DEAR NASH

[nash]

no idea gideon, ive havent had time to keep up lately, but it does seem like clearing cap space. which in itself is odd since Hill is basically playing for free lol.

Could they be clearing space to try to lure KG?

 

[gideon]

I think you are right about salary cap space -- supposedly they now clear some $9 million. But two first round choices!!!!!! Thats a whole lot. Of course, if Kevin G. comes in before the season starts then that becomes very clear what this expensive move was really about.

What do you think about the Rockets getting Steve Francis back? While Francis is not the same player as his first five years in the league, he gives them some firepower and is only 30 years old. Along with that South American forward they got last week they could be a much stronger team.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Hey Nash or any hoops fan... can you explain this?

The Seattle SuperSonics acquired veteran forward Kurt Thomas and the Phoenix Suns' first-round draft choices in 2008 and 2010 on Friday in exchange for a conditional second-round draft choice.

Why in the name of anything that is holy would the Suns trade a player plus two first round draft picks for a conditional second round choice?

I have been following the game for many years and this makes no sense to me.

Kerr mentioned he did this in order to keep the core together..Sounds like a money saving tactics.. But its the Suns so who cares..

And getting Garnett?... < LOL! DOnt think so..

He'll be a Laker.. Im serious.. All our wacky moves are a complex manuver to land The Big Ticket.

As for Houston getting Stevie Franchise back?.. *yawn*

Still a boring team...

 

[nash]

Why would Garnett want to go to the Lakers? He wants to WIN, not deal with bs and drama.

Fact remains, Garnett could be on the lakers and they'd still not be a championship contender next season. he knows this, you know this, we all know this. So why would he go there?

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Why would Garnett want to go to the Lakers? He wants to WIN, not deal with bs and drama.

Fact remains, Garnett could be on the lakers and they'd still not be a championship contender next season. he knows this, you know this, we all know this. So why would he go there?

Dont agree.. Lakers are proven winners, our recovery time over the last 30 years has always been very short.. Why?.. Because LA is where players come to be Legends, Win championships, play on the ultimate stage..

Garnett has a home in Malibu, and his union w/ Kobe would be just as effective, if not better, than Shaq and Kobe..

What has Phoenix done other than dissapoint in the end EVERY year?..

 

[nash]

Dont agree.. Lakers are proven winners, our recovery time over the last 30 years has always been very short.. Why?.. Because LA is where players come to be Legends, Win championships, play on the ultimate stage..

Garnett has a home in Malibu, and his union w/ Kobe would be just as effective, if not better, than Shaq and Kobe..

What has Phoenix done other than dissapoint in the end EVERY year?..

lol, what player on Phoenix can compare to a raw scorer like Kobe? And yet the past few years they still get farther than the Lakers do.

Keep crying, fact is your team is tainted. Kobe doesnt want to be there, and if he aint happy, the Lakers arent happy. period.

I think it's more disappointing to have a talent like Kobe and perform as poorly as they do.

Hell, you guys pratically had the dream team with payton and malone etc, and you still couldnt win it. what a DISSAPOINTING WASTE!!!

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

lol, what player on Phoenix can compare to a raw scorer like Kobe? And yet the past few years they still get farther than the Lakers do.

Keep crying, fact is your team is tainted. Kobe doesnt want to be there, and if he aint happy, the Lakers arent happy. period.

I think it's more disappointing to have a talent like Kobe and perform as poorly as they do.

Again, short recovery.. If we stay healthy, regardless of a big acquisition or not, watch the bandwagoneers hop back aboard..

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Hell, you guys pratically had the dream team with payton and malone etc, and you still couldnt win it. what a DISSAPOINTING WASTE!!!

Is that how youre going to feel this coming season when you guys get bounced out the playoffs again?..

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Nash should be a 3 time MVP... Hello...Waste...

 

[nash]

Is that how youre going to feel this coming season when you guys get bounced out the playoffs again?..

nope, i dont consider the PHX team a dream team caliber. If they lose, i will be disappointed, but with their given line up, a championship isnt really guaranteed.

With that lakers line up, it 'should' have been a guarantee, but you got ousted by a fairly new detroit team

 

[nash]

Nash should be a 3 time MVP... Hello...Waste...

Yeah he should have, but again, he makes people around him better. It's proven. His role is different than that of Kobe. Kobe can put up 60 a night if he wanted to. that's more of a WASTE imo.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

nope, i dont consider the PHX team a dream team caliber. If they lose, i will be disappointed, but with their given line up, a championship isnt really guaranteed.

With that lakers line up, it 'should' have been a guarantee, but you got ousted by a fairly new detroit team

I agree.. SHould have won.. We werent hungry.. They were.. Or maybe it was that ref..

 

[nash]

Is that how youre going to feel this coming season when you guys get bounced out the playoffs again?..

I'd be willing to put down a wager that my suns will get farther in the post season than your lakers. Im, serious, what do you think?

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

I'd be willing to put down a wager that my suns will get farther in the post season than your lakers. Im, serious, what do you think?

Good bet on your end.. Poor on mine.. But Ill happily accept..

 

[nash]

We'll talk once the season gets going.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Yeah he should have, but again, he makes people around him better. It's proven. His role is different than that of Kobe. Kobe can put up 60 a night if he wanted to. that's more of a WASTE imo.

In retrospect.. Payton was allready useless at that point.. And Malone injured his knee in the Minnesota series, he didnt play in the finals..

Shaq was at his fattest and seriouslly sucked.. Kobe was still Kobe, I think he won our only game at the buzzer...

I can see how we lost that one.

 

[nash]

typical, trying to rationalize it. I understand, it must have been a traumatic event losing to a team like Det with a dream team.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

typical, trying to rationalize it. I understand, it must have been a traumatic event losing to a team like Det with a dream team.

Last and only time PHX went to the finals David Robinson and Jordan were in the league and Barkley was skinney..

< LOL!!

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Maybe Gideons conspiracy theories` were correct..

Until further notice, the de facto championship series between San Antonio and Phoenix is tantamount to tainted.

Donaghy made one of the worst calls of the playoffs (a phantom, delayed foul on Manu Ginobili in a key late third-quarter run that awarded the Spurs three free throws), and he was part of an officiating crew that sent Suns star Amare Stoudemire to the bench with foul trouble, leaving him available for only 21 minutes in the game. Beyond that, there were plenty of missed calls, and dubious whistles. That game hangs over the league like an anvil now.

San Antonio was giving four points on the betting line and won 108-101. Those three Ginobili free throws pushed the Spurs to a six-point lead late in the third, and Phoenix never recovered. As it turns out, that is the last game Donaghy will ever officiate in the NBA.


I must say the past 2-3 years I have been wondering what game the refs are watching..

This is all such a shame IMO..