Suns to acquire Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress

[Sun Tzu]

The Suns are closing in on acquiring Hedo Turkoglu in a trade with Toronto.

 

Phoenix would send Leandro Barbosa and Dwayne Jones to the Raptors for Turkoglu.

 

The Raptors would then move Jones and the traded player exception acquired in the Chris Bosh trade for Boris Diaw.

 

The Suns must use $6.5 million of the trade exception from the Knicks in the Amar'e Stoudemire trade to acquire Childress from Atlanta.

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[Jammin]

I'm loving the Childress signing/trade. He really polished his game in Greece and he's going to be a huge part of our team. I wouldn't be surprised to see him start eventually.

 

Hedo is a high risk, high reward type deal. His contract is massive, but when he's motivated to play, he lights up the scoreboard.

 

I'm excited to see how this turns out.

[YugoRocketsFan]

I'm loving the Childress signing/trade. He really polished his game in Greece and he's going to be a huge part of our team. I wouldn't be surprised to see him start eventually.

 

Hedo is a high risk, high reward type deal. His contract is massive, but when he's motivated to play, he lights up the scoreboard.

 

I'm excited to see how this turns out.

 

Start? He's getting at least 15 ppg.

[Jammin]

So you don't think he'll start?

[YugoRocketsFan]

So you don't think he'll start?

 

I said he is getting 15 ppg, so he will easily start.

[moeroadkill]

if that al Jefferson rumour comes true, suns dont have the deepest spot at the 2 so he would have to start

[Jammin]

The Suns have always run a short bench so if we only have 2 players at the 2, that'll be fine. And I doubt the Al Jefferson trade is going to happen, it was purely speculation as of last night. No update on it today but I still doubt anything will happen.

[xx.]

So did MJ screw everything up or are these two players still coming to the Suns?

[Jammin]

Nah the Suns and Raptors are still exchanging Barbosa and Turk. The Bobcats deal was just added to make it easier, but the Turk/Barbs trade was going through no matter what.

[Make It Naaaashty]

Not sure about this season just like I was last year. Let's see if Gentry and Nash can do some magic they did this year and get to the playoffs.

[Jammin]

I'm more excited about this season than I was last season. We got an All Star in a trade for a 8-9th man. We can rest Nash more because Hill can be our primary ball handler, and when Nash and Hill are on the bench, Turk is a great ball handler.

[Make It Naaaashty]

Yea but we don't have many scorers since Amare left, if Turk can play well then it will make everybody else's job much easier. I just hope we can get 1-2 more players in FA or in a trade.

[Jammin]

Steve Nash makes scorers. We don't need Amar'e as much as some people think we do. Turk is very capable of putting up 18-20 ppg if he plays with passion like he did in Orlando. It's only been 1 season since he played in the Finals, he hasn't lost any of his shooting touch.

 

Plus Warrick, Reynolds/Lawal [if signed], Frye and Childress will ALL flourish under Nash. There are very few pointguards that can help players inflate their stats like Nash can.

[Make It Naaaashty]

Pretty amazing actually how Nash does that. Our starting line-up doesn't look that bad, but I think it's good enough for us to make the playoffs.

 

PG - Steve Nash

SG- Jason Richardson

SF- Josh Childress/Hedo Turkoglu?

PF- Hedo Turkoglu?

C- Robin Lopez

 

We have a pretty solid bench with Hill, Dragic, Frye, Dudley, and Warrick. Not sure who would start at PF though...lol

Edited July 14, 2010 by Prodigy

[Jammin]

We are one of the deepest teams in the league, hopefully we'll use our bench more than we have in the past.

 

PG - Nash / Dragic / Reynolds

SG - Richardson / Hill

SF - Childress / Dudley / Griffin

PF - Turkoglu / Amundson / Warrick / Lawal

C - Lopez / Frye

 

Only spot we aren't very deep at is our C position, but I'm positive that we'll have a very small lineup half the time. Plus, our Summer League team is playing amazing so we may get more out of Griffin, Reynolds and Lawal than expected. We also have Clarke but I'm expecting him to get traded soon since he hasn't really shown anything yet.

[Check my Stats]

Bump.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=862

[headliner]

This deal in particular isn’t working out for both sides thus far. Barbosa and his wrist injury and Turk just suck in my opinion.