According to Paul Coro. Sweet trade for Toronto getting away from Hedo's albatross contract. Barbosa has two years including this one on his contract. The thought that Sarver would veto trades between Toronto and Phoenix is obviously not the case.
Re: Raps deal Hedo Turkoglu to Phoenix for Leo Barbosa http://www.azcentral.com/sports/sun...uns-acquire-hedo-turkoglu-josh-childress.html LAS VEGAS - The Suns are on the verge of acquiring forwards Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress, swiftly rebounding from the loss of Amar'e Stoudemire with two quality impact players. The Suns would send guard Leandro Barbosa to Toronto for Turkoglu, a 6-foot-10 Turkish forward with versatile skills to shoot from long range and be a playmaker. Turkoglu, 31, has played 10 NBA seasons with four teams and wanted out of Toronto after an unhappy first season there. He averaged 11.3 points last season on 40.9 percent shootings, his lowest scoring average and shooting percentage in six years. Two seasons ago, Turkoglu was the NBA Most Improved Player when he averaged 19.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists with Orlando and followed it up with a 2008-09 season with averages of 16.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists. Turkoglu could become the Suns' starting power forward in place of Stoudemire, allowing new acquisition Hakim Warrick to come off the bench with Childress, Channing Frye, Jared Dudley and Goran Dragic. Phoenix would acquire Childress in a sign-and-trade deal with Atlanta, which still has his rights after he left the Hawks and the NBA to take a three-year, $20 million deal with the Greek team Olympiakos in 2008. Childress, 27, is able to leave Greece early and has agreed to a five-year deal worth at least $30 million with the Suns. He is a 6-foot-8 swingman who averaged 11.1 points over four seasons with Atlanta, shooting 52.2 percent from the field and 36 percent on the 3-pointers. Phoenix will give up a future second-round pick to acquire Childress. The Suns would use some of their remaining $12.2 million trade exception to make both deals. They acquired the exception in the Stoudemire sign-and-trade Friday and used the first $4 million of it to do a sign-and-trade for Warrick. Turkoglu is represented by Lon Babby, who leagues sources have said will be the next leader of the Suns' basketball operations. Until recently, Childress was represented by Babby's agency before he switched to Octagon.
Yeah this is a seriously good trade. Most Raps fans would've taken a bag of basketballs for Hedo but to get a premier bench scorer like Barbosa is amazing--especially given his contract is something reasonable.
Toronto saves about $1.9-million in this deal. We now have about enough room to use or TPE to pick up a player at or above $10-million. Master stroke by Colangelo.
Apparently Hedo cut the last year of his contract in half and waived his trade kicker. Guess he really wanted out...
Very nice trade for the Raps. What are they running now? Calderon/Jack Weems/Barbosa/belineli Demar Amir/Davis Andrea is that the gist?
Great work by BC Diaw , when fit , can defend and Barbosa certainly has capacity on this end of the floor as well with his quicks and length Really, with Diaw's point forward capacities and Barbosa's long ball I see real opportunity to shred Calderon ..maybe with the trade exception and Sonny Weems for Vince Carter Yeah yeah I know .... y'all don't want Vince to darken your doorstep - BUT - he's expired after this season and you'll be free from Calderon's contract Having a defensive asset like Diaw ( and Ed Davis if he pans out ) as well as cleaning out your cap space that you wasted with Calderon and Turkoglu is a big step in the right direction
Calderon/Jack/(Banks) DeRozan/Barbosa/Belinelli Weems/Kleiza Johnson/Davis/Evans Bargnani/Diaw/(Alabi) ^ Probably
