Peter wrote:
Su Chandler ho cercato in rete e ancora non ho trovato manco mezzo rumor. Ma chi lo dice che arrivi a Toronto? C'è qualche fonte autorevole che lo sostiene?
Suns Make Some Moves: The Phoenix Suns will miss Amar'e Stoudemire, there is little doubt about that, but since agreeing to sign-and-trade Stoudemire to New York the Suns have made a series of moves that could turn out to be very good for the team in the long run.
According to Paul Coro of the Arizona Republic, the team has reached an agreement with long-time NBA agent Lon Babby to take over as President of Basketball Operations, Babby will be hiring a GM to handle the day-to-day of the team in the coming days.
Early in free agency the team reached terms on a new five-year, $30 million deal with Channing Frye and a four-year, $18 million sign-and-trade deal landing them Hakim Warrick.
Yesterday the Suns reached two more deals sending Leandro Barbosa and Dwyane Jones to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for Hedo Turkoglu (a Babby client). The Suns also reached terms on a sign-and-trade deal with Atlanta sending Josh Childress (a former Babby client) to Phoenix with a new five-year, $34 million contract.
While none of these new players are anywhere close to the caliber of Amar'e Stoudemire, the Suns are amassing a lot of nice depth and are picking up players that could thrive in Phoenix's up and down style of play.
Toss in second-round draft picks Gani Lawal and Dwayne Collins – both are expected to make the roster – and Phoenix, who was one of the league's deepest teams a season ago maybe getting substantially deeper.
Some Props For Colangelo: Say what you want about Raptors president Bryan Colangelo, but you have to hand it to him… He's turned the lemons of losing Chris Bosh into some interesting lemonade.
Individually some of the moves made so far have been puzzling, but when put them all together the Raptors could be a better team going forward and here's why…
Ed Davis can play… after two Summer League games, Davis has been very impressive, far better than anyone expected.
Sonny Weems showed up in Vegas ready to play himself and has been a monster.
DeMar DeRozan showed up with a nice mid-range jump shot and a better focus on improving.
Jarrett Jack has assumed the role of team leader and has been with his team in Vegas every day acting as mentor and coach.
Yesterday the Raptors shipped off Hedo Turkoglu to Phoenix and got Leandro Barbosa in return and have a deal that's likely to drop today which will return Boris Diaw for Jose Calderon and Tyson Chandler for the trade exception the team obtained from Miami in the Bosh sign-and-trade deal.
Colangelo has gotten some heat for the reported $34 million contract given to Amir Johnson, which is in fact worth just at $30 million according to sources that have seen the actual contract. $30 million is still a lot of Johnson, but when you consider what the Raptors are bringing to training camp in October, the team may be deeper, more athletic and younger than last year's squad, and they could be far more dynamic offensively.
The proof is in the pudding as they say, so time will tell if the Raptors are better, but what seemed like a colossal failure a few days ago is looking much better today.
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