More Steve Nash Trade Speculation - This Time Portland?

I thought BSOTS had cornered the market on “pulling a trade out your ass…”

Here’s the link

Basically he likes the Nash for Felton, Batum and cash idea. Not as bad as Felton and scrubs, but still not great knowing we can just sign Batum as a FA if we really wanted him.

His other ideas are pretty awful (especially the Boston one, of course), but the Pacers trade wasn’t as terrible. Collison + 1st rd pick for Nash is palatable because Collison is young, and the pick could turn out decent.

Of course this is just Bill’s rosterbation session with zero credibility.

If the Suns are going to try to offer Nash another two year extension for around $8-10 mil a year after the season is over, then I would much rather keep him. However, if they plan on letting him walk after the season regardless, then I would rather get something for him now, since there’s little to no chance of making the playoffs this season anyway.

If they do deal him though, I would definitely look for a deal somewhere that includes a first round pick…Like the Collison + a 1st round pick deal from Bill Simmons that ajcarelton mentioned above. This draft is loaded with talent, and adding another first round pick would be worth much more to this team in the long run than just some role players on expiring contracts.

Personally, I would attempt to keep Nash for a couple more seasons…We simply won’t get a better value in free agency, and there aren’t any point guards in the draft this year that I would be comfortable with starting immediately to help turn this team around.

whenever they talk about the suns, its always a losing proposition for PHX. They just want to see good teams get better. Essentially, its the same lopsided deals we throw around here, only this is lopsided towards the other team. So, of course… F-that.

I kind of like sending Nash to the Pacers for Collison and a pick, or to Utah for Devin Harris and a pick. I’d like to see Nash happy while playing for a winning team.

Felton and Batum will be free agents just like Nash. The only thing that is guaranteed to be ours for more than a half a season is the first round pick.

We trade him to ourselves. In exchange, we amnesty Childress and let Lopez walk as a FA. The salaries match!

Is the trade Simmons came up with to send Nash to the Celtics.
Nash-Hill-Gortat to Boston
Rondo-O’Neal-Dooling to Phoenix
Boston has a good 8 man rotation to make one last title run: Nash-Allen-Pierce-Garnett-Gortat-Hill-Wilcox-Pietrus. They get an ungodly amount of cap space this summer, and could maybe keep a lot of these guys on homer contracts to keep momentum going.
Rondo is a player to build around. I have never heard any legit trade scenario where we get a player as good as Rondo back. Young, great contract, All-Star, champion, selling point to FAs

Why didn’t Hollinger just write: "Trade one of my favorite NBA players (Steve Nash) to one of my two favorite NBA teams (Portland and Atlanta) for a player fans of my team all hate with a passion (Felton) and some ambiguous end-of-bench “youths” whose names we won’t remember in 24 hours."

Its so fucking true! The media and people like Hollinger use their power to try and make things happen in the real world. They make up shit like this in order to get fans talking in an attempt to make ownership do what he wants them to do.

Fucking moron. If I ever mean John Hollinger I will kick him in his throat. What a n00b.