Want to fix the Suns? Trade Amare for Marion

by akaespo on Jan 27, 2009 4:31 PM MST

It’s outlandish, it’s preposterous, it’s unthinkable and it’s just crazy enough that it might work.

Trade Amare Stoudemire straight up for Shawn Marion. The salaries work out according to ESPN.com’s trade machine.

Let that marinate for a second.

Marion is what the Suns need in the short term and cap space is what they can use in the long term.

The Heat are ready to pull the trigger because Marion has fallen short of expectations. They are desperate to get rid of him before the deadline in hopes of being able to find a piece to go along with Dwayne Wade and Michael Beasley.

The Suns may be willing to do it because Stoudemire has not been “the man” like everyone expected him to be in Phoenix this year. His rebounding and points are down and the they are beginning to think about life without him....

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Hell. No.

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by Seth Pollack on Jan 27, 2009 4:34 PM MST reply actions

agreed.

hell. no.

by Trevor Paxton on Jan 28, 2009 11:41 PM MST up reply actions

Not straight up.......

………..Maybe marion and chalmers

by cabezonication on Jan 27, 2009 4:55 PM MST reply actions

that would be great...

marion would come back ready to run-n-gun, with his great defense, and be the catalyst to the fast break, and his contract expires at the end of this season. Then with chalmers you get a true backup PG, who also plays great D, and he played uptempo in college at KU.

by Aluminum Foyle on Jan 27, 2009 7:56 PM MST up reply actions

Yeah, Trix+Chalmers

But no way to Matrix straight up.

Steve Nash, the league's MVP, is a longhaired Canadian who spoke out against the war in Iraq and reads The Communist Manifesto. Quentin Richardson declared after a game-winning shot that it "was like Hamlet. It was a suspense thriller, and I killed them at the end." Amare Stoudemire, when asked to comment on a 22-point third quarter against the Kings, said, "I've got a tendency to jump over some guys' heads and throw it down."

by rsavaj on Jan 27, 2009 9:39 PM MST reply actions