Another bad deal! The Suns cut off the forward player who just joined the team?

According to the report of ClutchPoints, league sources revealed that the Phoenix Suns will not choose to convert the contract worth $8.6 million in forward player Cody Martin into a guaranteed contract in the 2025-26 season, which also makes Martin a complete free agent.

Before this year's trading deadline, the Suns completed a deal with the Charlotte Hornets, and the Hornets sent Martin, Vasilije Micic, a 2026 first round swap and a second round pick to the Suns, and got Jusuf Nurkic from the Suns. After joining the Suns, Martin played 14 games in the NBA regular season, averaging 14.7 minutes per game, averaging 3.7 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 0.9 steals, and 0.4 blocks. He also had 0.6 turnovers and 1.6 fouls. His shooting percentage was 35.1%, 11.1% from three-point shooting percentage and 75% from free throws.

Martin's performance after joining the Suns can be said to be a mess. His offensive efficiency is a mess. His three-point shooting percentage is terrible. His performance on the offensive end is completely disaster-level. Martin can indeed play a certain role on the defensive end, but his negative impact on the team on the offensive end is also too obvious. Martin's performance after joining the team is far from everyone's expectations, and his playing time is also very unstable. Martin signed a four-year contract with the Hornets in the summer of 2022, with a total amount of $31.36 million, and his contract will be $8.68 million next season, which is a non-guaranteed nature. Taking Martin's performance after joining the Sun and combined with the Sun's current salary level, it is also conceivable and reasonable for the Sun to choose not to convert this contract into a guarantee contract.

Just the problem is that Martin is the most valuable (probably the only valuable chip) in the Nurkic trade. As a result, after only more than four months, the Suns gave up Martin directly, and the other trading chips, Misic and the first round swap rights are basically unlikely to be realized. It is equivalent to the Suns only using Nurkic to exchange for a second round pick, which is simply outrageous. In order to improve their strength, the Suns are constantly making various adjustments to the lineup. However, from the team's record, we can also intuitively feel that their transactions have not had a substantial effect, and it can even be said that they are getting worse and worse as they change. Martin was also quite unlucky. He was traded to the Sun and performed such a bad performance in the Sun. I don’t know what fate will be waiting for him in the next free market.