Local Slant:
Night at the Starbury
Meanwhile, a New York Daily News report quotes somebody close to D'Antoni suggesting that the new Knicks coach will immediately go to work on trading Stephon Marbury to the Suns for Boris Diaw and Leandro Barbosa.
This, the report suggests, makes sense because Marbury's contract that will expire after next season, freeing up $21.9 million from whichever team's cap he's on.
Thus, the Suns could unload the remainder of the contracts they gave to Diaw and Barbosa and the Knicks could jump-start their rebuilding process.
Right.
So, just to get this straight, the Suns would bring back a player who is known to disrupt chemistry - no, that's not accurate, he's like nitroglycerin in a paint mixer - and tear apart a roster that is built to win now or never.
And in the process, they make the coach that just left them look like a genius.
Sure, that makes sense.