has been eager to make deals at great expense (see Kurt Thomas).

I hope they work out and he’s a genius!

Goran Drago (yes I know it’s Dragic) looks like he’ll be pretty solid. I just hope and pray we can get him here very soon. He’ll need all the play time he can get if he is to become the heir to Nash (at least Kerr says he’s to become the heir). I wonder just how hard their going to push is Euroball club to get him over here? Kerr made it sound like they were going to do everything in their power to make it happen.

We’ll see

But what about the lack of Strawberry? I guess someone’s not ready for primetime. And they could be looking at Barbosa as a 2 guard. But that’s just me guessing.

I’ve always seen him as a 2 man who can handle the point. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about a 2nd round pick in my life. They have been talking him up a lot, but it’s just hard to tell how good he’s going to be by watching a few highlights and a workout. I hope we can get him ASAP.. partly just because I wanna see him play.

Can’t we just pass the hat for Goran? If 10000 fans donate $10 to Goran, we have him. Of course, If I was that good at raising money, I wouldn’t be working an office job.

So he has a buyout of varying values. Not really sure how the Suns should look at that as a buyout doesn’t contribute to the cap (I don’t think). If the Suns feel has value at the $1.5m buyout as suggested above, then it should just give them the rights to negotiate his contract. Then that next number will count to the cap.

I am a Kings fan living in Phx and I wanted him for my team. I think it would be a great p/u and I think Sarver has enough $$ for the buyout before negotiating the contract that would count.

I/ pretty certain that any buyouts do not count against the cap, but there is a limit to how much a team can contribute towards that buyout—it used to be $500k, but might be higher now. In any case, if Tau Ceramica holds firm, the Suns can only contribute a partial amount to the buyout, and the Dragic will have to work that out for himself, either come up with the difference, or wait a year.

We Suns fans have seen this dance before, though. Jake Tsakalidis dropped to the Suns at 25 a few years back because his overseas contract was considered too difficult to break, and teams didn’t want to take a chance on burning a lottery pick on a 7-footer who might not be available. It was considered a great pick for the Suns at the time because Jake was projecting as a lottery talent player. As it turned out, the Suns were able to get Jake out of his contract (yay!) immediately, but, as we all know, Jake played about as well as the average player picked at 25…that is to say, not all that. One out of two ain’t bad, but let’s hope the scouts are a little more on target with this one.