{"id":856434,"date":"2026-08-15T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856434\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:26:08","slug":"dillon-brooks-remains-hungry-after-signing-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856434\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks Remains Hungry After Signing Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dillon Brooks<\/a> signed<\/a> a three-year, fully guaranteed $73MM extension a week ago. The Suns forward told the Arizona Republic\u2019s Duane Rankin<\/a> that it was a product of his work ethic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat always keeps my engine going, and I\u2019ve seen around the NBA, when I was coming up, that sometimes the money makes you content and just makes you sit in your spot,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cYou\u2019re good and you don\u2019t need to get better, but I\u2019ve learned over the years as well is that the NBA just keeps getting better with the young talent. If you take a year off from how you got to your money, then someone else is coming to come take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooks had a career year as a scorer last season, his first with the club after coming over from the Rockets in the\u00a0Kevin Durant<\/a>\u00a0trade<\/a>. He averaged 20.2 points on 17.1 shots per game, both career highs, and helped establish a tough-minded mindset for a team looking to reestablish its culture following Durant\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Brooks\u2019 extension runs through the 2029\/30 season. Brooks will be eligible to be moved at the\u00a0February 11 trade deadline<\/a>\u00a0if the team decides to go that route.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s more from Rankin\u2019s interview with Brooks:<\/p>\n

Brooks wants to improve his perimeter shooting and distributing skills. He made 34.4% of his 3-point attempts last season. \u201cI lacked, I didn\u2019t really lack, I shot it OK, the 3-ball,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to add a separation 3-point shot to keep the defense honest. Get a little higher and tighter on me so I can get to the paint and get to the shots I really like. Passing. BG (GM Brian Gregory) told me I got to work on passing. I\u2019ve been working on that.\u201d
\nHe\u2019s excited about the offseason additions of Miles Bridges<\/a> and Luke Kennard<\/a>. \u201cWe added some shooting, some spacing with both of those guys, and then some athleticism as well,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can interchange lineups. Miles helps that, acquiring him, we get a little bit more youthful. I\u2019m excited. Can\u2019t wait to start. I\u2019ve been cooped up in Toronto, but I can\u2019t wait to start getting it going again.\u201d
\nHe had no desire to hit the free agent market next offseason after an enjoyable first season with Phoenix. \u201cIt was good,\u201d Brooks said of the extension talks. \u201cGreat, long conversations. I think (Gregory and CEO Josh Bartelstein), you know, planned out something that is going to be for the long term and I wanted to be here for a long term. So, whatever it was, I was going to accept it and be a Phoenix Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks signed a three-year, fully guaranteed $73MM extension a week ago. The Suns forward told the Arizona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,247695,20447,426658,12843,207815,590,85],"class_list":["post-856434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brian-gregory","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-josh-bartelstein","tag-luke-kennard","tag-miles-bridges","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856434","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=856434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}