Just a quick stats comparison for Bosh and Amare this season:
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pts reb ast blk to pf
Bosh [B]22.8[/B] [B]9.5[/B] [B]2.4[/B] 0.9 [B]2.4[/B] [B]2.5[/B]
Amare 20.9 8.2 2.0 [B]1.0[/B] 2.9 3.1
I don't follow Bosh much in Toronto, but I was very impressed with him at the Olympics. If he can get defensive rebounds and crash the offensive boards, that would immediatelly make us better this season. Prince is a good defender, but he will not turn us into a great defensive team alone. And one has to consider the impact adding Prince would have on Grant Hill.
Both Amare and Bosh can become free agents in the summer of 2010. From a financial standpoint, it makes no difference if we keep Amare or have Bosh. The Suns would hold Bosh's bird rights instead of Amare's. If the Suns were planning on trying to lure top tier free agents that summer, Bosh should have been a primary target anyway. Prince however is signed through 2011. Adding Prince, while probably saving the Suns some cash in the short run assuming we get some expiring contracts to go with it, would actually leave us less to spend in 2010.
Ok guys. Relax. It said that Prince would be the MAIN guy coming back to Phoenix. Which mean there would be more pieces coming here, not just Prince for Amare. No GM in the world would do that deal and leave the Suns with NO STARTING caliber PF.
Those additional pieces would most likely be just expiring contracts and maybe some draft picks. The fact remains that Bosh and Amare would be the top prizes in that trade, and if the deal were to go down the way it was described, the Suns would wind up the big loser.
