Big Al & #6 for Amare?

So you lose the best player on the team, plus the chance to acquire a starting perimeter player, for one year of a borderline team cancer with shaky knees? Even if Amare opts out (and since he’s due to earn a player-option $17 mill in 2010-2011, I don’t think that’s a given), and re-signs with the Wolves, how does this make this team any better?

This trade is either:

1. False (most likely)
2. An attempt by the Wolves to rid salary to make a bigger splash in 2010 (ludicrous)
3. An attempt to dump the later years of Al’s contract. (less likely, but not surprising, and way more reprehensible)

The really sad thing is that the Wolves would have to include another small contract (Foye?) to make the deal work.

I will be extremely disappointed if this deal takes place as described.

would be an exercise in such monumental stupidity that we would consider the Jaric-Cassell trade the “Good ’Ol Days”.

You just know we are all going to be sad after the draft.

I wouldn’t trade Big Al for Amare straight up, I definitely wouldn’t give them the #6 with him.

Talk about getting fleeced!

From the website of KTAR (“Where the Valley Talks”):

Let me dispel these rumors before they start to takeoff as I have received several emails based on some blogs saying Amare Stoudemire is going to Minnesota for Al Jefferson and the #6 pick.

First, the trade would be a steal for the Suns.

Second, Minnesota’s new top man David Kahn might be fired if he made that trade it is so one-sided.

But the truth is that there have been NO discussions between the teams about this trade.

It is a total BS made up rumor with no legs. The Suns are shopping Amare, but more than likely if they don’t find a deal that they love they will keep him and deal with the alternatives at a later date.

So before this trade rumor starts to take off let’s do a reality check — it is not going to happen. It has not been discussed. And it is 100 percent completely made up.

However, there has been word of Minnesota moving Gomes, Bassy, and expirings to Boston for Pierce, Rondo, and Ray Allen . . .

of happening than Amare’ coming here. Why would you trade an moderate contract for a pain in the arse? Talk about blowing up a team.

This deal is SO BAD I can’t even describe it. It is “I AM DONE WITH THE WOLVES FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE” bad. Amare is a poor player, and taking him away from Steve Nash would make him even worse.

He plays ZERO defense.
He is one of the worst rebounding big men I’ve ever seen. He doesn’t block out, and his positional awareness is a joke. Even though he averages 9 reb / game, about 8 of them literally fall into his hands.
He has NO post game. All of his points come on dunks and midrange jump shots.
He’s a whiny, arrogant, prima donna locker room cancer.

I could go on and on. I wouldn’t trade Al for him straight up, and I wouldn’t trade the #6 and filler for him, so I sure as hell wouldn’t give up both He is a painfully limited player that needs to be in a very specific system to bring out the few skills he has. A reunion with D’Antoni in NY, or playing for Nelly in Golden State, would work for him. He should never come anywhere near us.

Add the Fact that Amare would sign before the trade…and throw in LeAndro Barbossa then we are talking…

An NBA source said today that Minnesota forward-center Al Jefferson is not being traded to the Suns with the sixth overall pick for Suns All-Star forward Amare Stoudemire. An NBA executive told The Globe on Wednesday that the teams discussed the trade. But another source acknowledged the discussion, but also said the Suns were quickly turned down. The source added that the Wolves new general manager David Kahn has even called Jefferson, an ex-Celtic, to tell him the trade would not happen. As for Stoudemire, the cost-cutting Suns definitely seem interesting in moving him and his hefty salary.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/2009/06/jefferson_stayi.html

just planned on popping in to see what you guys thought about this rumor, but it looks like you are all having the proper reaction.