Get Harden = DWILL

[sunsGM]

Interesting thought......If the suns somehow managed to pull off the trade of nash/gortat to OKC in exchange for harden/perkins/#28 pick as mentioned in another thread, wouldnt this entice DWILL to sign with phoenix?

Perkins(8)/Lopez(5)
Morris(2)/Frye(6)/Warrick(4)
Dudley(4)
Harden(5)
DWILL(18)/Telfair(1)

Amnesty: Childress

Suns will have the #13 and #28 picks

 

[95pro]

Then get Howard while we are at it

 

[sunsfan88]

And then trade for 'Melo since its too crowded in NY with Lin, A'mare, Chandler etc. Trade all our picks for the next 5 years for LMA...Portland is rebuilding, they need the picks.

Our lineup

Deron
Harden
'Melo
LMA
Dwight

Championship baby!!!

 

[devilalum]

And then trade for 'Melo since its too crowded in NY with Lin, A'mare, Chandler etc. Trade all our picks for the next 5 years for LMA...Portland is rebuilding, they need the picks.

Our lineup

Deron
Harden
'Melo
LMA
Dwight

Championship baby!!!

Melo is a black hole. He's the second coming of Derrick Coleman.

 

[SweetD]

Dwill is a great player but I don't see him coming to Phoenix. I would rather draft a PG this year if we are going to build around Harden.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Interesting thought......If the suns somehow managed to pull off the trade of nash/gortat to OKC in exchange for harden/perkins/#28 pick as mentioned in another thread, wouldnt this entice DWILL to sign with phoenix?

Perkins(8)/Lopez(5)
Morris(2)/Frye(6)/Warrick(4)
Dudley(4)
Harden(5)
DWILL(18)/Telfair(1)

Amnesty: Childress

Suns will have the #13 and #28 picks

Say you can't get DWill. You draft Marshall and maybe Fab Melo? or some other big that drops precipitously? I might consider buying Orlando's pick and drafting Royce White as well. And then retain Aaron Brooks for an offensive spark off the bench. He would look pretty decent on that team. Keep Michael Redd too for depth at sg.

Marshall, Telfair, Brooks
Harden, Redd
White, Dudley
Morris, Frye, Warrick
Perkins, Lopez, (Frye), Melo

It would be an interesting young team to watch develop. And you would still have cap space, I believe, to go for a max FA this year or next.

 

[JCSunsfan]

"If we keep the pick"
-Lance Blanks about the #13 pick in a lunch with the press today.

Get ready to pull your hair out.

 

[Chaplin]

Lance Blanks is the worst GM this franchise has ever had.

 

[Superbone]

Lance Blanks is the worst GM this franchise has ever had.

Nah, that was Sarver by a mile after Kerr left.

 

[Chaplin]

Nah, that was Sarver by a mile after Kerr left.

Sarver was never the GM, he was in charge for 2 months until he hired Babby, sure. But Blanks is ten times worse in a position he's supposed to thrive in.

 

[Superbone]

Sarver was never the GM, he was in charge for 2 months until he hired Babby, sure. But Blanks is ten times worse in a position he's supposed to thrive in.

And that was the period where we traded for Hedo and signed Warrick and Childress.

 

[Chaplin]

And that was the period where we traded for Hedo and signed Warrick and Childress.

Signed Warrick and Childress, yes. Warrick was a huge mistake, not because he sucks (although he does), but because he was our Amare replacement. Childress was actually in demand when we signed him.

But Kerr admitted after being fired that he started the Hedo trade himself. My guess also is that led to Babby being hired as well.

 

[SweetD]

What has Blanks been able to do? Babby made all the bad signing with his old clients. At least they moved Turk's contract and got Gortat.

 

[Chaplin]

What has Blanks been able to do? Babby made all the bad signing with his old clients. At least they moved Turk's contract and got Gortat.

That's just it, he hasn't done anything. Are his hands tied? If they are, then what's the point of having him here? The guy is terrible as a spokesman for the team and doesn't appear to have any good connections with other teams.

I also get the feeling that he doesn't care one bit about the fans. Babby may be incompetent, but at least he tries to reach out to the fans once in a while. Think about it--the differences just as a public persona of the suns between Blanks and Bryan Colangelo are quite striking.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Signed Warrick and Childress, yes. Warrick was a huge mistake, not because he sucks (although he does), but because he was our Amare replacement. Childress was actually in demand when we signed him.

by who? I don't remember seeing any reports of this, especially at the relatively high cost that we got him for.

i do agree with you about Blanks tho... dude seems like an absolute nincompoop.

i hope we trade away our pick this year, only so the Republic can run the headline: "Shooting Blanks."

 

[Chaplin]

by who? I don't remember seeing any reports of this, especially at the relatively high cost that we got him for.

Don't remember all of them, but I believe the clippers and even the Hawks were considering him. I definitely remember the Clips as one of the teams.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

i do agree with you about Blanks tho... dude seems like an absolute nincompoop.

Most amusingly, Sarver crowing about reinventing the NBA front office with tweedle dee and tweedle dumb.

Bang up job as usual Bobby!

 

[Cheesebeef]

Don't remember all of them, but I believe the clippers and even the Hawks were considering him. I definitely remember the Clips as one of the teams.

i don't recall anyone being seriously interested in him. do you remember if they were actually interested in him for the absurd amount of money we spent?

 

[Chaplin]

i don't recall anyone being seriously interested in him. do you remember if they were actually interested in him for the absurd amount of money we spent?

Yeah, and I believe that's why we spent so much money on him. Bidding war.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yeah, and I believe that's why we spent so much money on him. Bidding war.

bidding war? That I definitely don't remember. What I do remember is that he left the states because no one would give him even the mid-level. and how could there even be a bidding war on a guy who wasn't even a UFA? The Hawks still owned his rights. He was actually traded to us.

i would love to see some proof there was a "bidding war" over a guy who a) wasn't a FA b) previously couldn't get a big contract and c) was out of the league for three years. While I don't remember how many teams were after him, I definitely remember the majority of the media was stunned when we signed him for as much money as we did. there was no bidding war for Josh Childress. That's what made it such an assinine signing.

 

[Folster]

i don't recall anyone being seriously interested in him. do you remember if they were actually interested in him for the absurd amount of money we spent?

I recall Cleveland pursuing him hard. They had just lost Lebron.

edit: (yes Cleveland did pursue him. http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/07/cleveland_cavaliers_may_be_rea.html)

I was really excited about Childress coming here. I was wrong.