Phoenix Suns
2023-24When several roster decisions share a planning window, where do basketball, roster, reported salary, cap, trade, exception and draft constraints overlap?
PHX has 1 multi-player planning windows and 8 fully enumerated conditional branch combinations. Overlap counts identify review pressure, not preferred outcomes.
Drew Eubanks + Eric Gordon + Josh Okogie
A planning window — decisions sharing a staff planning date, never a claimed simultaneous deadline.PHX has 3 actionable player decisions sharing the 2024-06-29 planning anchor. All 8 bounded branch combinations are enumerated for stress testing, but the anchor is not claimed as an exact simultaneous contract deadline.
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Two combinations side by side — differences, not a verdict.| A — keeps 3, exits 0 | B — keeps 2, exits 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Branches | Exercise option ×3 | Decline option ×1 · Exercise option ×2 |
| Basketball | 3 supported dependence case(s) | 3 supported dependence case(s) |
| Roster spots | 3 stay occupied | 2 stay occupied · 1 may open |
| Reported salary | 3 retained ($11.3M) | 2 retained ($6.31M) · 1 with unknown salary effect |
| Current cap context | Second apron pressure review triggered | Second apron pressure review triggered |
| Trade / execution | Simultaneous execution not claimed | Simultaneous execution not claimed |
| Exception reference | 0 visible · 3 withheld | 0 visible · 3 withheld |
| Draft capital | 0 visible · 3 withheld | 0 visible · 3 withheld |
Neither combination is a recommendation. Clear comparison
Scenario explorer
Every enumerated combination, grouped by what it does to the roster. None is recommended.Retain or continue all1 combination
PHX scenario 0 keeps or continues 3 decisions and exits or defers 0. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Exercise option ×3
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
Mixed keep-and-exit combination6 combinations
PHX scenario 1 keeps or continues 2 decisions and exits or defers 1. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×1 · Exercise option ×2
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
PHX scenario 2 keeps or continues 2 decisions and exits or defers 1. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×1 · Exercise option ×2
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
PHX scenario 3 keeps or continues 1 decisions and exits or defers 2. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×2 · Exercise option ×1
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
PHX scenario 4 keeps or continues 2 decisions and exits or defers 1. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×1 · Exercise option ×2
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
PHX scenario 5 keeps or continues 1 decisions and exits or defers 2. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×2 · Exercise option ×1
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
PHX scenario 6 keeps or continues 1 decisions and exits or defers 2. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×2 · Exercise option ×1
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
Exit or defer everything1 combination
PHX scenario 7 keeps or continues 0 decisions and exits or defers 3. It exposes overlapping planning work, not a recommended or legally executable roster plan.
Decline option ×3
Constraint lanes and evidence gaps
- Exact decision timing unresolved
- Salary consequence incomplete
- Current exception wallet unavailable
- Draft control or tradability incomplete
- Combined cba legality unresolved
- Scenario probability not estimated
- Basketball outcome not evaluated
What the scenarios cannot prove
Where the constraint lanes refuse a conclusion across these scenarios.Shared planning anchors are staff workflow dates, not automatically exact simultaneous contract deadlines.
All bounded branch combinations are enumerated; none is assigned a probability or recommendation.
Player-specific possessions and ratings are not summed across players.
Only directly reported option salary is added across decisions.
Every scenario needs a new dated cap, roster, trade and CBA execution test.
Prior exception receipts are reference evidence, not the scenario wallet.
Scenario branches do not alter pick ownership or prove tradability.
Team-season counts summarize conditional branch-space coverage. They are not probabilities, rankings, cap projections, legal opinions or front-office grades.