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Insider Downplays Suns Trade Rumors Involving Jalen Green, Dejounte Murray

PHOENIX -- After a rocky start to the season, trade rumors have been swirling around Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green over the past couple of days. The noise got even louder Friday when New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray requested a trade, anddifferent reports indicated mutual interest between the Suns and Murray. However, Arizona Sports' John Gambadoro reported on X that Phoenix has not been talking with New Orleans as of right now. "The Phoenix Suns have had no conversations with the New Orleans Pelicans regarding Dejounte Murray at this time," Gambadoro said. "They have not checked in with them and are not calling around. The thought of trading for a PG had a lot to do with unlocking the best version of Devin Booker but Book has played some of his best basketball in years last 4-5 games and the Suns have won 4 of 5. Plus Collin Gillespie would likely be the starter if they ever made a change unless it was for a proven veteran. "The Suns biggest problem is defensive rebounding right now not point guard. The connection between Murray's agent Rich Paul and Mat Ishbia is the main reason this has come up. They are friends and Paul has several clients on Phoenix. This is not to say the Suns won't explore trading Jalen Green at some point but I would expect that would be down the road." The Phoenix Suns have had no conversations with the New Orleans Pelicans regarding Dejounte Murray at this time. They have not checked in with them and are not calling around The thought of trading for a PG had a lot to do with unlocking the best version of Devin Booker but Book…

Astros Star Gets Surprise MVP Votes as Yordan Alvarez Wins First Award

Astros third baseman Isaac Paredes received a few surprising MVP votes finishing in 20th place in the American League MVP voting that was won by fellow Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez. MVP voters are asked to rank MVP candidates first through 10th. First place receives 14 points, and the players ranked two through 10 receive between nine and one points respectively. Paredes earned two 10th place votes which tied him with Cade Smith of the Guardians with two points. Each team has two media representatives on the voting board run by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) bringing the total to 30 voters for each award. Alvarez, for instance, received all 30 first place votes for a unanimous 420 points. Dave Skretta who represents the Kansas City Chapter (Royals) and writes for the Associated Press gave Paredes his 10th place slot along with DFW Chapter (Rangers) member Kennedi Landry who writes for MLB.com. Houston Astros third baseman Isaac Paredes (15) Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images | IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Paredes posted the second-best season of his career by bWAR with a 4.1 WAR output narrowly lower than his 4.2 output in 2023 with Tampa Bay. Parades played in a career high number of games played with 155. He also posted career highs in hits and times on base, Paredes' strikeout numbers have come down from where they were in his time with Chicago and Tampa Bay. In 2023 and 2024, he struck out in 18.2% and 16.4% of plate appearances. He lowered that to 13.4% in a large sample size in this latest season.