The 1979–80 Phoenix Suns season was the 12th season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association and at 55–27, the team's best regular season record since the franchise's inception.
 The Suns defeated Western Conference foe Kansas City in the opening round of the playoffs, marking the first time the Suns had won a playoff series in back-to-back seasons.
 In the Western Conference Semifinals, the Suns would lose to the Pacific-winning Los Angeles Lakers, who later went on to win the season's championship.
 The Suns were led by head coach John MacLeod, his seventh season with the team, and played all home games in Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The 2017–18 Phoenix Suns season will be the 50th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as their 25th season at the Talking Stick Resort Arena.
 It is also their third season in five years where the Suns would earn themselves a Top 5 draft pick in the NBA Draft, with them having the second straight year of gaining the #4 pick, this time being Josh Jackson.
The 2010–11 Phoenix Suns season was the 43rd season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 For the first time in eight seasons, the Suns will be without the play of power forward Amar'e Stoudemire, a 5-time All-Star and former Rookie of the Year who joined the New York Knicks in the summer.
 The Suns traded Jason Richardson on December 18, 2010 as part of a trade that brought Vince Carter to the Suns.
 On February 24, 2011, the Suns traded Goran Dragić and the draft pick they got earlier from Orlando in exchange for Aaron Brooks.
 Alvin Gentry was head coach and the Suns played their home games at US Airways Center.
The 1984 NBA draft was the 37th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 It was held at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, on June 19, 1984, before the 1984–85 season.
 The draft was broadcast in the United States on the USA Network.
 In this draft, 23 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.
 The Houston Rockets won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Portland Trail Blazers, who obtained the Indiana Pacers' first-round pick in a trade, were awarded the second pick.
 The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season.
 The Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded an extra first-round draft pick as compensation for the draft picks traded away by their previous owner, Ted Stepien.
 A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was automatically eligible for selection.
 Before the draft, five college underclassmen announced that they would leave college early and would be eligible for selection.
 Prior to the draft, the San Diego Clippers relocated to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Clippers.
 The draft consisted of 10 rounds comprising the selection of 228 players.
 This draft was the last to be held before the creation of the Draft Lottery in 1985.
 It was also the first NBA Draft to be overseen by David Stern.
The 1973–74 Phoenix Suns season was the sixth for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 It was the first of 14 seasons head coach John MacLeod spent with Phoenix.
 The season would also be the last for former All-Star forward/center Connie Hawkins, traded to the Los Angeles Lakers after appearing in nine games for the Suns.
 Charlie Scott would repeat as an All-Star, but who missed 30 games due to injury despite his NBA career-high 25.4 points a game.
 The team went on to finish the season 30–52, a career-worst for MacLeod and the franchise's poorest record since their inaugural season.
The 1975–76 Phoenix Suns season was the eighth season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 The season included an improbable run to the NBA Finals by a team that had never won a playoff series and made the playoffs only one other season in the franchise's existence.
 With a regular season record of 42–40, the Suns had finished third in the Pacific division standings and improved upon last season's win total by 10 games.
 The ensuing playoff run took plenty by surprise, including a seven-game series win against the Western Conference's top seed Golden State Warriors, a team that had finished 17 games ahead of the Suns in the divisional standings.
 The franchise's first Finals appearance pitted them against a 12-time champion in the Boston Celtics, whose roster featured three players from that season's All-Star Game.
 The 1976 NBA Finals would feature a memorable Game 5 triple-overtime thriller filled with controversies in which the Suns narrowly lost.
 Returning home for Game 6, the demoralized Suns would lose Game 6 and the series but not before endearing a generation of fans to the Suns franchise and showcasing a basketball from the desert southwest.
 The team's "Cinderella" season earned them the nickname Sunderella Suns.
 John MacLeod was head coach and the Suns played their home games at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Scott Allen Skiles Sr. (born March 5, 1964) is an American basketball coach and former player.
 He most recently served as the head coach of the Orlando Magic.
 He also coached the Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, and Milwaukee Bucks.
 A first-round draft pick out of Michigan State University, Skiles played ten seasons as a point guard in the NBA.
 He holds the NBA record for assists in one game with 30, set in his fifth season in the league and second with Orlando, in which he also earned the 1990–91 NBA Most Improved Player Award.
The 2008–09 Phoenix Suns season was the 41st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The season was to be a promising one, filled with All-Star talent at several positions.
 It was believed over the offseason, the Suns would be able to better incorporate Shaquille O'Neal, who necessitated changes to both the offense and defense after being obtained in a trade one season ago.
 It was also the first season head coach Terry Porter had been able to use the summer to implement his defensive approach for a team which had in seasons past scored a large number of their points off fast breaks and early in the shot clock.
 Sensing a need for change, team management traded for scorer Jason Richardson in December, but this did not appear to immediately reinvigorate an offense that had recently led the league in points per game.
 However, after Phoenix went 28–23 to start the season, Suns assistant Alvin Gentry was named to replace Porter as head coach.
 Less than one week after the All-Star Game, Amar'e Stoudemire sustained a season-ending eye injury while the improvement of the team never fully came.
 The Suns finished 46–36, second in the Pacific division but out the playoffs for the first time since Steve Nash rejoined the Suns in the 2004–05 season.
The 2014–15 Phoenix Suns season is the 47th season of the franchise in the NBA.
 It is also the last season when the arena would be named the US Airways Center, before it is renamed Talking Stick Resort Arena beginning in October 2015.
 With Channing Frye and Leandro Barbosa leaving in free agency and Goran Dragić being traded to the Miami Heat near the end of the trade deadline, no other player on the team had made the playoffs with the organization in previous years now.
 The Suns were in playoff contention for much of the season but suffered in the final weeks, partly due to injuries involving Brandon Knight and later Alex Len, and partly due to the amount of players added and taken away during the trade deadline.
 The Suns capped off the 2014–15 NBA season with five consecutive losses and losing 10 out of 11 games total (the worst season-ending stretch since its inaugural season), finishing 3rd place in Pacific division and 10th place in Western Conference with a 39-43 record.
 The Suns did not qualify for the playoffs for the fifth straight year, which currently ties the stretch from the 1970–71 to 1974–75 seasons as the team's longest playoff drought.
Goran Dragić (born 6 May 1986) is a Slovenian professional basketball for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions.
 He played professional basketball in Slovenia and Spain before entering the NBA in 2008.
 Dragić has played for the Phoenix Suns twice, the Houston Rockets, and the Miami Heat.
 He was an All-NBA Third Team selection and the NBA Most Improved Player in 2014.

Question: The draft pick traded away during the 2010-11 Phoenix Suns season went on to win the NBA most improved player in what year?
Answer: 2014