Gaddabout

You have to want to be able to play together well to play together well.

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Before I saw him, I could figure things out. He was the first guy I saw close-up and just didn't get what he was doing. Josh Freese on Vinnie Colaiuta

Rivercard

It's right up there with injuring yourself by answering the phone.

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Budden

Marcin Gortat and a throw-in for Amare Stoudemire!

Phrazbit

I hope this was a joke. If the Suns wanted Amare on that contract they could have had him. Stoudemire has negative trade value right now. The Knicks couldnt give him away unless they threw in something of value with him.

Budden

Doesn't that make us, like, an old folks home? D'Antoni, Marbury, Penny, Tim Thomas, Amar'e.. heck, Channing Frye was left for dead after he got caught in Larry Brown's dog-house after showing promise as a rookie Knick. Maybe this is just a brief respit for Frye, but eventually, the Knicks will take him.

Whatever may be the case, I know one thing for sure: don't let the Suns medical staff near your knee(s). They aren't good at operating on knees, but they're even worse at rehabbing knees. Grant Hill was given the green light to play professional basketball 11 days after having surgery for a torn meniscus. And despite the facts that he is 39, or is a human being, the Suns doctors looked at images of his knee and were like "looks good to me!" Or after 3 months they said Amare was ready to go, the advice which led to a surgery on his other knee. I guess at that point, it was probably Amar'e's fault to keep listening to the Suns doctors when they said he was ready to play by late January, exacerbating his injuries and causing others. He played four games that season. Penny played for games 5 years earlier. One year before that, Tom Gugliota miraculously recovered from an MCL/ACL/a bunch of other tendons after 7 months!

I don't remember.. The year after Googs' became a free agent - I mean, after the season Googs rode the Suns' bench when he opted in for the final year of his max sallary - he bounced around to Utah or somewhere before ending up in the Madison Square Graveyard..

dodie53

what a move!

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"Above and Beyond"

-- Steve Nash

"I don't even care how much I score.
I just want to win."
-- Ron Artest

JCSunsfan

Well. Amare finally attacked the glass!

jibikao

What was he so mad about? Losing to Heat? lol Heat isn't exactly a trash team...

crisper57

Robin Lopez thinks that was dumb.

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boisesuns

Combination of things. He's had a rough last year, he knows he's not playing like he was, nor is he the player he was, things with his death in the family, and Playing with Melo shoots so much, they have no offensive flow.

Not giving him a pass, that was a dumb thing to do. Life is different for Amare now in a lot of ways.

asudevil83

i thought this was hilarious

Phrazbit

thats too good

Mainstreet

These are my feelings. Once he was considered to be the future of the Suns franchise.

Again I agree Amare made a dumb mistake but I like that he cares.

Also he did not majorly dump on the Suns when he left.

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CardsFan88

Maybe he finally realized he ain't going nowhere. He's locked into a contract as well as other players, and he's going to be mired on a mediocre team until his career is over?

If not, he should have.

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99+ percent fall into this category in regards to economics epitomized in a quote by Jack Nicholson from "A Few Good Men"...."You can't handle the (economic) truth". That's a fact. When the tsunami comes, what do you think will happen to the clueless ostriches? All so needless. All so certain. Don't blame me that the economists don't know economics one bit. Blame yourself for believing in the false dichotomy of competing ivory tower wizards.

SB Victory....In the Cards....someday?!?

Budden

Did not majorly dump on the Suns? He handled his transition from the Suns (I say "transition" because the Suns were actively exploring trade options up until the trade deadline, etc. that when he actually signed with the Knicks it felt like a whole saga ended) as well as I've seen a superstar do it over the last decade. He never let it become a distraction; instead, Grant Hill said that 2010 team had the best comraderie of any team he'd ever been a part of, including his Duke years. I wonder if former members of Lebron's final Cavs' team, or the Nuggets team before Melo finally forced his way out, or this year's Magic team, will look back on those teams with the same fondness Hill has for the 2010 Suns.

The full-page ad in the Republic thanking Phx fans for all their support was a nice touch, as well. But the fact that Suns fans don't look back on that season as "Amare's contract year" says a lot about his character.

Oh, and I absolutely was serious about trading Gortat for Amare. I'd do it in a heartbeat. Although, the one good thing about Gortat is that you know he would never have the balls to get into an altercation with a fire hydrant, and even if he did, he would likely only suffer a minor bruise to his palm (from slapping at the glass with his eyes closed) and a bruised tailbone (I can't think of a witty way to say this, but the point is, Gortat would fall down in a rumpled heap after impact).