<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Grant Hill leaving Orlando Magic for Suns Brian Schmitz | Sentinel Staff Writer 11:50 AM EDT, July 5, 2007 Grant Hill has decided to sign with the Phoenix Suns to hopefully hitch a ride to an NBA title, leaving the Orlando Magic after seven injury-racked, mostly unfulfilled seasons. He will sign with the Suns for the $1.2 million veteran's exception, which is all Phoenix was willing to offer. Hill, whose seven-year, $93 million contract with the Magic expired after the past season, apparently was eyeing the Suns from the start of the NBA free-agency signing period. It had been reported that Hill had spoken with the Miami Heat and the Detroit Pistons, whom he played with the first six seasons of his career. A 6 foot-8 seven-time all-star, Hill averaged 14.4 points per game last season with the Magic. He played in 65 games -- the most since playing 67 in the 2004-05 season. Hill, who arrived in a sign-and-trade in the summer of 2000 to Orlando from Detroit, was expected to team with fellow free-agent star Tracy McGrady to return the Magic to post-Shaq prominence. But he underwent five surgeries on his left ankle and another surgery to repair a hernia, and, in all, played in just 202 regular-season games.</div> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/bask...0,3073523.story Well one less thing Magic fans have to worry about. I wish Grant Hill well and the best of luck in his conquest for a ring.
<div class="quote_poster">The Walrus Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">damn talk about a paycut. To bad we couldnt workout a sign and trade though.</div> They don't have anyone that they would want to trade or that we would want that is worth 1.2 mil.
yeah but we coulda packaged some expiring contracts or somethin like Garrity or Arroyo and a future pick. We coulda easily went after Boris Diaw or James Jones.
lol i didnt mean itd be the easiest thing in the world. But if we threw in some picks along with Hill and expiring contracts. Or even possibly Turkoglu. I just feel we coulda got somethin outta this. And cleared up room for Darko at the same time.
Unless Phoenix gets KG I doubt that they will win a ring any time soon. They have failed so far, and I don't see how they could win without making one or more big signing/trade, and getting Grant Hill does not count as one. He'd have a bigger chance of winning with the Spurs.
<div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Unless Phoenix gets KG I doubt that they will win a ring any time soon. They have failed so far, and I don't see how they could win without making one or more big signing/trade, and getting Grant Hill does not count as one. He'd have a bigger chance of winning with the Spurs.</div> Pretty much it. Good luck to Hill, regardless. I feel some disappointment in him, though. The guy sits out practically 2/3 of his contract with his(big contract at that), and he goes and signs with another team. It's understandable at least.
