As you all know, yesterday we traded Jason Richardson, Hedo Turkoglu, and Earl Clark for Vince Carter, Mickael Pietrus and Marcin "The Polish Hammer" Gortat. I have realized that we have acquired two bald players, Vince Carter and Marcin Gortat, and I thought, "Oh no! What about our reputation for being the team will the best hair?" after thinking this over I have come to the conclusion that bald players are the key to success, and history backs me up on this one.

A many of the past greats such as, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Karl Malone all sported shiny domes, thus combining for a total of 8 MVP's, 38 All-Star Appearances and 26 All-NBA First Team Selections, but "That Was Then, This is Now", Right? Wrong.

In the offseason of 2007, the suckish Boston Celtics traded about half their roster for bald old guys Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. Instant success! The Celtics go onto win the NBA Championship defeating the Lakers(Fakers), and continue to be one of the best franchises in the NBA, rumor has it Rondo is considering shaving his head clean to contiune the success when those old UBAMF(Unbadassmuthafuckas) retire(I made that up), but wait there's more!

In 2004, bald players Shaquille O'Neal and Derek Fisher ditched the Fake Show because they were pissed off that a team with bald players such as Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Shaq and Fisher lost the championship to a crazy haired Ben Wallace team. Still the Lakers got to the Finals with those players, so my theory is still valid. Shaq went to Miami and in return, the Lakers received crazy haired Brain Grant, normal Caron Butler(Who they traded for Kwame Brown, LOL FAIL) and bald Lamar Odom. The Lakers knew they didn't lose in the trade that much because they still got a bald guy, but obviously 2 bald guys > 1 bald guy, so they sucked. Until they got Fisher back. In 2007 Fisher signed with the Lakers to start his second stint, since then the Lakers have been in the Finals 3 times with Odom and Fisher leading the team in baldness, plus Fisher(I hate that guy) is a 5 time champion, soooo, there's another sucess story.

At the start of the 2006 playoffs, Dwayne Wade pissed his pants thinking about how the Heat wouldn't live up to the hype of having Shaq and Wade on the same team, so he knew he had 2 options, number 1, was to shave his head, number 2, was convice the guys in the Heat's FO to bribe the refs. So he shaved his head in the Bulls series, and whaddyaknow? The Heat won the championship.

This is my least favorite sucess story, but we all know about Bruce"The B*tch"Bowen, and how he is a champion blah blah blah, well being a dirty player, being bald and having Tim Donaghy fix the games for you, and you will most likely win the Championship. 

With the recent trades the Magic made they probably think they will win the championship, WRONG! Too much hair, same with the Heat. I predict a Lakers-Celtics championship or the most probable Suns-Celtics :)

We all know how good Grant "Badass Motherfucka" Hill is, but he did not always have a little amount of hair visible, look at his early days with the Pistons and early days with the Magic. Nowadays, with Grant Hill is kinda bald, and his career has been rejuvenated and he is a BAMF once again(but he always was so the prior sentence makes no sense but I don't feel like rewriting it).

So I have no doubt that Gortat and Carter will bring us success for the reasons listed above. So stay positive because we have some great things to be excited about.

(Note: This Fanpost in no-way serious, I wanted to write a Fanpost that wasn't rosterbating, but I got writers block and decided to write this. This Fanpost is in every way a joke.)

After reading Seth's article about JRich not being at training camp, I went off to twitter and asked "Why aren't you at training camp yet", to my surprise, this morning,  I saw I had a direct message in my inbox, from @jrich23, it said

What an awesome dude to respond back to me! Glad JRich is spending time with his family and is looking forward to the next season, just wanted to share this with you.

I've been seeing all these threads about how we should get Josh Smith, no, but let's try to get someone else from the Hawks, Al Horford.

                                                            From the SBN Scouting Report

With the loss of Amare Stoudemire, a hole is left at the PF position, Horford would be the perfect man in my opinion. He has a high BB IQ, a good defender, and a guy other teams are afraid of. 

I know what you are thinking, how do we get him to come here? Why would he leave the Hawks

He would leave the Hawks because they force him to play Center, however, he doesn't like playing Center as he's a natural PF. He is also being lowballed by management, who don't want to pay Jamal Crawford or Al Horford, but they pay Joe Johnson $130 mill. If you look at our options for PF right now you will see names like David West, among others, but IMO Al Horford would be the best option, better than Josh Smith too. What do you guys think?

From the article

"I want to be here," said Dudley, who could become a restricted free agent next summer. "This is home to me, close to San Diego. Training camp's there. It just fits. "I'm thinking about obviously having a good year. It's crazy. Everywhere now, because of the success our team has, I get a lot of recognition every time I go out. I just want to be better. I don't want to go on last year's success. Amar'e's gone. Barbosa's gone. I think I can pick up more of a role. I'm not going to replace him (Stoudemire) or even come close. I know what I'm capable of doing and can improve as a player."

via Hoopshype, via Azcentral

Glad to here this from Dudley, it makes me happy to see that Dudley is ready to elevate his game to the next level, and is providing positive outlook on the next season.

While looking through the Draftee Photo event, I saw Gani Lawal rocking his Suns away jersey, wait...the jersey is different. In the picture you can see the Phoenix script is smaller, and the collar has changed.

via http://twitpic.com/2fmd3o 

And you can also see New Jersey's collar has also changed, Adidas changing the collars? Downgrade IMO, anyway here are the other jerseys

Warriors Home

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Warriors Away

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Cavs Home

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Cavs Away

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Jazz Home & Away

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Mavericks Home

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Mavericks Away

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Clippers Home and Away

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Wolves Home

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Wolves Away

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I was lurking around NBA.com and saw that the TWolves changed their uniforms and I though I would share it with you all. The green was taken out and more silver was added. The neck was recolored, as were the side panels. The number font was also replaced with a more generic one. Overall I think it's a good tweak. I don't like the fact that green is no longer in their color scheme, but I can live with it. Link below.

Timberwolves new uniforms

Yes, this is a trade idea. You know that one day you were bored and where thinking about trade possibilities for the Suns, and couldn't keep them to yourself.  Yes, I know there have been about 10 fanposts dedicated to bad trade ideas, but I think this one is reasonable, so please hear me out.

With the addition of Childress and Warrick, we are really deep, but our starting lineup is a bit week. Our SF is turning 38, and our PF is not physical, and not really a PF. It seems that Clark is a guy who doesn't want to try to improve his game, and I think with the addition of Childress and the drafting of Lawal, the Suns FO has lost faith in Clark. I believe Lawal has more upside than Clark, so I would like to give Lawal more minutes than Clark, but since we have other issues to fix, it could be fixed by a trade, and still make us deep.

Yeah, I know 95% of you on this blog love JRich, and what he did for us in the playoffs, but we have guys who can take his place, and he is making 14.4 million currently. New Orleans just made a trade for Ariza, which should make Paul happier, but with an a apparently unhappy Paul in New Orleans, and with David West only having 1 year left on his contract, they may make a trade. So here is my idea; 

Phoenix Receives

David West

Marcus Thornton 

Darius Songaila

New Orleans Receives

Jason Richardson

Hakim Warrick

Earl Clark

 Our projected roster and each players minutes would look like this if this trade were to happen;

C - Lopez 27min, Frye 17min

PF - West 31min, Hill n/a, Lawal 14min 

SF - Turkoglu 29min, Hill 16min, Dudley 14min

SG - Thorton 26min, Childress 18min

PG - Nash 28mins, Dragic 22min

and if Hill retires in 1 seasons, we would have more minutes to allocate. Do you guys like it?

As is widely know, the Knicks are NOT expected to bring back Eddie House. This gives the Suns the chance to bring him back to Phoenix. Think about it, he could play 11-15 minutes a game at the SG, being the 3rd or 2nd string shooting guard, or the 3rd string PG. When he was a Phoenix Suns he provided a great spark off the bench, which helped us in our 05-06 playoff run. This move would make us very deep and he doesn't carry a hefty price tag, last year he made 2.5 million. So what do you think?