Why is shannon brown benched

A source with the Phoenix Suns has confirmed that the team allowed the deadline to pass without action, which guarantees Brown's entire salary.

With Jared Dudley still under contract and P. Tucker likely to be kept the Suns have until Monday night to guarantee his K , the Suns now have no less than five players to man the shooting guard position in Both are guaranteed contracts of about K each for next season. Malcolm Lee, a defense-oriented shooting guard who has not been able to stay healthy, is on the final year of his rookie deal.

Only Jared Dudley and Archie Goodwin are guaranteed contracts beyond next season. Dudley and Tucker can slide to small forward easily, but Michael Beasley and Marcus Morris already get minutes at that position. If he is not headed to Orlando for Dwight Howard , then he is on his way to the bottom of the Western Conference. James may have faced the monkey on his back on a bigger stage, but at least in other areas of the playoffs he was of use. Gasol was embarrassing to the cause the Lakers had fought so hard to conquer after the All-Star break and the train wreck lasted for miles.

Personal or professional issues aside, athletes get paid to block everything but the game out when they are on the hardwood. He is L. The white swan exposed himself to the world and has a lot of people questioning whether or not the Gasol that mattered was in purple and gold or Memphis Midnight Blue.

Shannon Brown , who officially opted out of his contract and became a free agent yesterday, has the ability to handle himself as a shooting guard in the league. His spotty shot selection needs to be addressed, but what he lacks in court intelligence he makes up for with pure athletic ability.

Not only is he ready to play a bigger role on another team, but he can tell how ill-fated the organization is before it can truly recover. Brown is not wasting his time any longer. He wants what is coming to him in the form of a bigger paycheck and mention. He tossed it to the team hamper, collected his things, and left the arena as professional as one could be in this situation.

That is what Brown is trying to do, exhibit professionalism as he has become the casualty of a losing season. Right now he is marred in the battle of being a professional while sitting out, watching what he loves happen right in front of him day-in-and-day-out.

It is equivalent to going home one day and having your significant other tell you that thing you love the most It is something that you are now not able to do. But you can watch from a safe distance as others do it right in-front of you. That had some logic behind it with a losing season, but it was delivered to Bassy the same way. With no explanation. He dunks! I might have 30 or 40 points in high school , but I probably had like one or two dunks.

If you're gonna do it, you might as well do it right and be the best at it. Don't just do it to do it. Conquer it. Conquering basketball also meant conquering physical gifts that, like Spiderman's, occasionally doubled as his curse.

Those same hands coveted by many of Brown's peers created an obstacle in developing as an all-around threat. Absurdly wide palms may provide ridiculous strength gripping the rock while elevating through traffic, but they're not necessarily the ideal conduit for ball handling and soft English on a release. Sometimes I really don't realize it until I'm watching myself on TV. Not to mention avoiding the pitfalls of the streets. I chose to go to the gym.

Basketball, honors taking him to Michigan State University. As a junior, Despite his success, Brown often felt "restricted," discouraged to do certain things on the court and reminded to "wait his turn. In college, I really couldn't dribble, I guess. But the one thing I did, I was aggressive, and that got me over the hump a little bit until I started to need those skills. It wasn't the first time he'd crossed paths with LeBron James - Shannon placed second to The King in a legendary high school dunk competition - but this time around, the two were on anything but equal footing.

Brown played in just 23 games as a rookie at fewer than nine minutes a pop, averaging a scant 3. That campaign, featuring frequent time on the inactive list, DNP-CD's and a brief D-League stint, set a tone for his uphill professional climb. PT during his second season grew so sporadic he actually requested a Rio Grande Valley Vipers assignment to get some run.

The Cavs declining his third-year option made showcase opportunities a must, and the situation grew more dire after a trade to the Chicago Bulls, where Brown appeared in a grand total of six games for a combined 22 minutes.