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Looks like the Diesel is making a stop in Phoenix.

Shaquille O’Neal was traded yesterday to the Phoenix Suns, for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks.

The Suns hope that by bringing Shaq to the desert, it will help them with their undersized, low post presence, while the Miami Heat receive one of the top forwards in the league who’s been wanting out of Phoenix for some time.

I’m not too sure how the deal will help the Suns out the gate, with Shaq still nursing a hip injury and has been having the worst year of his professional career, averaging 14.2 points and 7.8 rebounds. The move would also be able to plant Amare Stoudamire into his more natural power forward position.

The Heat though get a proven scoring threat in Marion and someone who can run alongside Dwayne Wade.

Until Shaq is able to suit up, that big body won’t be filling up the paint down low. But what it will do is fill up a seat on the bench and about $20 million in salary cap space.

Source: Fox Sports

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As tonight’s game between the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs climbs closer, I can’t stop thinking about how STUPID and RIDICULOUS it was to suspend Amare Stoudemire from the contest.

I mean, c’mon now. The guy left his seat and was going to come to the aid of a helpless Steve Nash after Robert Horry decided to transform into a freight train with seconds remaining in the game.

And if you look at the replay, cause they seem to be playing it on every station on TV, he didn’t even get that close.

The NBA should have just made the Suns forfeit and given the Spurs a win for tonight. They took away Phoenix’s biggest scoring weapon inside and the biggest threat to Tim Duncan.

And who cares if you guys suspended Robert Horry. What has he really done? Can he single handedly take over a game like Stoudemire? You should have suspended him for the rest of the playoffs along with a player to be named later. That would have been about even.

Don’t rorget they suspended one of the Suns’ best role players, Boris Diaw, for a game too.

JERKS! 

But it’s ok I guess. The NBA wanted to be fair and enforce their rules.

Hmm…Lemme think about this. Give a one game suspension to a guy who gave a helpless point guard the People’s Elbow, sending him flying into a wall a 2 game suspension while giving the opposition’s two players, one game a piece for getting out of their seats.

Sounds fair to me.

Congratulations NBA. You hit this one on the nose.