Everyone but Minne wants their cake and to eat it too...

[MannyIsGod]

The CBA happend. The biggest hurdles and reasons for trades in today's NBA are financial not talent oriented.

[genghisrex]

They even talked about this on ESPN this morning saying that Phoenix has now put Amare in the trade talks.

If Amare were on the table, KG would be a Sun done already. Did you read the article you posted? It clearly says that Minnesota wants Amare to be part of the deal, but Phoenix doesn't want to include him. Hence the, "everyone wants their cake and to eat it too." Maybe there's other news to the contrary, but not in your posting.

[ambchang]

Which team will have $19 million in cap room next summer?

Cap space is useless (in terms of making a winning team) unless you can attract high-caliber free agents. The Bulls failed miserably on this a while back, and had to go with the youth movement, and I believe Memphis and Toronto failed as well. Unless you are in a large metropolis (read Lakers, NY) or have unbelievably good weather (read Miami, Phoenix), it is very difficult to land top free agents even with cap room.
Now if you are the ONLY team with cap room that summer, it could make a difference.