NBA Trade Deadline: Amaré Back On The Block?

Posted by on Monday, January 25, 2010 3 Comments

A league source said Golden State, Minnesota and Cleveland have shown interest in acquiring Suns power forward Amar’e Stoudemire.

Major hang-ups in a possible deal are the Suns’ need to get good value in return and the other team’s need to feel secure in knowing it has a chance to keep Stoudemire, who can opt out of his contract this summer.

Stoudemire has said he wants to play for a title contender but prefers to stay with the Suns, who met with his agent Thursday.

via Suns’ Amar’e Stoudemire drawing trade interest.

We’ll leave Cleveland alone for now, since reteaming him with Shaq would be exceptionally complicated and Cleveland has almost nothing Phoenix wants as long as they’re contending.

Golden State we’ve been over. The Warriors should have pulled the damn trigger back before the draft. You have a perennial All-Star with 40-point potential in him on the table for a boom or bust draft pick and some table scraps (no offense, Andris). You do that deal. They didn’t.

But Minnesota is really intriguing. Minnesota could send Ellington, one of the Jeffers0n-Love combo, and a pick. That’s a tasty combination. Throw in either of those guys into the 7 Seconds or Gentry and you’ve got a pretty potent unit, and you finally have some future potential.

It’s an interesting idea that could end up being a huge get for Kahn, a season saver.

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About Matt Moore: Matt Moore is a Senior NBA Blogger for CBSSports.com's Eye on Basketball blog, weekend editor of Pro Basketball Talk on NBCSports.com, and co-editor of Voice on the Floor. He lives in Kansas City due to an unbelievably complex set of circumstances and enjoys mid-90's pop rock, long walks on the beach and the novels of Tim Sandlin.

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Neville Tivendale

A season saver for Kahn right up to the point at which Amar'e opts out of his final year and turns up in Miami or New York on a big new deal.

Jefferson, Ellington and a pick for a 35 game rental of a guy we don't need. Not thanks.

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Matt Less

I think the GSW would have been crazy trading Randolph, Biedrins and Stephen Curry for a non-guaranteed Amare after this year. What team would really give up that much young talent to rent a player for a year?! If there's no guarantee that Amare will stay with either the Warriors or Wolves after the season, then Phoenix would be lucky to end up with a good player plus a draft pick from either team.

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shrink

CBA Rules require that a player can't renegotiate a contract until one year from the date of the signing (Oct 3, 2010 for Amare), or after he renounces his player option at the end of the season and becomes an unrestricted free agent. Neither of these could occur before this year's trade deadline, so there would be no guarantee Amar'e couldn't simply finish the season here, then walk. MIN and GSW have no play-off ambitions this year, and would never give up major assets with that kind of risk.

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