The 2015–16 NBA season was the Phoenix Suns' 48th season in the NBA. It was their first season where the Suns played in the Talking Stick Resort Arena with its new name, having played there since the 1992-93 season, when it used to be called the America West Arena and then later, the U.S. Airways Center.

The Phoenix Suns have only one first round pick and one second round pick this season. Their sole first round pick was their own that was also a part of the NBA draft lottery. The Suns initially had two other draft picks as well (one from the Minnesota Timberwolves and the other from the Los Angeles Lakers, both of which were coincidentally the top picks of this season's draft), but they were both involved with trades the Suns made last season. Minnesota's first round pick (which had lottery protections this season) was traded to the Boston Celtics, where Phoenix got center Brandan Wright in exchange. The Lakers' pick (which was top 5 protected this season), however, was moved in the trade deadline extravaganza of 2015, with Phoenix gaining guard Brandon Knight from the Milwaukee Bucks (as well as other players and future first round draft picks) in exchange for Milwaukee gaining the Suns' center Miles Plumlee and then-rookie point guard Tyler Ennis, as well as the Philadelphia 76ers' point guard Michael Carter-Williams, and Philadelphia getting the Lakers' protected first round pick out of it. The lone second round pick they have is also the pick they had on their own accord in spite of having a declining record when compared to two seasons ago in the process.

With the 13th pick, the Suns selected shooting guard Devin Booker from Kentucky University. Booker averaged 10 points off of 47% overall shooting, 2 rebounds, and 1.1 assists during 21.5 minutes of play in Kentucky's near-undefeated season as a bench player. As a result, Devin would end up being the Southeastern Conference's Sixth Man of the Year for his performances that season, as well as made it to the All-SEC Second Team and the SEC All-Freshmen Team. Despite him coming off the bench during his college season, Booker would make for the most immediate successful rookie the Suns have drafted (that was kept by them) in over a decade, not only finishing fourth in the NBA Rookie of the Year Award voting, but also being the first Suns rookie to make it to any All-Rookie Team since 2003. After that, with the 44th pick, the Suns selected another player from the University of Kentucky, this time point guard Andrew Harrison. However, the Suns would end up trading Andrew's rights to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for power forward Jon Leuer. Harrison under his two seasons with the Wildcats as the starting point guard had averaged 10.1 points, 3.8 assists, and 2.7 rebounds throughout his time with Kentucky. Despite that, though, Harrison's statistics wound up decreasing during his second and final season with the Wildcats, which was considered a likely reason for Harrison's drop from being a considerable first round talent to falling around the middle of the second round. Another player that the Suns would get that had declared for the 2015 NBA Draft, but ultimately wasn't selected there was Phoenix native Alan Williams, an undersized center/power forward from the University of California, Santa Barbara who was well known for his rebounding abilities, to the point where he earned best rebounding numbers in not just college at his junior and senior years (even winning the Big West's Player of the Year as a junior), but also was the leading rebounder in China earlier this season for the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles.

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