Dissonance19

Cuban should buy the Suns too. Own 2 NBA teams, increase his chances at winning a title haha.

I doubt they would allow that..

Pain5155

if that could happen, he would just trade players between the teams for each game.

Dissonance19

Nash/Howard/Marion/Dirk/Amare

Diaw and Jet off the bench

nffl

The Suns' only good 1-2-3 guard defender would be Bell if Marion was traded.

Imagine, a team with barely any defense loses it's best defender...

ShuHanGuanYu

Imagine, the Suns are not a team with barely any defense. True. When Kurt Thomas is in the lineup, the Suns were #2 in defensive FG%, #3 in 3PTFG% and #1 in blocked shots. Their only big man was replaced with horrible defender Tim Thomas because we didn't have much of a choice. Then they turned into a league bottom 5. Next year, they'll be stronger again. There is more to defense than just looking at how many points are scored in a game. Imagine that.

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The Matrix Effect

Did anyone hear the quote Mike D'antoni had about Shawn Marion (I heard it during I think the Laker series) something to the effect of "If we didn't have Shawn Marion we wouldn't win 25 games." I believe it too. Sure Diaw's great...and keeping him is huge...but if we let Marion go anytime soon, we will regret that horrendously. I don't understand how we can just shove Marion aside after ONE good year from Diaw (when Marions given his whole career here and its been a pretty damn good one) and just trade him away because resigning Diaw is so crucial (which I agree it is...but Marion is part of the Suns trinity (Nash/Amare/Marion)) break that up, and I believe we have no shot at a title in the forseeable future.

Sure people have been talking about getting Lewis and making our offense "insanely good"...why do we need to make something better when we're the best at it anyway? ESPECIALLY when it costs us in the short AND long run.

And what kind of money is Diaw going to command...$8-10 million per? Not worth it, no way, (pay Marion instead). Basing it on one great year, (because that's what everyones doing...saying his salary's going to force Marion out...after one year of play). What happens if he tanks next year, and this trade goes through...how stupid will Sarver and Co. feel when they traded arguably one of the best players in Franchise history, JUST so they could sign a guy who had a Most Improved Player, year, the year before and returns to mediocrocy in his contract year?

I don't see how keeping Marion (for more than just this year) is such a bad thing in so many people's eyes. (I know quite a few have said keep him in this thread, but I mean for more than this year.)

Keep Marion.

Dynamic™

We need him! He's the wheels of the car! But Nash is the engine, =P. This team won't be good without The Matrix.