Welp its 4:12 AM and I can't seem to sleep. I got to thinking about hoops as I often do and I came up with this trade scenario:
Suns send:
Steve Nash
Hedo Turkoglu
Grant Hill
New York Knicks send:
Eddie Curry
Danillo Gallinari
Raymond Felton
Ronny Turiaf
Future 1st Round pick
This trade can't be made until December because Felton just signed a deal, but thats fine. There's no way the Suns are going to blow it up now before seeing how this weird roster they've assembled will work out (or won't work out). I imagine by December I imagine it'll be clear this team is good, but not great and hopefully Sarver will have the balls to start blowing it up.
Why the Knicks do it:
Nash, Amare, Hill, Hedo & Anthony Randolph playing for D'Antoni is certainly going to be a super fun team to watch and good enough to make the playoffs in the East. Moving Felton in the deal would slightly help offset taking Hedo's bad contract and give them hope of luring Melo in the offseason (though they'd still likely have to pay the tax to do it, but thats less of a concern for the Knicks).
C Amare/Mozgov
PF Hedo/Randolph
SF Hill/Chandler
SG Azubuike/Mason
PG Nash/Douglas
That gives the Knicks a pretty veteran laden starting 5 with lots of playoff experience other than Azubuike, but also gives them a bright future by holding onto guys like Chandler and Randolph.
Why the Suns do it:
Flexibility! That would be something this franchise hasn't had in a long while. Instead of getting mired in mediocrity it would give the Suns the ability to lure free agents in the future and start building anew.
Felton can hold down the fort respectably at PG until Dragic is ready or some other future better quality PG is found. Moving Hedos awful contract would be great for the Suns.
Sure I'd love to see Nash retire a Sun, but either way he'll come back here and have his number retired one day. Its more important to me that the Suns don't get stuck in mediocrity with bad contracts and no flexibility going forward.
C Lopez/Frye
PF Warrick/Turiaf/Clark
SF Gallinari/Childress
SG Richardson/Dudley
PG Felton/Dragic
If you could somehow flip J-Rich for some expiring deals, young players or assets as well, that would be terrific. If not , let him walk in the off season.
Curries deal expires after this year, Turiaf only has one more year on a relatively cheap (about $4M) player option, Gallinari is still on his rookie deal, and Feltons deal is apparently about $7M/year.
Anyway, it obviously tanks this year for the Suns, but with Dragic, Galo, Dudley, Lopez and Frye thats a pretty decent young core you can continue to add draft picks and FA's too. Hopefully they'd stink enough to get those ping pong balls a hoppin' and finally bouncing in the Suns favor.
Suns send:
Steve Nash
Hedo Turkoglu
Grant Hill
New York Knicks send:
Eddie Curry
Danillo Gallinari
Raymond Felton
Ronny Turiaf
Future 1st Round pick
This trade can't be made until December because Felton just signed a deal, but thats fine. There's no way the Suns are going to blow it up now before seeing how this weird roster they've assembled will work out (or won't work out). I imagine by December I imagine it'll be clear this team is good, but not great and hopefully Sarver will have the balls to start blowing it up.
Why the Knicks do it:
Nash, Amare, Hill, Hedo & Anthony Randolph playing for D'Antoni is certainly going to be a super fun team to watch and good enough to make the playoffs in the East. Moving Felton in the deal would slightly help offset taking Hedo's bad contract and give them hope of luring Melo in the offseason (though they'd still likely have to pay the tax to do it, but thats less of a concern for the Knicks).
C Amare/Mozgov
PF Hedo/Randolph
SF Hill/Chandler
SG Azubuike/Mason
PG Nash/Douglas
That gives the Knicks a pretty veteran laden starting 5 with lots of playoff experience other than Azubuike, but also gives them a bright future by holding onto guys like Chandler and Randolph.
Why the Suns do it:
Flexibility! That would be something this franchise hasn't had in a long while. Instead of getting mired in mediocrity it would give the Suns the ability to lure free agents in the future and start building anew.
Felton can hold down the fort respectably at PG until Dragic is ready or some other future better quality PG is found. Moving Hedos awful contract would be great for the Suns.
Sure I'd love to see Nash retire a Sun, but either way he'll come back here and have his number retired one day. Its more important to me that the Suns don't get stuck in mediocrity with bad contracts and no flexibility going forward.
C Lopez/Frye
PF Warrick/Turiaf/Clark
SF Gallinari/Childress
SG Richardson/Dudley
PG Felton/Dragic
If you could somehow flip J-Rich for some expiring deals, young players or assets as well, that would be terrific. If not , let him walk in the off season.
Curries deal expires after this year, Turiaf only has one more year on a relatively cheap (about $4M) player option, Gallinari is still on his rookie deal, and Feltons deal is apparently about $7M/year.
Anyway, it obviously tanks this year for the Suns, but with Dragic, Galo, Dudley, Lopez and Frye thats a pretty decent young core you can continue to add draft picks and FA's too. Hopefully they'd stink enough to get those ping pong balls a hoppin' and finally bouncing in the Suns favor.
