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play defense in Phoenix and you are expendable.
Suns trade Thomas, picks to Seattle
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns...traded-CR.html
Suns trade Thomas, picks to Seattle
Team also re-signs Marks
Paul Coro
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 20, 2007 09:01 AM
The Suns traded center Kurt Thomas this morning in a move that relieves some salary-cap pressure.
Thomas goes to the Seattle SuperSonics, along with the Suns' own 2008 and 2010 first-round draft picks in exchange for a future conditional 2nd round pick and a trade exception, worth about $8 million.
The league's new luxury tax threshold -- the number at which teams would begin to be taxed -- came in different from what the Suns expected, at $67.9 million, and would have left Phoenix more than $10 million over that number.
The Suns also re-signed Sean Marks. If draft picks Alando Tucker and D.J. Strawberry make the team, that would leave Phoenix with one roster position open. They will be looking to fill it with a free-agent front-line player.
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play defense in Phoenix and you are expendable.
Cheap Ass Suns
The Suns owner is cheaper than Holt.
THIS MOVE SUCKS FOR SUN FANS
and then marion saying he is going overseas next year
they can only trade him to a team looking for cap space now
sun fan has to be ticked at this move
this move does not help them get past spurs
Wow this is good news for the Spurs. Seattle gets a couple 1st-rounds to play around with as well, and who knows, Suns may suck in 2010 so Sonics could get a decent pick. Presti, helping out the Spurs and himself at the same time. Well done.
Good job by Seattle. I'm guessing they are moving Petro or one of their other young centers now. I keep hearing Robert Swift to Boston, but who knows.
Thomas wasn't any good anyways.
Trade away the only player on the entire Suns roster who can guard Tim Duncan? Smaaaaart.
He can't guard Duncan. They will get someone else.
Were you not watching the 2nd round this year?
Wow. Sarver is pinching pennies so hard that Abe Lincoln is bruising. Sam Presti is looking like a damn genius so far.
And who are they going to get who can guard Duncan while they're trying to drop pay-roll?
who can wise one
he did a decent job one of the very few that can
This makes the Scola trade look a lot better.
Good trade for Seattle. What does their starting lineup look like now?
lol.
Silly Suns.
No one can.
Looks like ther's a different tred after years of everspending...for bud stuff in return (knicks like the more obvious example)!
Finally the lux tax is working somehow...
Till now i think the only teams fiscally responsable have been Clippers (sterling...but no more now) and Spurs...
Now we don't have to constantly hear about how well Thomas guards Duncan and how Thomas is or was the Suns playoff "X" factor.
No, we'll be hearing about how Presti is quietly assembling a team specifically designed to upset the Spurs in the first round a la Don Nelson's Warriors to the Mavs.
When did Marion say he was going overseas? I saw Marbury said that he wanted to finish his carrer in Italy, but I heard nothing about Marion.
As for the trade, I think Phoenix did the best they possibly could. At some point soon, someone was going to have to go & Thomas is the oldest & least important of their starting 5. Nobody was going to trade any player of real value for him(ie a good young player), so for the Suns to get a nice $8 mil TE that they can either let expire or pick up an $8 mil dollar player down the road, seems like a pretty good deal in my eyes.
where do these trade exceptions begin, how did seattle get it to trade it to phoenix?
Dampier/Diop can at least "guard" him straight-up so we don't have to double and can stay home on your shooters..
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