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If I Were Rebulding the Suns: With or Without Amare Stoudemire

 
I'm a true fan.  I want results now.  I want my team to succeed, and I (along with ESPN.com's trading machine) know how to keep my Suns a contender without seeing them die slowly or hit a stretch in the lottery. Thanks to these impatient qualities of mine, I thought of the best possible scenario in a limited amount of free time to blow up the Suns but keep them relevant. The question with Phoenix is this: If you're rebuilding them, do you keep Amare Stoudemire (talent) or ship him off (attitude)?  I still can't decide, so I went both ways.  Here it goes: Keep Amare and build around him The first thing you need to come to grips with about keeping Stoudemire is this—get rid of anyone who dominates the ball, because Amare wants the rock.  Thus, any teammate who has the tendency to dominate the ball (Leandro Barbosa, for example) needs to go.  The only exception to this is Steve Nash, because Stoudemire knows he'll get buckets running the pick-and-roll ... (link)

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