The Suns also used some of the trade exception they got in the Amar'e Stoudemire deal to do a sign-and-trade with the Atlanta Hawks for Josh Childress. The Suns also sent the future draft pick they got from the Knicks to the Hawks.
Turkoglu has four years and about $43 million left on his contract. Josh Childress signed for five years and about $33 million.
Steve Nash tweeted this today, "Today's the end of an era. My close friend Leandrinho leaves the Suns making me the last player from 04-07. Great memories. Boa sorte irmao!" It must be kinda hard on him to lose all of these friends. Raja Bell was Nash's best friend on the team and I'm sure he and Barbosa were close.
I think the Suns will be fine now. They overpaid for everyone and don't have a backup for Jason Richardson. Gambo called Childress a poor man's Shawn Marion. I would call him a homeless man's Shawn Marion, but he does rock an afro, which gives him extra likability points.
Turkoglu can dribble, pass, shoot and run. He's 6-foot-10 and should get a solid six or seven rebounds per game. Hakim Warrick is a homeless man's Stoudemire. He's extremely athletic and can dunk with the best of them.
The Suns will be fine. I just hope my guy, Jared Dudley, gets his due share of money with all of these fools getting overpaid. It's weird. The three greatest free agents of the summer are underpaid, whereas the rest of the available players are extremely overpaid.
Anyway, Bill Simmons is going to make The Decision today on SportsNation. I'll be sure to let you all know how it turns out.
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I also think it's a little sad that Nash is the only one left.... I've never cared for Turkoglu, but maybe as a Sun, he'll be OK.
Who do you consider the three greatest free agents anyway?
The Suns will be fine.
The three greatest free agents are obviously LeBron James, Brett Favre and Cliff Lee.
Barbosa! I thought he'd be staying just like Nash! I liked him--I hope the people are nice to him wherever he ends up.
Hmmm....LJ is very good, but I think he's way overrated...and the circus he created with his "Decision" was ridiculous....
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