{"id":185758,"date":"2025-10-02T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185758\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:30:08","slug":"jalen-suggs-says-he-and-desmond-bane-can-be-the-best-backcourt-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185758\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Suggs says he and Desmond Bane can be the best backcourt in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jalen Suggs can\u2019t contain his hype over the idea of pairing up with Desmond Bane in the backcourt.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t easy to put them together.<\/p>\n

Four firsts, a pick swap, and two rotation players later, the Orlando Magic made the biggest splash of the summer that didn’t involve Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n

Bane answers Orlando\u2019s prayers without forcing the defensive culture to bend.<\/p>\n

If anything, Bane could be such a complementary piece to the Magic’s puzzle that he ends up impacting winning habits to both ends, emboldening a perennial top-4 defense while shoring up the offense’s most glaring holes.<\/p>\n

When I asked Jalen Suggs about his instant reaction to the trade and if he\u2019s talked to Bane about building that defensive identity in the backcourt as the NBA’s toughest duo, Jalen had this to say:<\/p>\n

Jalen Suggs on Desmond Bane:<\/p>\n

“When we get to mesh… everyone who follows basketball will see why me and Bane can be \u2013 greedy talk \u2013 the best backcourt in the NBA, because of how well-verse we are in every aspect; we either are elite, or we cover for each other.”@SwishTheory<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/2NtrLxq9qt<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of great conversations to be honest. He\u2019s especially been around this last month in the building, which I have been as well. So it\u2019s created a lot of great space for us to be around, have conversations, both about basketball obviously because we\u2019re in here working out and have got to be enjoying workouts together and really get the feel of being on the court with each other a bit. <\/p>\n

But really what I\u2019ve cherished the most so far, outside of seeing him play in the runs here and be an absolute dawg, talk the most smack in the building, which I was talking on the sideline, I wasn\u2019t even playing, he was turning me up!<\/p>\n

But just our conversations about life, about where he\u2019s come from, all the trials that he\u2019s faced, how he\u2019s gotten to this point in his career, being able to share vice-versa the things I hold true to my heart, close to my heart, the things that make me who I am, the people that make me who I am, getting to share that side of everything is how you truly create chemistry, that connection to where on the court I can trust Des fully, because I know Des, and Des can trust me 100% because he knows who Jalen Suggs is.<\/p>\n

I think when we get to mesh that, as time passes, as we continue to play, as the season evolves and goes on, I think the league, everyone who follows basketball, will continue to see why not only was that one of the best acquisitions of the summer, why me and Bane can be one of \u2013 greedy talk \u2013 the best backcourt in the NBA, because of how well-verse we are in every aspect; we either are elite, or we cover for each other in where we are elite. And yeah, so I\u2019m very excited to get hooping with him along with everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Jalen Suggs<\/p>\n

With Suggs taking time to return from injury, it will take some time to see if he’s right. But if he is, the Magic has a chance to come out of the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n

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