Insider FLEX from Jersey Talks Suns, Playoff Run<br />Flex is an extraordinarily influential member of the Phoenix Suns fandom, and he graciously sat down for a Q&A.<br />Not many know the Phoenix Suns like Flex, a team insider who has over 23k followers on Twitter and wears many hats, one of which features work for KSRN Arizona. <br /><br />Inside The Suns had the opportunity to sit down with Flex to get his thoughts and opinions on Phoenix's current playoff run:<br /><br />Q: How did you become a Suns fan? What made you fall in love with the game?<br /><br />A: I fell in love with basketball because I am the youngest of 14 kids. Everyone was a high level athlete, and played college athletics. I was a baseball player through and through in my early years. My family was so embedded in baseball, and when my brother (a baseball prodigy himself) passed away, I started to play basketball as an outlet to get away from the stressors surrounding baseball<br />I fell in love with everything about the game, from the processing and skill required to succeed, to the art form it evokes. One of my brothers saw I was picking up basketball quickly. He rowed the seed of my fandom by taking 12-year old me to a Nets-Suns game. I vividly remember that Kevin Johnson had 38 points on Mookie Blaylock. Three days later my brother gifted me a KJ jersey and I decided to fall in love with the Suns and have never looked back.<br />Q: What’s your all time favorite Suns team? What did you love about it?<br /><br />A: The 92-93 Suns unequivocally. I felt like that team was the one I was most personally connected to. I followed Barkley as my basketball fandom grew, and many of the residents in South Jersey were Sixers fans so it was natural to really familiarize myself with his game and the person he was. Having KJ and Barkley on the team was a match made in heaven. <br /><br />I thought Thunder Dan (Majerle) was amazing, Cedric Ceballos and Tim Kempton are personal friends of mine. I also think that this team is probably the best overall. Truly believe we are champions that year if Ced (Ceballos) doesn’t get injured in the conference finals. I also can't help but give props to the 04-05 and 20-21 teams. Both of those teams were truly special as well.<br />Q: How do the Suns stack up against Denver assuming that’s the matchup we get next round?<br />Q: Is there a specific Suns role player that you see as a consistent game changer over the rest of this run?<br /><br />A: I think it’s going to be Cam Payne. We haven’t seen him yet, he’s still easing his way back with an S1 bone contusion in his lower back. I think he’ll bring a change of pace compared to Chris Paul in his minutes, I think he can take (Landry) Shamet’s minutes and shots, and he adds an entirely different dynamic to this team when he returns. His return really does excite me. <br /><br />I also wanted to mention that everyone I talk to mentions that Cam’s (Payne) peak in 2021 was directly correlated with Dario (Saric.) Dario and Cam would run a dynamic two-man game with the bench unit, and Dar
