The Phoenix Suns are planning to sign Jordan McRae to a 10-day contract

McRae recently scored a D-League record 61 points.

The Phoenix Suns will re-sign Cory Jefferson on a 10-day contract.

Jefferson started the season with the Suns, appearing in six games.

Jefferson had 50 appearances last season with the Brooklyn Nets.

Jefferson has a career PER of 13.1.

The Phoenix Suns announced today they have signed guard Lorenzo Brown to a second 10-day contract.

Brown signed his first 10-day contract with the Suns on Jan. 8.

The 25-year-old guard has appeared in three games with Phoenix, totaling 13 points and six assists in 34 minutes.

A 6-5, 189-pound guard, Brown is a third-year NBA player who appeared in 55 total games with Philadelphia in 2013-14 and Minnesota in 2014-15. Originally selected with the 52nd overall pick by Minnesota in the 2013 NBA Draft, Brown played in 29 games (seven starts) with the Timberwolves last season seeing action in each of their final 22 games. Brown has four career double-digit scoring games, including a career-high 13 points in his final appearance of last season on April 15 against Oklahoma City.

Several influential figures in the Cleveland Cavaliers' locker room are open to the notion of trading for Markieff Morris.

They believe the Cavs can get the most potential out of him in the role he'd be assigned.

Morris would give the Cavaliers another stretch-four to back up Kevin Love and he'd also serve as an insurance policy in case of an injury.

The organization fears Morris could disrupt the team's chemistry.

The Cavaliers own a $10.5 million trade exception that expires in the offseason. Morris' $8 million annual salary could be absorbed into it, but they would have to send additional assets to the Phoenix Suns the Cavs are short on.

The Phoenix Suns plan on signing Lorenzo Brown of the Grand Rapids Drive to a 10-day contract.

Brown is averaging 16.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 1.9 steals in 32.4 minutes per game in the D-League this season.

Brown was a second round pick in 2013 out of N.C. State.

Markieff Morris has played just 20 minutes in one game since the end of his two-game suspension.

The Phoenix Suns would like to trade Morris but they've found the market for him soft.

“I’d say you never know if you’re close or not until something actually happens,” Ryan McDonough said. “I don’t think there’s any quantifiable way to measure that. We’re certainly looking at a number of things between now and the trade deadline, which is I think about five or six weeks away.

“Look, we’re not going to sit here and put our head in the sand and act like everything’s OK and we’re doing everything fine. We obviously need to make some changes and we’ll explore those things as aggressively as we usually do.”

McDonough was asked if it would be better for everyone if Morris was no long part of the team.

“If and when we come to firm conclusions, usually that’s followed by action,” he said. “So as of now we are where we are and we have the roster that we have, and that’s what it is until if and when we make changes.”

The Phoenix Suns have waived Cory Jefferson and Bryce Cotton.

Jefferson and Cotton had non-guaranteed deals.

The Suns are open to re-signing Jefferson and Cotton on 10-day deals.

Goran Dragic has his own theory for the struggles of the Phoenix Suns.

“It feels like they’re always changing something,” Dragic told Yahoo Sports. “They’re not like Miami, San Antonio, those teams that are really loyal when they find something.”

Dragic was traded by the Suns last February to the Miami Heat after the team signed a third ball dominant guard in Isaiah Thomas to go with him and Eric Bledsoe.

“Me and Bledsoe, we built really great chemistry together, we played well and the whole team did. Everybody expected that we’re going to get some big guys that we thought we needed, but they did another move, they bring in a point guard and it was tough,” Dragic told Yahoo. “I was a little bit frustrated. It was tough, especially for me, because I was playing off the ball all the time, and I was guarding [small forwards]. That was tough for me, but they did what they did.”

Dragic will return to play the Suns on Friday.

“I always believe when you find some pieces that you leave those pieces [alone]. But then you upgrade the other positions. Like San Antonio is doing. They always have the Big Three, but then it’s a good team. They always find another player at another position, so they’re always good. But that’s not my call,” Dragic told Yahoo, with an uncomfortable chuckle. “I was just there to play basketball. I tried to do my job.”

Robert Sarver had an interview with the Arizona Republic to discuss the state of the Phoenix Suns in what has been a disappointing season.

“The reality is, there’s only a half dozen championship-caliber organizations in the NBA over the last 25 years,” Sarver said. “My job is to find the right people and the right culture to eventually be one of those organizations, and it starts with me. I’m not shirking responsibility.

“The blame is to be shared from the top down. Our leadership needs to communicate better. It needs to provide a better culture that provides for more accountability and more motivation. We have a lot of good, young players. They need to be playing hard, aggressively and on the same page whether we win or lose. That’s what I expect going forward.”

Sarver seemed to take a broader perspective about the current generation of players mirroring the culture at large.

“I’m not sure it’s just the NBA,” Sarver said. “My whole view of the millennial culture is that they have a tough time dealing with setbacks, and Markieff Morris is the perfect example. He had a setback with his brother in the offseason and he can’t seem to recover from it.

“I’m not sure if it’s the technology or the instant gratification of being online. But the other thing is, I’m not a fan of social media. I tell my kids it’s like Fantasy Land. The only thing people put online are good things that happen to them, or things they make up. And it creates unrealistic expectations. We’ve had a number of setbacks this year that have taken their toll on us, and we haven’t been resilient. Therefore, it’s up to our entire organization to step up their game.”