Here's how the Phoenix Suns could look in 2026-27, roles and contracts

Grayson Allen isn’t so sure if the Phoenix Suns will do much to their team this offseason, after exceeding preseason expectations with 45 wins and a playoff appearance.

“I haven't thought about that,” Allen said during the team’s exit interviews on April 28. "I like our group. I think we have a good chance to keep a lot of people together."

The Suns' season ended with a first-round playoff loss to the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

Here’s a look at each player on the roster and their anticipated role for the 2026-27 season, as the Suns are under the first and second NBA tax apron going into the offseason.

Devin Booker

2025-26 numbers: 64 games, 26.1 points, 6.0 assists per game.

Highlights: Made NBA All-Star Game, led the Suns in scoring, assists.

Lowlights: Shot just 33% from 3 in the regular season, 25% in the playoffs. Averaged four turnovers in the postseason.

Current contract: Four years, $220.4 million (ends 2027-28). Booker signed a historic two-year, $145-million extension last summer that runs through 2029-30.

Roles for 2026-27: Continue to serve as a team leader, but his role could change if the Suns look to add a point guard so he can play more off the ball. If he remains the primary ball handler, Booker will look to continue to make the right play that’s often considered passing out of a double, but forcing the action to score is also a good option for the franchise player.

Dillon Brooks

2025-26 numbers: 56 games, 20.2 points per game (career high).

Highlights: Immediate culture impact after being traded to Phoenix in the Kevin Durant deal. He averaged a career-high 26 points in the playoffs, leading the Suns in scoring.

Lowlights: Led the NBA in technical fouls with 17. Four others were rescinded.

Current contract: Four years, $86 million (ends 2026-27, after which he’ll be an unrestricted free agent). Brooks is up for an extension after the 2026 NBA Finals, with the max being a four-year deal for $125.4 million.

Roles for 2026-27: Remain a tone setter with his attitude and physicality. Brooks was given more freedom to create his own shot. That’ll likely continue, but will that include serving as a playmaker? Brooks averaged just 1.8 assists, which tied a career high. Will he be asked to play the four, which can be problematic on defense in terms of rebounding, or the three if the Suns add size?

Jalen Green

2025-26 numbers: 32 games, 17.8 points per game.

Highlights: Posted back-to-back 30-point games in the NBA Play-In Tournament in his first season with the team after Houston traded him to Phoenix in the Kevin Durant deal.

Lowlights: Right hamstring injury limited him to a season low in games played.

Current contract: Three years, $105 million (ends 2027-28. He has a player option and will be an unrestricted free agent). He’s eligible for a max extension of four years, $195.2 million on Oct. 1.

Roles for 2026-27: Suns general manager Brian Gregory has said he believes Booker and Green can become the NBA’s top backcourt. At times, Green found himself playing the three with Collin Gillespie at point guard. Will the Suns move forward with him playing the two or trade him and add frontcourt size?

Grayson Allen

2025-26 numbers: 51 games, 16.5 points a game (career high).

Highlights: Scored a career-high 42 points, hitting 10 3-point shots, in a Nov. 10 win against the New Orleans Pelicans.

Lowlights: Played just 51 games due to multiple injuries, his lowest total since playing 50 games in 2020-21.

Current contract: Four years, $70 million. Has a player option in 2027-28 and will be an unrestricted free agent after that season.

Roles for 2026-27: He remains one of the NBA‘s best shooters despite just 34.9% from 3 this season, his lowest percentage from deep since his rookie year. Allen created more off the dribble this season. Will that continue? As a team, the Suns need to improve their perimeter defense as Allen often finds himself having to defend quality perimeter scorers.

Collin Gillespie

2025-26 numbers: 80 games, 12.7 points per game (career high), 40.1% from 3.

Highlights: Set Suns single-season record for made 3s at 232. Scored career playoff-high 20 points in Game 4 vs. the Thunder.

Lowlights: Shot 15-of-64 from 3 in an 11-game stretch late in the regular season and play-in.

Current contract: Unrestricted free agent after this season.

Roles for 2026-27: Gillespie and the Suns are already in contract talks. He could sign a four-year deal for $10 million a year. Spacing the floor with his shooting will remain a primary duty, but he’ll need to build off averaging a career-high 4.6 assists in his point guard role.

Mark Williams

2025-26 numbers: 60 games (career-high), 11.7 points per game on 64.4% shooting, eight rebounds.

Highlights: He stayed healthy for majority of the season. Posted 14 double-doubles.

Lowlights: Didn’t play in the playoffs due to a left foot third metatarsal stress reaction that sidelined him 15 consecutive games late in the regular season.

Current contract: A qualifying offer of $9.6 million from Phoenix will make him a restricted free agent so the Suns can match any offer sheet from another team.

Roles for 2026-27: The Suns’ preseason conditioning plan for Williams, designed to keep him healthy given his injury history, worked well, for the most part. But the 7-footer missing the playoffs with a recurring foot issue is a concern. There was also a dip in his production after the All-Star break. How much rookie Khaman Maluach grows from Year 1 to Year 2 may impact Williams’ role in Phoenix if Williams is with the Suns to start next season.

Royce O’Neale

2025-26 numbers: 78 games, 9.8 points per game, shooting 40.8% (career high) from 3.

Highlights: Finished second on the team in made 3s with 212, a career high.

Lowlights: Shot just 71.1% from the free-throw line. Wasn’t nearly the defender he has been in previous seasons.

Current contract: Four years, $42 million, which ends in 2027-28, after which he’ll be an unrestricted free agent. He’s eligible for a max extension of three years, $67 million after the NBA Finals.

Roles for 2026-27: Continue to space the floor. He made 40% of his 3s for a second straight season. He’s a reliable inbound passer for late-game situations. O’Neale has a tradeable contract, but NBA teams can never have enough good shooters.

Jordan Goodwin

2025-26 numbers: 70 games (career-high), 8.7 points, 2.0 offensive rebounds, 37.1% from 3.

Highlights: Scored career-high 26 points Jan. 4 in win over Oklahoma City, making a career-best eight 3s. Won the team's Dan Majerle Hustle Award.

Lowlights: A recurring left calf strain sidelined him the last three games of the OKC series.

Current contract: Unrestricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27 season: Goodwin was the team’s best on-ball defender. The Suns can offer him a four-year deal. He finished second on the team in offensive rebounds per game despite being just 6-3. The Suns tried him as essentially a four man in a starting role late in the season, making the Suns even smaller to battle on the boards. He’d be best utilized coming off the bench as a two or three.

Oso Ighodaro

2025-26 numbers: 82 games, 6.5 points per game on 65.3% shooting and 5.1 rebounds (all career highs).

Highlights: Played every game this season, including the play-in and NBA playoffs.

Lowlights: Shot just 45.3% from the free throw line, a career low.

Current contract: Four years, $7.8 million (ends 2027-28 with a team option). He’s eligible for a max four-year extension of $92.8 million after the NBA Finals.

Roles for 2026-27: Ighodaro said during the team’s exit interviews that he’s been working on his shooting. If the athletic big man can become a threat from 15 feet, it’s a game-changer. Ighodaro is a proven passer, but the Suns need him to improve on the defensive boards. He averaged just 3.4 defensive rebounds this season.

Ryan Dunn

2025-26 numbers: 70 games, 5.8 points, 4.2 rebounds.

Highlights: Improved his 3-point shooting from 31.1% as a rookie to 33.1 this season.

Lowlights: Went scoreless in the playoffs as he played just a minute in the last two games of the OKC series.

Current contract: Four years, $12.9 million, which ends after the 2027-28 season. He’ll be a restricted free agent. The Suns have a club option for 2027-28.

Roles for 2026-27: The emergence of rookie Rasheer Fleming led to Dunn seeing fewer minutes and falling out of the rotation. Dunn is one of the team’s better perimeter defenders, but he continues to search for a true role in the offense. The Suns have him sit in the corner for 3s when he can impact the game with movement and offensive rebounds.

Jamaree Bouyea

2025-26 numbers: 46 games, 5.7 points per game.

Highlights: Scored career-high 27 points in final regular-season game April 12 at Oklahoma City. Signed a standard contract after starting the season as a two-way player in Phoenix.

Lowlights: He wasn’t the same after suffering a concussion in January.

Current contract: Two years, $3.1 million, with a team option for the 2026-27 season. Will be an unrestricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27 season: Backup point guard who can serve as a starter when needed.

Haywood Highsmith

2025-26 numbers: Seven games, 5.4 points a game, 57.1% from 3.

Highlights: Returned from surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his right knee suffered last August. Scored 16 points, going 4-of-5 from 3, in a loss on March 16 at Boston.

Lowlights: Had a setback with his right knee that sidelined him for essentially a month.

Current contract: Two years, $3.8 million (ends 2026-27). Will be unrestricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27: Highsmith can help fill that much-needed void at the four because of his strength and physicality at 6-5 and his ability to stretch the floor from 3. The Suns tried to land him for two years. He can contribute in multiple ways in Phoenix.

Amir Coffey

2025-26 numbers: 16 games with Suns (was acquired midseason), 4.8 points per game.

Highlights: Went from hitting 28% of his 3s in Milwaukee to 41.7% with the Suns.

Lowlights: Suffered a left ankle sprain that sidelined him for seven games.

Current contract: Unrestricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27: The Suns acquired him from the Bucks in a three-team deal before the trade deadline. At 6-7, he provides perimeter size, but hard to imagine him staying in Phoenix if an opportunity to play more is elsewhere.

Rasheer Fleming

2025-26 numbers: 55 games, 4.3 points per game, 34.6% from 3.

Highlights: Scored career-high 16 points twice this season.

Lowlights: Missed two free throws late in a one-point loss on March 16 at San Antonio as Victor Wembanyama hit the game-winner.

Current contract: Four years, $8.6 million, which ends 2028-29 with a team option. Will be an unrestricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27: A huge summer awaits Fleming. At 6-8, he is long, athletic and has shown the ability to knock down corner 3s. Upside is tremendous. If he can improve his overall game, Fleming should make the jump into the rotation in Year 2 and stay there.

Khaman Maluach

2025-26 numbers: 46 games, 3.0 points per game.

Highlights: Seeing action with Williams being out with the foot injury. The rookie grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds in his first career start on April 8 against Dallas.

Lowlights: The 7-footer hardly played the first half of the season despite being the 10th overall pick in the 2025 draft out of Duke.

Current contract: Four years, $27.3 million (ends 2028-29). Has club options for last two years. Will be a restricted free agent after that.

Roles for 2026-27: At 19 years old, Maluach lacked the strength to physically compete in the NBA, but he’s an active big. He also has a good shooting stroke from 3. If Maluach can increase his strength and make a strong leap, he could become Phoenix’s starting center at some point next season.

Koby Brea

2025-26 numbers: 12 games, 3.8 points per game, 43.3% from 3.

Highlights: Posted career highs of 20 points and six made 3s in the final regular-season game on April 12 at Oklahoma City.

Lowlights: Limited minutes with Phoenix as a two-way player. He spent most of his time in the G League with the Valley Suns.

Current contract: Restricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27: He’s a knockdown 3-point shooter. Should see major action at this year’s summer league in Las Vegas. Collin Gillespie went from being a two-way player in his first year in Phoenix to having a career year in his second. Could Brea follow the same path and have an impactful Year 2 in Phoenix?

CJ Huntley

2025-26 season numbers: Four games, 3.0 points per game.

Highlights: Rejoined the Suns on a two-way after being waived before the 2025-26 season.

Lowlights: Like Brea, limited minutes. Spent most of his time with Valley Suns.

Current contract: Two-year deal. Will be a restricted free agent in 2026-27.

Roles for 2026-27: He can return as a two-way player. The 6-9 forward has some potential. Could benefit from spending more time with the Phoenix Suns.

Isaiah Livers

2025-26 numbers: 36 games, 1.8 points per game.

Highlights: Returning from a right hip reshaping procedure in October 2024 that sidelined him for the entire 2024-25 season.

Lowlights: Battling to play after missing an entire season. Was a two-way player.

Current contract: Restricted free agent.

Roles for 2026-27: Hard to see him going through another year as a two-way player. Brings perimeter size, but Livers last played March 22 against the Toronto Raptors.