During the festivities of NBA All-Star Weekend — wherein Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia turned some heads with a towering pull-up jumper over 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall in the Celebrity Game and All-Star Devin Booker narrowly missed out on his second 3-point contest victory — Phoenix added a new signing to the roster.
Haywood Highsmith, a 6-foot-5 wing who played the previous four NBA seasons with the Miami Heat, signed a multiyear deal with the Suns on Valentine’s Day. Highsmith was traded to the Brooklyn Nets last offseason, but hadn’t suited up in a game for Brooklyn this year due to a meniscus injury and surgery that he’d been recovering from.