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ShelC wrote: McD said it...next guy up. I think they anticipate Green leaving so we'll need to replace his shooting.

INFORMER wrote:

ShelC wrote: McD said it...next guy up. I think they anticipate Green leaving so we'll need to replace his shooting.

I hope that's not the rationale. You got three perimeter players on the roster that don't get any minutes, and that's not including Zoran. You got the other Bogdanovic overseas, and have the potentially two picks in the upcoming draft. No need to trade for a marginal prospect in some attempt to prepare for losing Gerald Green.

For those of you who haven't been on the board for years, or if you just need a little refresher on Traxxe's "window", here's a little info from the past. In short, he's never claimed to be an insider.

6/26/09-
Hey, I'm not an insider. I hear what some journalists hear is all. I might have a bag of lies from Front Offices, sometimes I get news a little early and sometimes I get good bits of useful info. I've said all I've heard on this. I don't have a big secret or anything.
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=918873&p=19965003#p19965003

6/26/09-
I've never claimed to be an insider mind you. I just have connections in the journalism field...

... if Tastic wants to pm me his email I'll email him the small connections I have.
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=918873&p=19964382#p19964382

7/02/09-
I qualify my statements that I'm not a great insider. I just am in a position hear things. But I can stop. It's no big deal to me. I'm wrong sometimes too. Lot of BS info gets tossed about to people with connections, etc.

Anyway, I just post what i hear. Don't take it as fact.

Well Traxxe, it sounds like whatever you are providing then is approximately at the level of news sources - like you hear it approximately when it is going to be released. Since that's the case I don't have a problem with it as long as you distinguish between your speculation and what you hear.
-Miklo (forum mod)
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8/13/09-
I am not an insider. I hear things that spill out of the organization from time to time a bit ahead of other peeps. I'm just saying what I hear. Take it for what it is worth.
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=937138&p=20528092#p20528092

2/17/10-
...I wil post as a fan as I mentioned earlier but didn't follow through with. As for my contacts, I've always said they were open to failure. Since I'm done here with inside info I'll open up and say generically that my brother is an ESPN sports writer and another person in my 'family' is engaged to a Suns reporter.
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=988047&p=22377818#p22377818

So, he's had a connection to Suns info by way of his brother being an ESPN writer (Dallas based, I believe) and via someone in his "family" marrying a Suns reporter...no info has come from a source inside the FO.

With NT's latest post, his info coming from inside the press have grown even less substantial (or legit?) by his own admission.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

The Suns are active trying to trade at the moment. I know some of the teams they have reached out to. I know that there are only a few untouchables on the roster I listed earlier.

I doubt they trade the twins unless we get something great back. I doubt we trade Dragic unless we get value. But I just don't know. I don't know if the stuff I started hearing this morning is or isn't tied to what is coming out in the press now.

I just know I was told today (this morning) the Suns are trying to make moves. My information is always second hand too so I don't know to what degree it is massaged in the process.

Think of my information as a compass that can provide general direction. Not specifics. I haven't gotten specifics in a couple of ears. The org doesn't give out info like they used to do. That's a good thing.

The Suns don't see themselves making the playoffs this year and they are trying to change that.

I am stating what I have heard.