Amid all the hype about the Summer of 2010 nationally surrounding the LeBron circus and locally about Amare’s defection, we seem to have forgotten that another fairly important member of the Phoenix Suns could have been a free agent this summer: Steve Nash.
Nash’s six-year deal signed in 2004 was set to expire last summer, but [...]

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Even though he opted out of the final year of his contract to test the 2010 free agent market, it didn’t take long for recently re-signed Phoenix Suns big man Channing Frye to realize where he belonged.
“I was in Hawaii with coach (Lute) Olson and everybody. I was like ‘Coach, I don’t know what I’m [...]

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It certainly isn’t David Lee, but at least it’s better than nothing. As expected, the Phoenix Suns will receive a $16.5 million trade exception and a second-round draft pick in a sign-and-trade sending Amare Stoudemire to the New York Knicks, according to an ESPN report.
Soon after Amare verbally committed to joining the Knicks on a five-year, [...]

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On Wednesday evening NBA teams found out that the 2010-11 salary cap will be set about $2 million higher than originally expected.
The salary cap is calculated as a percentage of the league’s revenue from the prior season, which was estimated to put the cap at $56.1 million. Instead teams will have $58 million of cap [...]

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Suns forward Jared Dudley and JMZ may know what the nation is waiting anxiously to hear. The secret that’s getting its own one-hour TV special Thursday: LeBron James’ future destination.
Dudley posted the following on his Twitter account today:
Breaking News!!! My sources tell me Lebron will announce that he will be goin to the NY KNICKS [...]

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In typical Amare Stoudemire fashion Monday, the five-time All-Star announced that “the Knicks are back.” I’ll believe that when I see it.
Stoudemire clearly believes he can carry the storied organization back to greatness on his shoulders alone. But the bigger question is whether or not his knees can handle that load.
In what seemed to be [...]

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