A Trade for Amare Stoudemire Would Answer Warriors' Prayers

For many NBA teams, draft day inspires hope. GM’s wake up on draft day believing they’ll acquire the player destined to rescue their franchise from the swamp that is the NBA lottery. Players of destiny in the NBA are usually fresh-faced kids, still too young to buy their first beer. In a few rare cases, a fortunate lottery team is offered an established star in exchange for their draft pick, allowing them to immediately speed up their rebuilding efforts. Such an offer was presented to the Warriors last Thursday, and as you’d expect, they screwed it up. The Phoenix Suns offered All-Star power forward Amare Stoudemire to Golden State in exchange for Andris Biedrins, several role players, and the Warriors’ first-round draft pick, used to select Davidson guard Stephen Curry. The Warriors refused. For Golden State’s fans, who pray to the smallball gods each year for an impact seven-footer, it was a punch to the gut. At long last, the Smurfs had finally found their ... (link)