I have a crazy idea, now Sarver would rather rebuild. Send the core of the team to NJ for immediate cap relief and huge TE plus young talents:
Amare(s&t)/Nash/Hill/Dudley/JRich/Dragic/Lou (s&t) for
Favors/Yi/Harris/Lee/Humphries
For NJ, it's a chance at the title with the very same Suns team that made the WCF this year plus Williams and the better version of Lopez. I believe they'd have the MLE still available as long as they don't sign a FA with cap straight up. They could extend Boone for 2mil and sign some other additional help with the MLE as long as their owner is willing to spend.
Brook/Amare/Hill/JRich/Nash with Boone/Dudley/Lou/Dragic/Williams/MLE is a better team than the 2010 Suns, though one year older. It's good for a run of two years at the title. After 2 years with Nash/Hill retiring, NJ still have the core of Amare/Brook/Dudley/Williams/Dragic as starters, plus maybe JRich extended for 8mil.
As for the Suns, Robin/Favers/Clark/Lee/Harris + Yi is a good start for rebuilding. Losing Dudley hurts. But Dud is a perfect role player a la Bowen, whose talent is really wasted on a lottery team. Dragic is actually not as good as Harris, provided injury wasn't an issue. And Suns need a semi-star like Harris to draw some interest from their audience. Sarver gets tons of financial relief and cap room for whatever use (like NJ would know if none of the top 5 FAs went there by mid of July
)Let's all root for the New Jersey Suns for 2011 NBA title run, shall we? Go Suns!
PS: when we are at it, JC just signs Kerr and Griffin as his GMs and Gentry the coach, to keep the whole chemistry going in NY, which would be an even bigger show than NYK ever has been. Perfect!
