<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Suns forward Shawn Marion is a long way from home, but not far enough away to escape trade speculation. "I've been hearing that all summer," Marion said Friday after the U.S. basketball team was 40 minutes late for a news conference. "It's a possibility. That's the NBA. The majority of the time you hear about players who just got a big contract. They're the ones who get traded. "It comes with the territory." Marion, who signed a 6-year, $79 million deal two years ago, has been rumored to be on the block since the Suns offered him to Orlando for Tracy McGrady. McGrady wound up going to Houston, but that didn't stop the speculation. Now, there's talk that the Suns will try to trade Marion for a big man after the Olympics. Marion declined to place any odds on whether he would be back with the Suns next season. "I don't know," he said. "You know as much as I do." Loving the ride Marion has no regrets about his decision to play in the Olympics. There are a lot of perks. Lots of security, too. "When we were in Istanbul (Turkey), they drove us from the hotel to the arena in a bullet-proof car," said Marion, who after the team's arrival in Athens Thursday night checked into a cabin on a cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, docked in the harbor. "It was like we were the president or something." Sign and swim Phoenix sprinter Gary Hall Jr. had a tough time getting into the pool Friday for a final tuneup before the start of swimming today. Fellow swimmers from other countries stopped him repeatedly, asking him to pose for pictures and sign autographs.</div> <div align="center">Link</div>
