Cavaliers to Reach out to Amar'e... Safari?

[Phills14]

They probably should be. Amare is without question a step down from Bosh/Wade/Lebron and a HUGE risk to give a 5 year max contract to.

 

[Gimme Some Mo]

Are they really planning on playing 7 foot Gallinari at SF?

If not, are they really going to play Amare at Center?

Either way, they are going to be a terrible defensive team..... again.

 

[MoFlo]

This may from Safari to Amare hating' Safari:

Source close to Amare Stoudemire on whether or not a second big name player will be joining him in New York. "We're hoping. We'll see."
http://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA​

With Amar'e getting the Max from them, this 2nd "big name" player will have to take less than the Max to go there, no?

 

[BooyaCS]

With Amar'e getting the Max from them, this 2nd "big name" player will have to take less than the Max to go there, no?

Amare's Max would be more than Lebron's Max contract just because Amare made more last year.

 

[Smooth]

Per Paul Coro:

Suns' order of events works 2 ways but the plan is to use MLE on Frye, then possibly do a STAT S&T before signing Warrick.

 

[Triumph36]

Per Paul Coro:

Suns' order of events works 2 ways but the plan is to use MLE on Frye, then possibly do a STAT S&T before signing Warrick.

STAT S&T for....who? Just a big trade exception and a 2nd or something? The Knicks have like 4 players on their roster.

 

[wuck]

From Chad Ford, confirming news we've been hearing.

Amare Stoudemire's days in Phoenix are over. Two league sources confirmed that Stoudemire ended his negotiations with the Suns on Thursday, essentially ending his tenure with the Suns.

The decision to end negotiations comes despite the public posturing the past few weeks that indicated that Stoudemire wanted to return to Phoenix. However, sources say that Stoudemire's desire to leave Phoenix dates back to the tough negotiations he had with Suns owner Sarver in Februrary. Stoudemire's camp knew that it was highly unlikely that Sarver would offer Stoudemire a five-year deal at max numbers and Stoudemire has been worried that even if he did, he'd gut the rest of the team to pay for it.

When Stoudemire received the Suns "final offer" -- a five-year, $95 million deal with partial guarantees on the last two years contingent on Stoudemire playing a minimum of 2,200 minutes his third and fourth seasons, Stoudemire pulled out of negotiations.

"It wasn't the right deal," Stoudemire's agent, Happy Walters, told the Arizona Republic. "There were too many caveats for us to be comfortable with it. Amare appreciated Robert's and Alvin's [Gentry] willingness to sit down with him. He'll be sad to leave his teammates and the city he loves but it's time to move on."

Following Stoudemire's withdrawal from negotiations, Sarver put the final nail in the coffin for Stoudemire. The Suns' decision on Friday to agree to terms with Hakim Warrick essentially ended any real chance of reconciliation between the two parties.

The only way the Suns can afford to sign both Channing Frye and Warrick under collective bargaining rules is to renounce the team's rights to Stoudemire. Once renounced, the Suns no longer will have the ability to exceed the salary cap to re-sign Stoudemire. On Friday a source inside the Suns confirmed that the team will renounce his rights.

Stoudemire has now turned to the New York Knicks and is working on securing a max five-year deal there. While Stoudemire's camp is eager to get a deal done according to sources, the Knicks are reluctant to commit to him until they know what Chris Bosh decides. But once Bosh makes a decision, the team can get more serious about completing if Bosh chooses to play elsewhere.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop

 

[Nightperson]

daldridgetnt Just imagine what the landscape would be like today if Danny Ferry had included J.J. Hickson in that proposed deal for Amare Stoudemire...
about 1 hour ago via web

If thats true i'm glad Ferry is gone...

 

[hud11]

WTF, Ferry wouldn't offer Hickson for Stoudemire? good god, he should have been outta here the day after the trade deadline

 

[Chris]

The national media has some weird belief that Hickson wouldnt be included for Stoudemire, not sure where it stemmed from.

 

[MDLT]

daldridgetnt Just imagine what the landscape would be like today if Danny Ferry had included J.J. Hickson in that proposed deal for Amare Stoudemire...
about 1 hour ago via web

If thats true i'm glad Ferry is gone...

No way that's true. Gilbert would have told him that he's taking over the wheel right then and there. I'm not Ferry apologist but he wouldn't do that. .

 

[wuck]

Let's not go revisionist on Amare/Hickson. The Suns got cold feet from various reports, and it wasn't held up because Ferry wouldn't give up Hickson.

He wouldn't give up Hickson for Jamison, but Amare was a different ballgame. I think you can blame Kerr/Sarver for the lack of a deal.

 

[Walter White]

It isn't that big of a deal anyway. Everything will work out for the better. I am glad we still have J.J. right now. Jamison+J.J.>Amare. Plus JJ will probably get us Bosh.

 

[Smooth]

Cavs officially out of Amare race..

With the Suns renouncing Amare's rights, he CANNOT go to anyone in a S&T deal... That was the Cavs only hope and now it's gone...

 

[Nightperson]

Cavs officially out of Amare race..

With the Suns renouncing Amare's rights, he CANNOT go to anyone in a S&T deal... That was the Cavs only hope and now it's gone...

Wonder how Amare and Lee will work for the Knicks next season? :gap: