As expected, the Phoenix Suns spent Thursday in limbo with the majority of their remaining cap space tied up in an offer sheet to Eric Gordon that the New Orleans Hornets are expected to match.
As I reported last night, the Hornets are likely to utilize the majority of the 72 hours they have to match [...]

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When it was first reported that New Orleans will likely take the full three days before inevitably matching the offer sheet to Eric Gordon, the average fan might have thought the Hornets were doing it to spite the Suns.
After all, the Suns are basically in limbo until the Hornets match Gordon because they would need [...]

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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns finally got that offer sheet signed by New Orleans restricted free agent Eric Gordon, the team announced today.
The Hornets will have three days to match the four-year, $58 million offer, something that ESPN’s Ric Bucher said they would do. The news came in a few hours after Suns president of basketball [...]

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Suns fans, you might not want to click this link to Lakers.com if you just ate.
While the Suns and Eric Gordon waited to make his max offer sheet official, the Lakers wasted no time announcing their acquisition of Steve Nash.
Nash is now officially a Laker after the teams completed a trade that will net the Suns [...]

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ESPN’s Ric Bucher tweeted this evening that the New Orleans Hornets plan to match the four-year, $58 million offer sheet the Phoenix Suns agreed to extend to restricted free agent shooting guard Eric Gordon.
Source: Hornets not scared off by Gordon’s comments, will match Suns’ 4-year, $58million offer and plan to keep him. No S&T.
— Ric [...]

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It surely seemed odd that the New Orleans Hornets agreed to a sign-and-trade deal to acquire Ryan Anderson, parting with quality young big Gustavo Ayon in the process, when the Hornets could have just as easily renounced all their non-Eric Gordon free agents and signed the restricted free agent outright.
That’s especially the case because, according [...]

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