Amare Extension/Trade Flow Chart

I find this idea quite amusing. What promote Griffin? Someone else? I don’t see it. I don’t see how blaming Kerr for the ambiguity of Amar’e’s career does anything.

Amare only walks if the ownership group doesn’t want to outbid another suitor. Amare will go to the highest bidder and the Suns retain that right. If they choose not too, its on the whole ownership group, not just the GM.

BTW, Kerr is not just a GM, he’s also an owner. He will not be fired anytime soon and not for this.

You could argue that this season Maggette is the more efficient player, he is having his best year ever. Stat puts up 20 and 9 in a high pace system. Good but nothing to write home about.

Let’s compare:
Maggette 22.38 PER, 64.9 TS%, 11.5% Rebound Rate, 12.2% TO Rate
Stoudamire 20.54 PER, 61.4 TS%, 14.1% Rebound Rate, 12.6% TO Rate

This year the two are remarkably comparable. Sure Maggette plays on the wing more but this makes the fact his TS and Rebound % are better or close to Amares more remarkable.

Someone should do some research but when was the last time a team won a championship when their best big man had a 31 inch waist. I like Amare, love his mid range game, athelticism. But if the Suns give him any more than 14 million they are really stupid and are potentially setting themselves up for a crippling cap situation in the future when all that money is guaranteed and Stat cares about rebounding and defense even less than in his contract year. Really good offensive 4. Not much else. Plus a history of injuries.

but for half the price it’s better than having to give up assets for Amare when Maggette puts up near equal production.

With who to get Stat the ball? He isn’t particularly great at getting his own shot off as he relies on athelticism a ton.

Chris Hunter? Devean George?

SERIOUS talent right there.