Phoenix Suns
Buying a gift for a Suns fan should be simple. But most people stuff it up. They race to the checkout with whatever cheap thing sports a team logo, whatever implies fan without actually telling you anything about the person sporting it or utilising it. We've seen that exchange far too often and it's why we built this collection.
The Suns have one of the coolest teams identities in basketball. The colours. The desert sun beating down during every home game. The fact that this team always has something to prove and more often than not comes to play like they know it. Fans of this team feel the same way. They aren't fans until they're diehard. So, we only included gifts that lived up to that bar.
We wanted to find stuff that we thought an actual Suns supporter would be proud to own, utilise or wear when game day rolls around. Not silly gadgets that serve their purpose and are tossed into a drawer after a week. Not your fist-sized foam finger yelling energy. That positive version of fan merchandise, the stuff that becomes a part of someone's life and just so happens to be purple and orange.
Each product in this guide was filtered through the same question. Would we buy this for a friend of ours who lives and dies by these colours? A lot of stuff didn't make the cut. If it felt cheap to us. If it tried too hard to simply fit a price point. If it didn't actually look like something that would impress a fan. We dumped it.
Because the things you'll find here work for the fan who's been through every stage of the Suns dynasty. The ones that pumped life into an entire city and the downtimes that made us all want to tear our hair out. This gift guide works for a birthday. It works for Christmas. It works for that person in your life who just needs you to know that you listen when they talk basketball. The Suns mean something unique to those who cheer for them. These gifts do too.