Vince Carter was never going to play this season for the Phoenix Suns at an $18.3 cap number, the only question was whether the Suns would find a suitable trade partner before waiving his largely non-guaranteed contract.
A Carter trade does not appear to be in the cards, however, as ESPN’s Marc Stein and Chris Broussard reported [...]

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This past year NBA front offices were stuck in limbo in that they could only evaluate each potential decision based on the current system, not the system those decisions would end up impacting.
With the lockout all but over, those poor general managers now have a road map by which to base future decisions.
Now it’s time [...]

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The Phoenix Suns are not expected to make much of a splash in free agency this December, at least not in a way that would put a dent into their 2012 cap space.
So while other teams were off chasing the Tyson Chandlers and Nenes of the world Wednesday morning when teams could first contact agents, [...]

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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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