AUGUST 9: The Suns have officially announced the return of reserve center/power forward Frank Kaminsky.
AUGUST 5: Free agent big man Frank Kaminsky has agreed to return to the Suns on a one-year deal, his agents Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman tell Marc Stein (Twitter link). Kaminsky’s one-year deal will be worth the veteran’s minimum, tweets John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7.
Kaminsky, 28, first joined the Suns for the 2019/20 season after four years in Charlotte. He signed with Sacramento during the 2020 offseason, but was released by the Kings at the end of the preseason and was claimed off waivers by the Suns, resulting in him spending another season in Phoenix.
Kaminsky appeared in 47 regular season games for the Suns in 2020/21, averaging 6.6 PPG, 4.0 RPG, and 1.7 APG with a shooting line of .471/.365/.617. He wasn’t in the club’s regular playoff rotation, making 10 appearances and logging just 6.8 minutes per contest.
With Dario Saric in danger of missing the entire 2021/22 season due to a torn ACL, there’s a viable path to play regular minutes for Kaminsky. Newcomer JaVale McGee and second-year big man Jalen Smith will be among the other reserves vying for playing time in the frontcourt, but Kaminsky’s ability to space the floor will make him a better fit in certain lineups.
He is no longer Frank the Tank
He is Frank the Finals
Suns need 3 and D like Craig in the bench
Johnson can’t play D
Sure, after playing a total of 27 minutes during the Finals.
He will be an enormous downgrade from Saric for them next season.
Did you watch the Suns in the playoffs at all? Cam Johnson’s defense was great.
This guy is not good
I don’t like this. They would be better to let Jalen cut his teeth. Frank looked terrible last year.
Chill people. He’s the third center just like last year and will be even further down the list if Dario comes back playoff time.
I don’t understand the hate for Frank. He does just fine at what he’s asked to do. Solid player.
Frank the tank deserved a 50 million over 3 years at the least, he’s a great role player who pitches in on offense while being one of the elite under the radar defenders. Clearly the nba has something against tanks
Frank is a good shooter for a big. He was a scorer in college. But in Finals it’s like he Feared the Deer.
Needs to get going, shoot the ball Frank.
Well, amazing first them to be able to keep him at that price, just like hiw they got him back from Sacramenti for free last year…
Damn, really wish the Heat would have given him some of their exception money.
If he would have played more in the finals, Phoenix would have won
Agree. They lost partly because they did not play him. Should have been deployed vs Giannis more often instead of them just getting victimized constantly. I never saw the supposed deer-in-headlights look and I wonder if Jalen Rose did, or was just making light of Kaminsky’s look like happens with Portis.
Pat Ewing said it first about EdK, when he was a rookie.
Kaminski has a full game including handling, but it is hard to get that going and integrated as a backup.
I’m not aware of what Jalen Rose said b/c I stopped watching espn a long time ago…
Once Milwaukee finally stopped using Brook Lopez so much in the matchup after game 2, Ayton became a liability, and he played more minutes than ever.
Man I’m typoing and auto correcting all over the place…brutal lol