edwards

ANT was talking trash to Durant throughout the first-round series. He wanted to tell the 2x Finals MVP that the “future is now” and the old guard must make way for the young blood. Despite Edwards’ constant trash talk, he and Durant shared an elongated hug after the Suns were eliminated in Game 4. During the post-game conference, Durant couldn’t help but admire the 22-year-old for his incredible growth. He dubbed ANT as his “favorite player in the league”,

He’s 22. His love for the game, he shines bright, and that’s one of the reasons I like him the most, it’s because he loves basketball. He’s grateful to be in this position, he’s taken advantage of every opportunity he’s got. Love everything about Ant, everything,” Durant praised Edwards.

Mandatory Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn-USA TODAY Sports

At any rate, the 35-year-old forward will have some tough decisions during the 2024 offseason. Things haven’t worked out for the elite scorer, since he left the Warriors in the 2019 off-season. Despite pairing up with multiple superstars, he hasn’t found the magic akin to his glorious Warriors’ runs. 

Post Edited By:Hitesh Nigam

About the author

Shubham Singh

Shubham Singh

linkedin-icon

Shubham Singh is an NBA Journalist at SportsRush. He found his passion in Writing when he couldn't fulfil his dream of playing professional basketball. Shubham is obsessed with box scores and also loves to keep track of advanced stats and is, particularly, fond of writing CoreSport analytical pieces. In the league, his all time favorites were 80s Bad Boys, Pistons, while Dennis Rodman and his enthralling rebounding made him love the game more. It also made him realize that the game is much more than fancy scoring and playmaking. Shubham is also a huge fan of cricket and loves to watch all forms of women sports.

Share this article