Amare’s End Just a Matter of Time

↵Those Amare Stoudemire rumors have been everywhere this week. Now, even Amare himself seems to think it’s a matter of hours/days/weeks before Phoenix is no longer his home. FanHouse’s Brett Pollakoff talked to Stoudemire after a solid 19/15 night against the Warriors.↵↵⇥“I definitely want to stay, ” he said with conviction. “This is my foundation, but you know, it is business. I’m gonna do what’s best for myself and I’m pretty sure the Suns are going to to do what’s best for the organization from a financial standpoint. Whatever happens, happens.” [...]
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↵⇥“If it was my last game, then I think I went out with a pretty good bang.”↵↵ESPN’s Chad Ford played with the Trade Machine so that you don’t have to; his colleague Marc Stein is doing the gumshoe thing. And Amare isn’t the full story: rumors abound that the Suns are looking to unload Shaq as well.
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↵Under Mike D’Antoni, the Suns were all about scoring in seven seconds or less. But since last year, the franchise seems intent on breaking up a contender as quickly as possible. Not my idea of fast-paced basketball.↵