Monday, July 12th, 2010 at 9:00 am  |  63 responses

Hedo Turkoglu Close to Being Traded for Leandro Barbosa

by Marcel Mutoni / @marcel_mutoni

The rocky marriage between Hedo Turkoglu and the Toronto Raptors is on the verge of coming to an end. Prepare yourselves for Hedo, Arizona.

Late last night, the AZ Republic reported that a trade between Phoenix and Toronto will soon be completed, sending Leandro Barbosa and a few spare parts back to Canada for Turkoglu.

And oh yeah, the Suns are also going to land Josh Childress, who’s apparently decided that he’s had enough of Greece:

The Suns are on the verge of acquiring forwards Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress, swiftly rebounding from the loss of Amar’e Stoudemire with two impact players.

The Suns would send seven-year veteran guard Leandro Barbosa and late-season addition Dwayne Jones to Toronto for Turkoglu, a 6-foot-10 forward from Turkey with versatile skills to shoot from long range and be a playmaker. Toronto would then move Jones and its trade exception from the Chris Bosh sign-and-trade deal to Charlotte for former Suns forward Boris Diaw.

Phoenix will send a 2012 second-round pick to Atlanta in a sign-and-trade deal for Childress, who will leave Greece for a five-year, $33 million contract to play for the Suns. To come to Phoenix, Turkoglu is yielding about $5 million of his trade kicker and reducing the guaranteed money on the final year of his contract, which was worth $12 million in 2013-14. He also has an early termination option on that season.

It’s a tad confusing that Phoenix would willingly take on Hedo’s contract, when they were so adamant about not overpaying for Amar’e Stoudemire. That being said, Phoenix has been able to keep their team competitive since STAT’s departure.

The same thing, however, cannot be said for Toronto. That squad is going to be awful next season.

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  • http://www.euroleague.net/competition/all-decade/main-page/i/64902/4259/euroleague-all-decade-selection-theodoros-papaloukas?lang=en&itemid=64902&mid=4259&tabid=1143&itemname=EUROLEAGU PAPALOUKAS (click on my name)

    by the way, the same day we get rid of Josh, we aquire one of the top-10 combo guards in the world (SPANOULIS) from panathinaikos !!!! Great day for Olympiakos!!!!

  • ClydeSays

    Funny how 1 decent season will land you a fat contract, and when the player goes back to underachieving he gets bounced from team to team hoping the guy will catch fire again. Never works out.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    I wouldn’t of minded if we re-upped with Stoudemire….just saying.

  • http://dsjkflf.com Jukai

    Spanny: Have fun now that your co-MVP has left for the better league and your team has no one to attack the basket. Spanoulis couldn’t blow past a 17-year-old kid named Rubio, He is a fantastic zone attacker, but seems inept at getting his buckets if he’s manned up (as his stint on the Rockets showed). Of course, now that you have him, I guess you wont have to worry that he’ll whip the living sh*t out of your team again like he did in the Cup.
    If he could gear himself into a full-time point guard, it’d be one thing, but Spanoulis lovesssss to score. He’s the Tracy McGrady of Europe, you know.
    Good move for the price tag, but certainly not an upgrade.

  • Jess

    see ya Turk. thanks for nothing. Im excited for the YoungGunz next season.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Am I missing something here? wth is the TPE?

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Yo JOE, where you at? You still think Jeremy Lin shouldn’t have been picked ahead of Andy Rautins?!

  • JoeMaMa

    hahaha yes Teddy, because Rautins is a shooter and D’Antoni likely said “best case, he gets a couple 3s a game. Worst case, he’s not guaranteed and we’ll use the space to get more cap space for….Carmelo, maybe?”
    Teddy, if you want Lin that bad, talk to Colangelo. If this Calderon trade goes through, we’ll need a PG on the bench. I’ll sign the petition and I’ll even wear a hybrid Harvard/Hogtown jersey.

  • Ali Duyar

    Nash makes everyplayer better.Hedo made 17,8PPG 5,8Assist and 5,6 rebound when he won the MIP award in Orlando.He also MVP of the Orlando for the NBA finals.He can take these numbers again(maybe better) with Nash and Hill(his ex-teammate).

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com Hursty

    More minutes for Dragic if Barbossa goes.

  • hobbes

    Magic should trade VC for Hedu. He was the key play maker for them and without him Lewis is less effected just like Nash to Amare n Deron to Boozer.

  • http://jayemmbee.blogspot.com/ ClutchPerformer

    I was all for Hedo and even said give him a chance, my motto throughout the season was he wasnt MJ of Turkey we wanted but we got a good facilitator who was paid too much, but hearing his haterade makes me say good riddance and good luck to ya’ll PHX , poor Nashty. Barbosa is good at least we didnt go euro. Raps it aint gonna be easy, we wont complete ish. assuming the roster stays the same til opening but Andrea doesnt wanna be the man, Jack is good, and the rest are young who cant hit a jump Shot without D, i love weems, jack, Demar and Amir, if Andrea can step his game up and become a Trailer this might work better, be we still need someone, or this is gonna b a bumpy ride

  • http://tommyisvishuz.ning.com Tommy V.

    @stevea Rubio to Toronto doesnt sound too far-fetched.

    Toronto is not going to be bad as ppl expect them to be. This means more shots for players like Bargnani. I know he is ready to be the man on this team.

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