{"id":470408,"date":"2026-02-10T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:40:10","slug":"suns-expected-to-waive-cole-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470408\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns Expected To Waive Cole Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Suns are expected to waive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/anthoco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-09_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cole Anthony<\/a>, according to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Gambo987\/status\/2020996436692025488\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-463968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cole-Anthony-vert1-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\"  \/>Phoenix acquired the sixth-year guard in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/02\/bucks-trading-anthony-coffey-to-suns-for-richards-hayes-davis.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-team trade<\/a> last week. It was a salary-dump move for the the Suns, who have several guards on their roster.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony has yet to report to the team and may not end up doing so; head coach Jordan Ott <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/02\/suns-notes-anthony-coffey-booker-green-allen-livers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on Saturday<\/a> that the two sides were still working through the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re still determining that. Working through that as we speak,\u201d Ott said.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th overall pick in the 2020 draft, Anthony spent his first five NBA seasons with Orlando, averaging 12.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists on .419\/.345\/.847 shooting in 320 games (24.8 minutes per contest). However, his minutes have declined over the past few years and he was traded to Memphis in the offseason as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/banede01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-09_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Desmond Bane<\/a> blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony reached a buyout agreement with the Grizzlies and signed a one-year, minimum-salary contract with the Bucks. He averaged 6.7 PPG, 2.5 RPG and 3.5 APG on .424\/.306\/.615 shooting in a career-low 15.1 minutes per game in 35 appearances with Milwaukee this season.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony is still just 25 years old and has been productive in the past, though he\u2019s never been the most efficient scorer (his true shooting percentage is a career-low 48.3% in 2025\/26). Teams looking for backup ball-handling help might give him a look if and when he officially parts ways with Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns are expected to waive Cole Anthony, according to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 (Twitter link).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,15925,85],"class_list":["post-470408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-cole-anthony","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}