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SportsFilter: Shaq traded to Cavs on eve of draft
Golden State Of Mind: RUMOR: Warriors inquired about Suns' Amare Stoudemire and offered Andris Biedrins
TheBasketballJunkie.com: The Shaqtus is leaving the desert
The Starting Five: Thursday Morning Starting Five: The Shaq Trade To Cleveland Shook Up the World Edition
Shaq traded to Cavs on eve of draft
SportsFilter —
Shaq traded to Cavs on eve of draft : In exchange for the 37-year-old, 15-time All-Star, the Suns will get about $10 million in savings by acquiring Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic and then releasing Pavlovic, who has only $1.5 million of his $4.95 million salary guaranteed. Phoenix also gets the 46th pick in Thursday night's draft and $500,000. Phoenix and Cleveland have discussed an O'Neal deal since before the February trade deadline. O'Neal was a third-team All-NBA pick this year after playing in 75 games and averaging 17.8 points and 8.4 rebounds with career-best 60.9 ...
RUMOR: Warriors inquired about Suns' Amare Stoudemire and offered Andris Biedrins
Golden State Of Mind —
... winning the 2010 NBA Championship on the Cavs for the bright lights of the Big Apple. But are the Suns done dealing? From reading what my man Phoenix Stan has to say in The Big Experiment ends with a wimper. Shaq traded for $. Full blow up coming? it doesn't seem like they're done.
I'm praying the Dubs get Amare. [via www.dimemag.com]
Jump for some words on the Amare talks.
Paul Coro for The Arizona Republic notes:
Teams recently have inquired about every ...
The Shaqtus is leaving the desert
TheBasketballJunkie.com —
... "We have lots to consider," Suns General Manager Steve Kerr said. "We've pared our list down to players we're very comfortable with drafting." ...
Thursday Morning Starting Five: The Shaq Trade To Cleveland Shook Up the World Edition
The Starting Five —
... move to join LeBron in Cleveland put the entire draft in his sickdiculous shadow. Crazy stuff. I wonder how it’s all going to play out. Is it Super Bowl time so we can find out ASAP? I’m still going with Boston over LA with Andre Miller working the triangle in his home town. I’ll have a draft preview up on Ebonyjet.com later.
A Cleveland breakdown. Hope it works out for you LeBron. (Plain Dealer)
Same thing from Phoenix. Steve Kerr better get this team back on track quick. (AZ Central)
Phil Jackson will ...
Open Thread: Pre-draft
Bullets Forever —
... According to the same source that disclosed Terry Porter was about to be fired as Suns coach, the Rockets are leaning toward swapping Tracy McGrady's expiring $22M contract, Carl Landry and Aaron Brooks for Leandro Barbosa and Stoudemire, who owns an escape clause after next season and is demanding an extension this summer to waive it.
I find that hard to believe, but it's definitely value for Phoenix.
-Arizona Republic:
Teams recently have inquired about every returning Suns ...
Trade Day Links: Where The Big news isn’t Shaq…
Fanster.com —
... Lie - NBA - Yahoo! Sports Kelly Dwyer on how Shaq works in Cleveland and how cheap Sarver is (don't agree totally with that one)
LeBron needs Shaq's fury for ride to Finals - NBA - Yahoo! Sports Woj reports how LeBron drove the Cavs to do this and that Sarver is behind it from the Suns side
Fear The Sword - By The Fans....For the Fans...Your Source For Cleveland Cavaliers Blogs, News and Comment From the Cavs blogs POV...
Shaq traded to Cavs on eve of draft The Big Trade as told by Paul Coro including more Amare ...
The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... Paul Coro of The Arizona Republic: “Like many of the Suns’ recent NBA draft days, this one will be more about who the Suns are sending away with Phoenix agreeing Wednesday night to a trade that will ship center Shaquille O’Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers. In exchange for the 37-year-old, 15-time All-Star, the Suns will get about $10 million in savings by acquiring Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic and then releasing Pavlovic, who has only $1.5 million of his $4.95 million salary guaranteed. Phoenix also gets the 46th pick in Thursday night’s ...
