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I know LB's still has a few years on his contract... but when its up, how much do you think LB is worth?

i would say around 7-10 million a year

Will depend on the new CBA and the salary limit.

I think it's going to be a very reasonable contract. Probably in the region of 8-9mil a year over 5. He'll be in his 30's by then so I think that's reasonable considering he's on a cheap contract right now.

But yeah, like Mr. Sun said, it'll depend on what the new CBA is going to look like and if the economy picks up then he'll get more, if not then it'll be less.

Barbosa doesn't seem like the type who will complain about salary or anything like that. Try to sign him for the amount of money he's making now or 1 million a year more. 7 million a year. If not try to get him for like 8 or 9 a year

I think 7-8 mil sounds right.
I just hope we can start him in a few years but that would mean finding another explosive offensive weapon off the bench.
Suns future starters:
Dragic
Barbosa
Clark
Amare
Frye
Need to replace Nash, Richardson, and Hill.

Not to mention a bench with Dudley, Loy, and hopefully-he-matures-and-does-what-Kerr-claims-could-Lopez... Is anyone weirded out that Kerr is more likely right about Dragic every time he goes out on the court? If you look at his numbers from Gentry's time on he's averaging pretty solid stuff... I forget what it worked out to but at one point I had figured out what he'd average with 35 minutes a game and it was something like 15-17 a game with 7-9 assists and 40% from 3... Got me excited...

And yeah, we'll need more bench scoring for when LB becomes a starter like he should be but I'm sure we can pick someone up within the next 3 years. We'll either pick up some free agent or draft someone with our pick in 2011 (we still have one don't we?) or get lucky with one of our 2nd rounders.

What if we resign J-Rich to a reasonable contract (Like in the range of 6 mil a year... what 2 guards who can score very well and that's all normally get signed)? I've got mixed feelings at the moment, especially considering we haven't seen him play this year

Qwigglez wrote:I think 7-8 mil sounds right.
I just hope we can start him in a few years but that would mean finding another explosive offensive weapon off the bench.
Suns future starters:
Dragic
Barbosa
Clark
Amare
Frye
Need to replace Nash, Richardson, and Hill.

I'm not really so sure Amare will be here beyond this season.

DBrimstone wrote:Not to mention a bench with Dudley, Loy, and hopefully-he-matures-and-does-what-Kerr-claims-could-Lopez... Is anyone weirded out that Kerr is more likely right about Dragic every time he goes out on the court? If you look at his numbers from Gentry's time on he's averaging pretty solid stuff... I forget what it worked out to but at one point I had figured out what he'd average with 35 minutes a game and it was something like 15-17 a game with 7-9 assists and 40% from 3... Got me excited...

And yeah, we'll need more bench scoring for when LB becomes a starter like he should be but I'm sure we can pick someone up within the next 3 years. We'll either pick up some free agent or draft someone with our pick in 2011 (we still have one don't we?) or get lucky with one of our 2nd rounders.

What if we resign J-Rich to a reasonable contract (Like in the range of 6 mil a year... what 2 guards who can score very well and that's all normally get signed)? I've got mixed feelings at the moment, especially considering we haven't seen him play this year

+1 on everything you said. I think Dudley could be starter material in 1-2 years though. And we would need a big defensive minded PG to play alongside LB in the future.

And dammit Dragic looks like he could pan out to be that type of guy.

Dragic
Barbosa
Dudley
Clark
Lopez

We have very good looking young core. I'm excited about the Suns future!

Went back and did the numbers as best I could in 5 minutes...

5.09 pt's
2.4 assists
2.2 rebounds
1.5 turn overs

in about 15 minutes

so in 35 minutes, about 16 points
7.5 assists
6 rebounds (?)
and 4.5 turnovers
as a rookie... not all star stats but not bad. Tack a couple more points, assist, and a couple less turnovers with experience

He looks way better now...
And Nash didn't turn into the stallion he is now until his 5th season. I think Dragic will be more than ready by his 5th season, which is when Nash is probably going to retire. Heck I think he'd surprise us now if he were given the chance to play a little more.

I see Amare resigning here because he's going to opt out of 17 mil a year, try to find a max contract, and have the same thing happen that happened to Boozer, who is also a scoring 6-10 power forward who doesn't play defense but does rebound. So unless he rebounds like crazy, which he hasn't been (although his D is improving) I think we'll resign him for possibly less than the 17 we would have owed him if he hadn't gotten cocky and tried to go for a max contract.

Really, we've got a great core of role-players who're gonna be around for a while and can only get better because they're all so young, an all-star power forward, despite his flaws, the Brazilian Blur, and the Slovenian wonder boy himself. If only we had a couple picks to get a couple more good pieces...

that was a long post

The multi million dollar question is why and how Renaldo Balkman just received a 5.2 million dollar exception.