A franchise barely two years old, playing its home games inside a university arena on the edge of the Sonoran Desert, and already stacking fixtures at a rate that would test a more established operation. That's the Valley Suns' reality heading into November 2026 — and the schedule they're about to face tells you a great deal about where this team sits in the G League ecosystem.
Four Games in Six Days: The Opening Salvo Against Coachella Valley
The Valley Suns open their home schedule not with a gentle warm-up but with an immediate double-header against the Coachella Valley Lakers — the G League affiliate of the Los Angeles Lakers. Two fixtures on Friday 13 November, two more on Sunday 15 November. That's four games in the space of a weekend, spread across Mullett Arena on the Arizona State University campus and the ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure — a venue pairing that makes the Suns' operation genuinely distinctive. You don't get many professional basketball teams splitting their hosting duties between an arena and a parking structure, and it signals both the logistical creativity and the growth-phase energy that defines a franchise still finding its footing.
The Coachella Valley Lakers are no soft opening act. As the Lakers affiliate, they carry organisational weight and the kind of player pipeline that makes them a recurring fixture on anyone's list of teams to watch in the G League's Western Conference. Getting four cracks at them in the opening fortnight is a statement of intent from the schedulers — and an immediate litmus test for the Suns.
- →Fri, 13 November 2026 — Tempe (ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure) décompte
- →Fri, 13 November 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
- →Sun, 15 November 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
- →Sun, 15 November 2026 — Tempe (ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure) décompte
If you're planning to be in Tempe for any of this, get your tickets before the opening weekend is spoken for.
The Salt Lake City Stars: Turning Up the Pressure Mid-November
There's barely a breath before the next wave arrives. The Salt Lake City Stars — the Utah Jazz affiliate — land in Tempe on Tuesday 17 November, with a second set of fixtures following on Thursday 19 November. Again, four games across the two venues in under a week. At that point, the Suns will have played eight home games in seven days of competition across a ten-day window. The physical and logistical demands of that kind of opening block are considerable. In the G League, where rosters shift with NBA call-ups and assignments, managing continuity through a stretch like this is as much a coaching problem as it is a conditioning one.
- →Tue, 17 November 2026 — Tempe (ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure) décompte
- →Tue, 17 November 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
- →Thu, 19 November 2026 — Tempe (ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure) décompte
- →Thu, 19 November 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
Eight home games before the end of November — the Valley Suns' opening month will define their season before December even arrives.
December Doubles: Stockton and Santa Cruz Arrive at Mullett
After a three-week gap — presumably filled with road fixtures — the Suns return home in December to face the Stockton Kings (Sacramento's affiliate) across 11 and 13 December, before the Santa Cruz Warriors (Golden State's affiliate) come to Tempe on 16 December. That's five games in six days to close the pre-Christmas window, and the pattern is the same: each opponent appears in both the Mullett Arena listing and at the ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure. The dual-venue approach is unusual enough to warrant attention. Whether it's a function of event scheduling at Mullett, an outreach strategy to different parts of the ASU campus community, or simply a G League operational quirk, it gives the Suns a genuinely unconventional home identity.
- →Fri, 11 December 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
- →Sun, 13 December 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
- →Wed, 16 December 2026 — Tempe (Mullett Arena) décompte
- →Wed, 16 December 2026 — Tempe (ASU Packard Drive Parking Structure) décompte
What This Schedule Actually Reveals
The Valley Suns were officially created on 14 February 2024 — barely two and a half years ago. For a franchise that young, to be staring down 48 fixtures with opponents of the calibre of the Warriors, Kings, Lakers, and Jazz affiliates is a measure of how quickly this organisation has embedded itself in the G League structure. The Phoenix Suns connection matters here too: the NBA affiliate relationship means player movement between the rosters will be constant, which makes fixture density both a challenge and, frankly, part of the point. The G League exists to develop players under competitive pressure, and this schedule delivers that pressure in concentrated bursts.
Mullett Arena, sitting on the ASU campus in Tempe, gives the Suns a ready-made audience of college basketball fans who already know how to watch the game at pace. The January fixture against the Texas Legends — and the 33 further games beyond the ones listed here — will tell us whether the Suns can maintain momentum through a full season. But the opening block against Coachella Valley and Salt Lake City will establish the tone long before the calendar turns.