Suns To Pursue Jamal Crawford

[JCSunsfan]

As I view it the competition for a Suns roster spot would be between Michael Redd and Jamal Crawford. I'd just as soon keep Redd.

Shannon Brown has earned a spot on the Suns roster if the asking price is reasonable. Same with Telfair.

Yup. Hopefully this is misinformation, but our FO have shown that level of saavy yet.

 

[JS22]

As I view it the competition for a Suns roster spot would be between Michael Redd and Jamal Crawford. I'd just as soon keep Redd.

Shannon Brown has earned a spot on the Suns roster if the asking price is reasonable. Same with Telfair.

If I could 100% guarantee Redd would remain healthy next year I'd rather keep Redd. But at this point I'd rather have Crawford if I had to chose. Just don't trust Redd to stay healthy.

 

[hcsilla]

As I view it the competition for a Suns roster spot would be between Michael Redd and Jamal Crawford. I'd just as soon keep Redd.

Shannon Brown has earned a spot on the Suns roster if the asking price is reasonable. Same with Telfair.

Guys, Telfair is under contract next season for 1.5 mil, if the Suns don't waive him which is unlikely after his recent perfomance.

 

[Mainstreet]

Guys, Telfair is under contract next season for 1.5 mil, if the Suns don't waive him which is unlikely after his recent perfomance.

I could not find any information that Telfair signed more than a one year contract. Below is a link that says one year. If you have a link that says differently I would be happy to read it.

http://www.nba.com/2011/news/12/11/suns-moves.ap/index.html

 

[Mainstreet]

If I could 100% guarantee Redd would remain healthy next year I'd rather keep Redd. But at this point I'd rather have Crawford if I had to chose. Just don't trust Redd to stay healthy.

He seems to have stayed healthy this season and I'm thinking he is the better player for the Suns.

 

[Mainstreet]

Yup. Hopefully this is misinformation, but our FO have shown that level of saavy yet.

If the Suns had a good FO my perspective on the team's future would greatly improve.

 

[hcsilla]

I could not find any information that Telfair signed more than a one year contract. Below is a link that says one year. If you have a link that says differently I would be happy to read it.

http://www.nba.com/2011/news/12/11/suns-moves.ap/index.html

http://www.storytellerscontracts.com/

http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/suns.jsp

 

[sunsfan88]

A poster on a different forum had this idea...what do you guys think?

Ok, im not to thrilled with this whole Crawford business. I read reports that he is the first player we go after, and i dont like the sound of that. Only way i would is if we surrounded Nash/Crawford with defenders, so here is my idea.

Step one in this "Re-Tooled" team is to amnesty Childress. Look, we are building a contender so Nash's final years arnt wasted. Riding ourselves of Childress's contract is a must and is why the owners fought for an amnesty clause.

Ok, go ahead and sign Crawford to a 3 year, $15M deal ($5M per season). Now Crawford shoots the ball at a good rate, but doesnt defend or rebound, so we need to find a FA SF that can do both. Enter Gerald Wallace. Sign this man up for a 4 year $50M. Wallace is a phenomenal defender and the best rebounding small forward. Both Crawford and Wallace heave chemistry, stemming from their time in Portland together. Makes it a bit easier for them to blend in to our starting 5. Once we land Wallace it makes it easier to land the next player on my list, Kevin Garnett.

Gerald Wallace is one of KG's favorite players (KG has often cited how Wallace plays the hardest in the NBA.. high praise). Garnett knows that BOS is looking at blowing up the Big 3 and rebuilding around some youngsters, this gives him the opportunity to make another run to gain a ring (or 2). Judging from comments on the Boston Board, it looks like he will be looking at a 2 year deal, around $5M a season. Give him that, i'd offer him up to $6M a year.

Now that the starting 5 is set, time to secure our bench. Re-sign Michael Redd 2 year $2M. Re-sign Grant Hill 2 year $5M. Both feasible deals, Redd is getting about $250K more than he did this season, and Hill will be getting about half of what he did, but now his role is smaller as well, as he would be coming off the bench. Re-sign Telfair to a 2 year $3M deal.

Sign Brandon Roy to a 2 year $2M deal (2nd year team option). It gives him another shot in the NBA, on a contender, where he wont have to log heavy minutes.

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Nash/Telfair
Crawford/Dudley/Redd
Wallace/Hill/Roy
Garnett/Morris/Warrick
Gortat/Frye

Wallace - $12M
Nash - $8M
Gortat - $7.2M
Frye - $6M
Garnett - $5M
Crawford - $5M
Warrick - $4.6M
Dudley - $4.2M
Hill - $2.5M
Morris - $2M
Telfair - $1.5M
Roy - $1M
Redd - $1M
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$60M <-- Leaves us around $2M to sign our rookie.

 

[hcsilla]

There is no way that we can build this team. Nor we should.

Gerald Wallace for 50 mil./4 years? I would hand the max. for Eric Gordon twice quicker than this for G-Will.

I doubt that Nash will sign for 8 mil. Garnett for 5 mil. is a pipe dream, he will get at least 10 mil. on the open market.

There is no way that Sarver will throw +20 mil. out of the window with amnestying Childress.

Otherwise it's a nice plan

 

[Phrazbit]

The day Nash retires that becomes a very expensive and very bad team, but not bad enough to get a decent pick.

The Pistons, Sixers and Knicks became expensive bottom dwellers by making dumb moves like giving a player of Gerald Wallace's caliber 50 million. The last thing we should do is follow that example.

And there are already 3 players on our roster that I would start at SG over Crawfish. That guy is oooooovvvvveeeeerrrrrraaaaaattttteeeeeeddd... and he isnt even rated all that high to begin with. A SG who cant pass, rebound, defend or shoot, but CAN gobble up 20 seconds of the shot clock with endless dribbling. Sounds like a winner. He would fit in about as miserably as Vince Carter did... only a much less talented version.

 

[Mainstreet]

Guys, Telfair is under contract next season for 1.5 mil, if the Suns don't waive him which is unlikely after his recent perfomance.

Just to update our conversation about whether Telfair is under contract next season. I saw a video linked on 4-23-12 by Paul Coro at azcentral. During a television interview (near the end of the video) Paul Coro tells Bruce Cooper on local television, channel 12, that the Suns have control of Telfair's destiny next season as his contract is partially guaranteed. This is good news for 2012-13. The video is well worth the watch as it covers his analysis of Suns players going into the future. The links you provided are correct but needed a little tweaking.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/2012/04/23/20120423phoenix-suns-video-paul-coro.html