PHOENIX — It wasn't long ago when Michigan State Spartans basketball coach Tom Izzo hopped on a podcast and casually let the world know the Phoenix Suns considered him for their head coaching search last summer. "I've had more than a couple job offers in the NBA, looked at one last year with Phoenix – my former player Mat Ishbia. That was hard, that was a hard thing to turn down because No. 1 I kind of wanted to go with him ... we talked seriously about it, let's say that," Izzo said on  The Dan Patrick Show earlier this year. There seemed to have been some confusion on those words, so much so that Ishbia himself was asked about it at the team's end-of-season press conference. "Coach Izzo, I talk to coaches Izzo about everything all the time. He was not offered a job. I think people misunderstood what he said. But either way, we talk to Coach Izzo all the time, when we're doing a coaching search, asking what we should be looking for, how we think about building a culture," Ishbia said this past week.…