Raja Bell, used as a reserve off the bench for the Utah Jazz last season, has agreed to a deal with the Phoenix Suns, ESPN.com's Marc Stein reported.

"We're still negotiating the terms and everything, but that's where I intend to sign," Bell said Friday afternoon.

Bell is known as a defensive-mined shooting guard and has improved his jump shot to the point where he was in the running for 6th Man of the Year in '03-'04.

Bell will help fill a hole left behind after the Suns-Knicks deal which sent Quentin Richardson packing for power forward/center Kurt Thomas.