Richardson for Jamison

J-Rich as a leading scorer isn’t that big a problem, it’s J-Rich as the best player on your team that’s the problem. As long as Nash is here J-Rich is the much better fit as a scorer and probably the best compliment to Nash on the entire team.
  
We shouldn’t get rid of J-Rich for a lesser player just to become a more traditional team.

Antawn ended up being the centerpiece of some of the worst Wizards teams that they’ve ever fielded. They were best when he was a 3rd option offensively.

Wizards will be better this year, Gilbert or not. Watch for JaVale McGee. He’ll be 2nd in the league in blocks this year. Only the coach stands in the way…

And just give up Earl and Janning for him.

why the Suns wanted him.

Seems like a pretty bad contract for a guy who is interchangeable with 6 or 7 other players on the roster who make less money.

Have you ever gone to the store intending to buy a particular product, but when you got there they were out and instead you winded up overpaying for some piece of junk that doesn’t even come close to doing the job of what you really wanted in the first place?

The Suns can empathize.

And that’s why the lack of games on TV sucks hind udder. But thank the heavens for the Internet – it even lets you rewind
  As far as what we’ve seen, I think we can say that our starting unit is fine, our second unit has some gelling to do, and our 11-15 (17) guys can’t hold a lead – but they can play some ball. You can’t get bound up in stats – the sample size is small, differences are exaggerated, I could sample 5 games last year and prove to you that Amar’e is a 22 rebound per game guy. While scoring 32. I’m also very surprised at the difference in what I’ve seen in the spotty pre-season coverage I’ve witnessed and what I’ve read – reading would lead you to believe that we sucked the entire game, but in reality, we found some very bad combinations for short periods of time. We’ve got a very good, very athletic, very smart team. We’ve got a ton of depth. We are certainly, absolutely going to get better every game – this is not a team that will regress.
  Gentry is taking it for a test drive – seeing how it handles before he opens it up. The race ain’t started yet. Insert awkward cliche’ here.

JRich is good trade bait because he’ll likely have a career year scoring (1st option this year w/o Amare), and he’s coming off last year’s exemplary postseason performance, which has people thinking him to be a clutch performer. But it’s not just JRich.

Warrick’s contract is a bargain by NBA standards for a quality backup player, and his last year isn’t fully guaranteed, so he’d be attractive to any team whose plan requires them to rebuild in about 4 years.

Dudley is already worth far more than his contract. He’ll be a restricted FA at the end of the year, but typing up rights to make the Qualifying Offer is a bigger deal than usual, considering that a new CBA is looming which may make it a LOT less expensive to retain him for another few years afterwards.

Childress has the potential to significantly outplay his contract as well, in which case the amount of his contract might be rolled up with 1-2 other midsalary type players and traded for someone really good.

Lastly, there’s Dragic and Lopez. Nobody here really wants to see either of these players go, as they represent the future, and potential. However, if moving one of these 2 guys would make it possible to bring back a Chris Paul or Carmelo Anthony, one would have to think that management would be willing to pull the trigger and send them packing.

In short, the Suns, as presently constructed, are built with the goal of trading multiple players who outplay their contracts, for another star/superstar. Will we succeed in that? We don’t know, but we’d all like to think so.

but that is no longer the case. Frye is young and his defense is improving. Jameson is on his way down. His defense, always bad, has devolved to the point where it’s just completely atrocious.

Thanks for the belly laugh.
   But seriously, they may be stupid enough to let him go – or they may do something completely unpredictable.
I just don’t want this franchise to do something dumb in a panic. We aren’t going to get Amar’e back, or even a reasonable facsimile by going for a power forward who is available. We probably can’t even improve on Warrick by doing that. It will take a long term plan, some guile, and a lot of luck to sign a franchise player – and there are a lot fewer franchise players than there are franchises. Hell, we may even have a stud in Lawal, judging from reports. Or maybe the light comes on in Clark’s brain, or D. Collins takes Europe by storm. But knee jerk reactions aren’t what is called for until we know the structure of the new CBA – then, maybe we package 3 players and a pick or two, and get someone to go with our core of Lopez/Dragic/Frye/Childress/Dudley to carry us into the next five years. And yeah, Turkoglu may be an important cog in that machine.

for sure