Jerry:

-Would have signed Nash to the extension
-Would not have immediately extended Amare for max money yet.

Perhaps Kerr and Co. are doing things right. The godfather acknowledged the Nash signing was rolling the dice, yet necessary.

I think I may be a bit smarter after listening to Jerry Colangelo. I never thought I’d ever say that.

for team USA.

“If somebody wants to be part of it, they have to demonstrate it, they have to take some initiatives, [and] they have to be willing to pay the price.

because we all know that amaré probably won’t be doing that.

for team USA. he said, in response to a question of whether or not amaré would be a part of the next olympic team:

"That’s a hard one to call. I’ll be honest with you, we have enough players who want to be part of this. There’s no selling job that needs to be done on any player. So, if somebody wants to be part of it, they have to demonstrate it, they have to take some initiatives, they have to be willing to pay the price."

because we all know that amaré probably won’t be doing that.

Everyone stop hating! If we recall, Amare was on the team. Then the following season had the knee issues and surgery. So I can’t say I was surprised that he chose not to participate last year and let his body rest and heal going into the season. And like someone else mentioned, I was actually glad he didn’t as it meant a healthier Amare for the NBA season. Many other athletes have chosen to take time off and not play in the World’s or Olympics when they were coming off injuries. Ginobli played, and look what it did to him and the Spurs after he got hurt.

Finally, I wish everyone would stop ripping Amare for “not playing defense”. The kid came to the Suns out of high school and he developed exactly the type of game that D’Antoni and the Suns wanted back then. The Suns didn’t play team defense and didn’t foul….on purpose…because it slowed the game down. I’m not saying that he doesn’t need to work on some things. But everyone wants Amare to be KG….there’s only one KG and there are a lot of power forwards in the league that can’t be KG. But they do what they do well as does Amare. The Suns problems on defense aren’t just about Amare…it’s TEAM defense and TEAM rebounding that’s the issue. So we need guards that can lock down on the Kobe’s and Tony Parker’s of the league and that can rotate rather than give up open 3’s, a center that can play pick and role defense, and at least one “big” on the floor that will go after every rebound that he can, and that doesn’t have to be Amare.