The best 3-on-3 teams from the Phoenix Suns for each Olympic year

2004

Shawn Marion
Joe Johnson
Amar’e Stoudemire

2004 was the year Napolean Dynamite came out and now I feel a million years old. How did time go by so quickly? My guess is because we’ve all be biologically frozen by horrible Suns teams for the last decade, so that’s why 2004 feels so recent.

This was the year the Suns put together the pieces of the 7-seconds-or-less era.

I was about to write about how the Suns had three players who were on the 2004 Olympic team, but then I remembered Stephon Marbury got traded midseason to the New York Knicks. Before then, he led the team in points (20.8) and this ability to beat his man 1-on-1 would have been great in 3-on-3.

But since he wasn’t on the team at the end of the season, I’m ruling him ineligible, and thus a young Joe Johnson takes his place.

Marion and Stoudemire disappointed Americans everywhere that year, as the once-invincible USA basketball team lost three times and wound up with the bronze medal.

Regardless, as 3-on-3 teammates, I can’t help but to think they’d be beast of a team. The only real lacking is a point-guard type of player, but between Johnson and Marion, I’m guessing they’d figure it out.