Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 9:00 am  |  138 responses

Welcome to the Amare Derby

by Marcel Mutoni

As soon as it became public knowledge that the Phoenix Suns were willing to listen to trade offers for Amare Stoudemire, practically every one of their foes has expressed interest in the opportunity to land the freakishly-skilled forward.

According to CBS Sports, the Suns are in talks with no less than half a dozen teams about a possible trade:

The Phoenix Suns have engaged in trade talks with at least five or six teams, including the Pistons, Bulls, Nets, and Warriors, in their efforts to find the best offer for Amare Stoudemire, multiple league sources told CBSSports.com.

In the past 48 hours, the Suns’ posture on Stoudemire has advanced from accepting calls to placing them, an indication that they’ve accelerated efforts to pull off sweeping changes before the Feb. 19 trade deadline.

My favorite trade scenario for Amare is the Detroit one. And of course, he loves it too:

“It would be phenomenal. I think the fans here have been probably the top fans in the world since I’ve been in the NBA. They’re always cheering their team on and every time we come here, their always loud and rowdy, so it would be fun to play here.”

A team where everyone has a heart attack whenever the idea of one of the stars coming off the bench is brought up, bringing in a guy who so nakedly covets being “The Man”? Perfect!

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  • http://www.kicksonfire.com Anton

    Young Chris MP3 fails. Hard. Is your idea of “tough” defense fouling so much that your playing time gets halved? Sure he rebounds, but I’d take A’m~a;re’s instant offense over Chandler’s one better stat( pun intended).

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    they’ve been trying to trade both of them for the past month, dumba.ss

  • http://allday-fadeaway.blogspot.com nbk

    NOt for players that are worse sooper dumb*ss. Especially Amar’e, if you give him up your getting more then just Wallace, or McGrady, and if your giving up 2 all stars and are not getting any in return you know your getting screwed. (well you should know, but obviously you dont) idiot

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    you get rasheed wallace, and tracy mcgrady. neither contract is a long term commitment. you get a young player in carl landry. kerr wants expiring contracts, and a young player. done.

  • http://allday-fadeaway.blogspot.com nbk

    Considering McGrady still has 2 years left and is not playing like an all star that would be a waste of 40 million dollars. The suns don’t want to make a trade and become worse, and when they are looking for young talent they are looking for players that are developing not guys that are maxed out. And Shaq puts more money in the bank then McGrady and his contract is up the same year. You do not get anything out of adding McGrady to the suns except a smile on your stupid face

  • http://allday-fadeaway.blogspot.com nbk

    And an expiring contract is a contract that is expiring not one that has 20 million dollars on it. Your so beyond clueless I dont think your going to figure out how stupid you are any time soon. Here if you own an xbox360 and have an nba game, play a franchise as houston or detroit and try your little 3 way trade. The computer wont even be stupid enough to accept that. Unless you play as the Suns who are the team getting screwed the most in this situation

  • JESSEG

    It makes no Sense to me how you would trade your only young player you could build around with all the money coming off the books in a year and to completly change your team for a 36 year old center who can’t play everygame and is gone in a year too. On top of that Shaq isnt good enough to carry this team to a championship anyway. Steve Kerr is dumb!

  • http://allday-fadeaway.blogspot.com nbk

    Thats why he is trying to trade Shaq as well Jesse

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    the idea is to not lose money financially when he gets rid of those players, because he already has that incentive if he keeps them. that’s why he wants expiring contracts. he said he wants expiring contracts — i’m not trying to give them some sort of merit that they don’t have. McGrady’s contract runs up either the year Amare’s does, or the year before. I don’t feel like looking. The fact that you suggested I test the trade on a video game only further discredits you.

  • kingofsota

    i still don’t understand why this wouldn’t work: bulls give up hinrich, deng, and tyrus thomas or drew gooden, in exchange for amare from the suns. both teams get what they need; chicago will finally have the post presence they need and the suns will have a bright YOUNG future, not the old decrepid one of nash, shaq, hill.

  • JESSEG

    I still think it would be dumb to trade Amare. He is only 26. You will not be able to get a more talented young player to build around in the future.

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    jesse: I personally agree. But there’s no way Kerr is going to admit he messed up trying to fix something that wasn’t broken…so he’s as good as gone.

  • JC

    hope he goes to NOH…. CP3 DWest and Amare would light it up yo

  • donlaker

    shaq hates terry porter, amare does too
    but the knicks cant afford both of them so they will go for amare , to team him with king james
    and yes steve kerr will be back next to marv albert soon calling games (not nbalive09) and nash……….

  • donlaker

    is it me or do the lakers make other teams make moves because of them.. it is safe to say boston and clevland are suprised the lakers got the job done in the east . like rhianna said to chris brown…..dont call me i will call you

  • JamesPH

    why dont phoenix fire terry porter and steve kerr?? these guys are ruining the team from the get go. what sarver should do is get him some slick GM like that guy in portland, ripping off teams. trade everyone except amare, make him the building block of the team. its not like talented big men grow on trees

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    Terry Porter and a 1st Round Draft pick for Don Nelson. ehh?

  • R1se Above All

    steve kerr sucks bigtime! first marion, then d’antoni, then diaw and bell, so why not trade the whole team! or maybe, why not trade himself!

  • jose

    That’d be crazy if marion got shipped back to phoenix(i wouldn’t want them to send beasley tho)maybe haslem and james jones to go with matrix to phx.?

  • BostonBaller

    Some of this trade talk is crazy and simply a wish list by posters…Forget balancing the salary caps, after reading this stuff I doubt if some of the posters can balance their check book. for example: mare to Wizards..Helllloooo, he wants to be THE MAN therefore IF Arenas comes back and stays back, that theory is toast.
    it’s great to invision CP3 passing to Amare but that’s what the ASG is for..lol

  • The Promise

    This is getting interesting guys.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXuolMTzuz0 Nbk

    JE the fact that I said try it on a video game means that using the most basic knowledge possible – ratings in a video game try the trade. Because McGrady’s contract has 2 years left, as well as Shaq’s while Amar’e Has 2 years and an option for a 3rd which he will likely decline no matter what. The fact that you consider Tracy’s McGrady’s “expiring” (its not F***N an expiring contract if it does not expire idiot. Every contract can be called expiring under your fantasy definition.) contract more valuable then Amar’e or Shaq just speaks volumes toward how big of a clueless person you are. Your not right, plane and simple, the suns would not give up amar’e for Tracy Mcgrady, and they wont give him up for just Rasheed Wallace. And the Suns would NEVER give up Shaq for tracy mcgrady, or Shaq for just rasheed wallace. I hope not an adult making outrageous trade ideas like this. I am actually ashamed of myself for even caring that someone can be so clueless

  • http://www.yahoo.com Royal

    Amar’e to Oklahoma City fof jeff green, Nick Collison and a second round draft pick

  • http://www.yahoo.com Royal

    For not fof……………..

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    getting Bosh would be the only scenario that could possibly be better for the suns. the only credible way anyone on here could have possibly argued with that trade would be from Houston’s perspective. but I’ve said the same thing like 5 times now, and I don’t feel like doing it again. So f.uck off, kid.

  • http://www.jcherot.blogspot.com Tripset30

    Believe it or not, I was with you JE… until you mentioned Yao Ming at the four (omg). Although it might not be for a long period of time given Shaq’s age, the Rockets would pretty much have the slowest front court in NBA history.

    It’ll be interesting to see where this cat STAT ends up.

  • http://www.manutd.com Z

    Thinking about Amar’e and Bron on the same team makes me feel dizzy.

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    trip: In hindsight, given Rick Adleman’s style, Shaq off the bench would be more realistic. However, I could see it being a scenario where the starting lineup would include both players simply for the sake of pleasing them, while the bulk of the game would have one or the other on the floor. haha, as if it would happen.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXuolMTzuz0 Nbk

    In hindsight given common sense that trade would never happen ever your an idiot.

  • clos1881

    The Suns are crazy for thinking of trading STAT the trade that I came up with for them is Shaq to the hornets for tyson chandler the suns team is built to play uptempo they just need interior defense and rebounding I dont understand the logic of trading Amare @ 26 and keeping nash at like36

  • http://www.slamonline.com Jack

    @ Eboy’s first post. Kwame. I’d laugh at Shaq’s stat line when Kwame Brown has to be his sidekick. Or to put it properly, side-hick.

  • Waylonakolipse

    Amare should go to the Warriors. GS can also offer the most talent for trade. Monta, Crawford, Maggette, etc. They’ll also have a top 10 pick and they can throw in young talent. Such as Morrow, Randolph, or Wright. All of these players can flourish with Nash. Imagine Amare, Jackson, and Biedrins in that frontcourt!

  • http://www.nba.com JE

    nbk: it was acknowledged the trade would never happen in my first comment. doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea.

  • SilkCityP

    Amar’e is a beast, but to keep it g… He’s an underachiever & lazy!!! Just look at it from this perspective… If Amar’e was averaging 25 pts, 12 rbds & 2 blocks a game, does anybody think Phoenix would have a record of 28-22 and out of the playoff picture at this point? He’s definitely got potential to be a monster but he’s got to start calling for the rock, they should be feeding the offense through him. He needs to be committed to rebounding & playing D… until than he’s just an underachiever!

  • j.mitch

    amare to l.a for bynum and a first or second round pick amare and kobe championship to the lakers.what do you think or amare to the bucks for bogut and first round pick let me know

  • brooklyn

    amare aint goin 2 l.a the suns want expiring contracts so they can rebuild so i would say either miami or chicago miami could trade back marion because his contract expires next year so maybe there idk

  • http://nextgg.com DMC14

    Mcgrady playing the 4 for the suns no thankyou. if it happens they better get a decent 4 back. i like the marion and beasley trade someone suggested wether its even possible i dont know also like the idea of hinrich and a few other polayers.

    in Live 09 i traded shaq for tyson chandler and it was a really good team!!! lol

  • DWall

    amare and marion were both one dimensional players…and that just hasnt work since rodman and the jordan. mario was no rodman, and amare is no jordan.

    you cant win if your 4 cant defend. defense wins championships, and amare cant defend.

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