Last season, Phoenix was again playoff-bound but nowhere near the top tier of NBA future odds favorites in the Western Conference. So far, the 2024-25 season has been one of red ink for the Phoenix Suns, who are struggling to gain a play-in spot for the 2025 NBA playoffs. The Suns have had a stunning fall after taking a 2-0 lead in the 2021 NBA Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks. However, they lost the series in the next four games. That 2-0 lead proved to be the peak of the Suns since they made the 1993 NBA Finals.
2025 Phoenix Suns NBA Betting Information
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Phoenix Suns Key Players and Coach
Head coach Mike Budenholzer is best known for leading the Milwaukee Bucks to the 2021 NBA championship. Coach Bud is a 21-time NBA coach of the year. At the onset of the season, his career Sports betting record was 484-317 in the regular season and 56-48 in the playoffs. Specifically at Milwaukee, he never had a season win percentage below .622.
SG Devin Booker added 27.1 points and 6.9 assists per contest last year. So far this year, Booker is averaging 26.1 points and 6.7 assists per game. Booker is a 4-time NBA All-Star.
PF Kevin Durant led the Suns with 27.1 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 5.0 assists per game last year. Durant is a 2-time NBA champion and a 2-time NBA Finals MVP. He is a 15-time NBA All-Star, including this year, and was the 2014 NBA MVP. He was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. So far this season, Durant is averaging 26.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game.
Phoenix Suns Team Overview
Of major concern to gamblers was the terrible value offered by the Suns. And that has continued this year.
In sum, Phoenix’s NBA metrics rank 14th for scoring offense, 9th for field goal percentage, 4th for 3-point field goal percentage, 5th for free throw percentage, and 25th for offensive rebounding. While on defense, the Suns rank 18th for scoring defense, 13th for field goal percentage permitted, 16th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 22nd for defensive rebounding.
At the All-Star break, the Phoenix Suns are 25-24 straight up, 17-31-1 against the spread, and 24-23-2 over/under the NBA playoff odds total. Overall, Phoenix is 10th in the Western Conference playoff standings. Phoenix is 14.5 games behind the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference playoff race.
Phoenix Suns Team History
Phoenix only made the playoffs once in its first seven years. However, the 1976 Phoenix Suns made it to the NBA Finals despite going 42-40 in the regular season.
Phoenix was a competitive team throughout the 1990s, too, making it to the postseason in 13 straight seasons from 1989 to 2001. Phoenix dealt Jeff Hornacek and two role players to the Philadelphia 76ers for Charles Barkley. In turn, the Suns went on to make just their second NBA Finals appearance. Dan Majerle, Kevin Johnson, and Barkley did their best to take down the Chicago Bulls, but they fell in six games.
In his four years as head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Mike D’Antoni helped modernize basketball. To show, D’Antoni stressed an up-tempo pace with a ton of shots, and he found the perfect player to run the offense in two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash. These teams were loaded with talent as Shawn Marion, Joe Johnson, and Amar’e Stoudemire joined Nash. However, they could never get past the San Antonio Spurs.