NBA Daily: Looking Back on Phoenix's Unlikely Playoff Path

The year is 2019. The NBA season had just concluded, and with it, the Phoenix Suns stretched their playoff drought to nine seasons. There were some reasons for hope scattered across those years, but the team was coming off firing its fifth head coach in that span of nine years. From Alvin Gentry to Igor Kokoskov, the Suns just couldn't seem to find the answer to their head coach conundrum. And then came Monty Williams.