Tyler Ennis will head off to Phoenix in the next little while to take up residence there as one of the newest members of the city’s NBA franchise.

It might be fitting if he found a really, really crowded condo development to live in.

Ennis, who the Suns made the 18th pick in June’s NBA draft, is one of a gaggle of point guards who will be fighting for minutes, responsibility and perhaps even roster spots when training camp opens late next month.

Phoenix already has Goran Dragic, a budding NBA star, under contract and signed free agent Isaiah Thomas to a contract last month. The future of Erik Bledsoe, a restricted free agent, is still to be determined but if he returns on even a one-year qualifying offer, it’s going to be an awfully jam-packed backcourt that Ennis will have to deal with.

“I think, as a young guy, it’s a good thing,” Ennis said before an appearance Monday at a Nike-sponsored Americas Team camp for up-and-coming players from the western hemisphere at Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic Centre.

“You’re able to go in and learn from people, I think in the long run it’s definitely going to help me.”

The six-foot-two Ennis remains philosophical about his chances to crack the Suns rotation as a rookie with just one NCAA season on his resume. There is no doubt he is talented — scouts laud his leadership and decision-making abilities — but it is a quantum leap from leading the Syracuse Orange against other teenagers to taking the helm of a promising young NBA roster.

“Anywhere you go in the league, you’re going to compete for minutes,” said Ennis. “There are so many point guards, good point guards. It’s going to be good for me to learn from those guys.

“I think I bring a different dynamic than those guys do, being a pass-first guy, too. Me being able to score the ball as well as pass is something that’s a plus as well, I think.”

It has been something of a whirlwind summer for the Brampton native. Immediately after the draft, he spent time at a Suns mini-camp leading into the summer league season. There hasn’t been much down time to re-energize before the biggest challenge of his young basketball life.

That’s what August is for, though, and he plans to take advantage of it.

“Summer league is a little bit of a tease and then you hear about training camp and that kind of thing. It’s good to get going a little bit, work out, move out to Phoenix and get settled,” he said. “The most rest I got was probably a week and a half right after summer league and I have like a week right now, but I’m going to be working out a lot.

“Then it’s time to get started again.”