{"id":495538,"date":"2026-02-28T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:48:08","slug":"sources-suns-waive-cole-anthony-three-weeks-after-deadline-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495538\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Suns waive Cole Anthony three weeks after deadline trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 27, 2026, 04:18 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> have waived guard <a data-player-guid=\"390cbbeb-9761-1174-69a8-831a5b201127\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432809\/cole-anthony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Anthony<\/a>, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, the No. 15 pick in the 2020 NBA draft, averaged 6.7 points in 35 games for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f59bbabc-eedb-9ad2-c5dd-9bcd9f450a2f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> this season before being moved to Phoenix at the trade deadline in a three-team deal involving the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e588ccf1-ba03-ea43-c34c-9a9c8d1895ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>. He did not appear in a game for the Suns before his release.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old was also part of last June&#8217;s blockbuster deal between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mem\/memphis-grizzlies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memphis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando<\/a> that sent Grizzlies star <a data-player-guid=\"10c8715d-6e1c-40de-59cb-625bf16ebbc7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066320\/desmond-bane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Desmond Bane<\/a> to the Magic for Anthony, <a data-player-guid=\"171eb159-a032-0148-a7ab-946354f6991a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2581018\/kentavious-caldwell-pope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kentavious Caldwell-Pope<\/a>, four unprotected first-round picks and one first-round pick swap,<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, now in his sixth NBA season, averaged 12.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.8 rebounds in five seasons with the Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 27, 2026, 04:18 PM ET The Phoenix Suns have waived guard Cole Anthony, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-495538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}