Could NBA Player Migration Overseas Help Get A Deal Sooner?
Deron Williams will be playing overseas. Which NBA superstar will be next? (Photo Courtesy Ganon Baker Basketball, Flickr)
What do Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Deron Williams and Dwight Howard all have in common? All are NBA superstars and ll of them are at or near the top at their position, but that is not it. All of them are seriously considering playing overseas if the NBA lockout extends into the season.
Williams was the player to first bring the possibility to the forefront. Williams is an accomplished point guard and was the first to join the New Jersey Nets movement to bring stars in and contend for a championship. Some native European NBA players had already decided to play in Europe, but the first major NBA star to throw his name in the European ring was Williams.
Now the aforementioned Bryant, Howard and Nash are joining a growing list of NBA players who will be looking to get paid to play overseas if the lockout takes away game checks. The dam is about to burst with a flood of NBA players heading overseas. (more…)
Steve Nash Interested in Playing Overseas?
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You can add Steve Nash to a growing list of NBA superstars who are showing some interest in playing basketball overseas with the league currently in a lockout that is expected to last well into the winter.
Paul Coro, the Suns beat writer for the Arizona Republic wrote a great article this afternoon regarding Nash’s possible interest in playing overseas if the lockout does prevent the league from starting the regular season on time. The article is one of the main sports stories on AZ Central as I am currently type this. (more…)
Mickael Pietrus Wants Out of Phoenix?
The Suns got some very good news regarding their logjam at small forward this week.
In a recent interview with the French newspaper L’Equipe, Suns forward Mickael Pietrus said, “A lot of teams are interested in me, like the Lakers or the Celtics. This came from the best player in the world: Kobe Bryant. He told me two months ago that he would like to see me with the Lakers.” (more…)
Open Letter to LeBron James
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You were counting your championships before the season even began. NOT ONE, NOT TWO…
You played monopoly with the biggest free agents and formed your own super team. NOT THREE NOT FOUR…
You used the Boys and Girls Clubs as a facade for your one hour ego trip and entitled it ‘The Decision’. NOT FIVE NOT SIX…
You got to the finals and expected to roll over Dallas only to find out you couldn’t run them out of the gym the way you did Boston and Chicago. NOT SIX…
Jason Terry dropped an epic three-pointer that put the Mavericks up three games to two with you in his face! NOT SEVEN…
You had the ugliest finals of any “Chosen One” ever, forgot how to play in the fourth quarter and let Dallas rip your heart out and eat it as they looked you in the eye and claimed the championship you crowned yourself with almost a year ago. NOT EIGHT…
Did you learn anything LeBron James? (more…)
A Look Forward to the Phoenix Suns Offseason
Which direction will the Suns go this offseason? (Photo Courtesy of Alisa Cooper, Flickr)
Now that the season is over we come upon another season of tumult. The burning question is do we reload or rebuild. There is a core that can be built around but before construction, there must first be deconstruction.
Last season the question was keep Amar’e Stoudemire or let him walk. This season the same question lingers over Steve Nash. What should the Suns do this offseason? Here is a player-by-player breakdown of The Greg One’s plan for Suns improvement, starting at the top. (more…)
