Good Life Trumps a Good Team

[Risensun]

Interesting perspective on the Suns in the National Post

Life, obviously, changes a person. Priorities change as you grow older -- when you leave school, when you buy a house, when you have kids. You tend to get more risk-averse, more willing to compromise. And most of us stop reaching for the stars when it becomes clear we'll probably never get there...

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=84296a9b-8003-4457-8419-42ebd585ce51

[lilfishi22]

Nice little read.

I guess I can understand a little of why Nash wants to stay. He could've been traded to a number of different teams, but only few would were real contenders. Knicks and Raps were his preferred destination as talked about by a number of different people. Blazers were really the only team that seemed to have the right assets we wanted and is considered a top team in the West.

But why leave the good life here, sign for cheap and go to a team that may be closer to the championship but by no means guaranteed one. I'm sure his mindset is, there's no point of leaving such a good thing he has here when we're probably just as close to a championship as many other teams in the league. At least here, he's having fun.

[JohnVancouver]

Nice little read.

I guess I can understand a little of why Nash wants to stay. He could've been traded to a number of different teams, but only few would were real contenders. Knicks and Raps were his preferred destination as talked about by a number of different people. Blazers were really the only team that seemed to have the right assets we wanted and is considered a top team in the West.

But why leave the good life here, sign for cheap and go to a team that may be closer to the championship but by no means guaranteed one. I'm sure his mindset is, there's no point of leaving such a good thing he has here when we're probably just as close to a championship as many other teams in the league. At least here, he's having fun.

Who are the teams we can say are legitimate contenders going into 09-10?

Lakers
Cavs
Celtics
Spurs

I can't see him going to any of them, based on their rosters or the Suns willingness to trade - surely they wouldn't trade the face of the franchise to Western rivals like LA or SA.
The Cavs or Celts - nahhh. Neither is a team he could really be himself on - in Boston he'd be sharing the job with Rondo and does he want to be a part-timer in the last of his prime?
The Cavs are in, let's face it, Cleveland.

At any rate he would have to play out his final year or ask to be traded. I think both routes would have been uncomfortable.

And let's not forget, at $11 million he's still very tradeable. We've seen how quickly things can turn to crap and with Kerr running the show anything can happen.