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According to the Miami Herald's Barry Jackson, they'd like to make a run at Sacramento's Omri Casspi and Ben McLemore, Denver's Randy Foye, Phoenix's Mirza Teletovic, Milwaukee's Jerryd Bayless and Brooklyn's Wayne Ellington.

Mirza for Miami?

Doesn't make any sense as far as assets. Unless you really like Stokes and a couple of expirings. I doubt you want McBob or the rest of his contract.

Prospect. Whatever prospect. You extract that from Miami and you have turned nothing into something. Miami needs 3pt badly.

Edit: hohoho can you imagine Riley going all in now and giving up Winslow? Not for just Teletovic, of course. Deng is expiring and has cache. A third team could need a jack of all trades SF with experience. The also have McBob's contract (yeah, that's a thing now) to throw in. Taking trash for youth/draft stock has to be implemented to a moderate extect. Look into taking the likes of Meeks, Singler, stuff like that and charge a fee.

carey wrote:

ShelC wrote:I just have a feeling Teletovic and PJ are going to be moved and NOT Kieff.

Which I am already on board saying I'm fine with. Really, though Kieff has been an asshole, my problem is more with the organization for not doing anything about it. Any discipline has been paltry and if it was intended to discourage certain behaviors it obviously didn't work. I don't want to set the organization back a ways in talent and compound the problem x 2 just to clear the slate. I know it's not a popular opinion but it is how I feel.

I fully support that part of your opinion. I, too, am more pissed at how stupid our Org has been, and less about Keef. Keef is just being him, and it isn't new. We should have known that. And this is coming from a guy that was happy with the 8M/year for him (not for Marcus, though).

But I am also of the opinion that you take action when you realize you effed up. You don't sit back and wait for your mistake to fix itself (they rarely do).

I keep coming here hoping to see a new trade thread. The deadline is tomorrow, correct? 9 pm PST?

OK, just looked it up. Tomorrow at noon Pacific.

Superbone wrote:I keep coming here hoping to see a new trade thread. The deadline is tomorrow, correct? 9 pm PST?

3PM EST.

Cool, I'm off tommorrow, I get to sit here and stare at twitter until something goes down.. Fun.

TheOriginalOriginal wrote:Cool, I'm off tommorrow, I get to sit here and stare at twitter until something goes down.. Fun.

Sweet. So you can be the designated guy that sends a group text to us when anything affecting the Suns happens. Glad you volunteered, TOO.

I really hope we do *something*, and that it is a future-looking move rather than a move to improve the rest of this current season or to build around the Bledsoe-Knight-Tucker-Chandler core.

djy2j wrote:

Mori Chu wrote:Why does Orlando want Lance Stephenson over Channing Frye? Lance is a cancerous chucker who has no value on the trade market, while Frye is a nice complementary stretch 4 and a good veteran in the locker room (though a bit past his prime).

They plan on waiving Lance. I believe he's a FA after this year. they get out from under Frye's contract.

Exactly. Also Frye is expendable now that they have Ilyasova and wanted to open things up for Gordon anyway. Orlando has a lot of youth, even if most of it doesn't fit together very well right now. I can see them moving one of their guards this off season. Or, would you trade Vucevic for Whiteside? Or consider moving Vucevic an asset and chase Whiteside in the summer?

Ring_Wanted wrote:Prospect. Whatever prospect. You extract that from Miami and you have turned nothing into something. Miami needs 3pt badly.

Edit: hohoho can you imagine Riley going all in now and giving up Winslow? Not for just Teletovic, of course. Deng is expiring and has cache. A third team could need a jack of all trades SF with experience. The also have McBob's contract (yeah, that's a thing now) to throw in. Taking trash for youth/draft stock has to be implemented to a moderate extect. Look into taking the likes of Meeks, Singler, stuff like that and charge a fee.

I'm totally on board with this strategy. I'd love to be on the other end of the Kurt Thomas move at least once.

Mori Chu wrote:I really hope we do *something*, and that it is a future-looking move rather than a move to improve the rest of this current season or to build around the Bledsoe-Knight-Tucker-Chandler core.

If indeed Knight is being made available and Booker is the only untouchable, then it would seem the front office has already moved on from that core.

my prediction. 3 team trade.. with some version of these parts.
Kieff+Mirza, Ben McLemore and Rudy Gay+ Miami sending out Hassan.
and somehow the suns end up with Michael Beasley again...............

I would offer Brandon Knight to Utah for Dante Exum and Trevor Booker. And yes, I know Exum is injured.

pickle wrote:I'm totally on board with this strategy. I'd love to be on the other end of the Kurt Thomas move at least once.

You'll not see a KT move for quite a while. Cap space just isn't as important as it once was. It may be some time in the future once owners go nuts with the new cap increase.

INFORMER wrote:I would offer Brandon Knight to Utah for Dante Exum and Trevor Booker. And yes, I know Exum is injured.

I'd do that trade in a heartbeat. But I can't see Utah pulling it... Exum was a pretty big part of their defensive surge post-all star break last year, wasn't he?

DrSublime wrote:my prediction. 3 team trade.. with some version of these parts.
Kieff+Mirza, Ben McLemore and Rudy Gay+ Miami sending out Hassan.
and somehow the suns end up with Michael Beasley again...............

He's playing in China. So that would be odd.

carey wrote:

pickle wrote:I'm totally on board with this strategy. I'd love to be on the other end of the Kurt Thomas move at least once.

You'll not see a KT move for quite a while. Cap space just isn't as important as it once was. It may be some time in the future once owners go nuts with the new cap increase.

You'll have to forgive this Suns fan's day dream once in a while.