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Originally Posted by flames_1987
As much as Nash played his heart out, Collangelo did an amazing job at bringing in talent to Phoenix. Joe Johnson, Amare, Nash are all stars now. What dumb moves did BC make for the Suns to never have a chance at a Championship? Pleeasseee tell me?
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No need for me to tell you when Bill Simmons did a masterful job himself in his book.
1. Trade away the 7th pick (could have been Deng or Iguodala) for a future pick and cash and then paid more for Quentin Richardson than what it would have cost for the player they picked. One year later traded Richardson and Nate Robinson for Kurt Thomas. Two years later traded Thomas and 2 first rounders to Seattle. So they could have had either Deng or Iguodala and instead ended up giving up 3 extra first rounders and spending more money than it would have cost to sign the pick.
2. Terrible offer to Joe Johnson which basically pushed him to Atlanta, despite the fact he was the perfect 2 guard for the team and signed Diaw instead.
3. Traded the 06 1st round pick to (Rondo) to Boston for a 2007 1st and money. Signed Marcus Banks for $24 million.
4. Signed Diaw to a 5 year $45 million deal that meant Diaw/Banks were making as much as it would have cost to keep Joe Johnson.
5. Finally, as if wasting the all the other 1st rounders he had he took the 2007 pick that he got for the Rondo pick and sold it to Portland even though he could have taken Rudy Fernandez (or any other Euro) who would have cost him nothing in terms of cap space.
In summary they went from Deng/Iguodala to a possible Rondo pick to a possible Fernandez pick and got absolutely nothing for it. In fact they ended up dealing 2 other picks as well with Kurt Thomas. They ended up getting rid of Joe Johnson because of money reason and spending just as much money on Boris Diaw and Marcus Banks.
Not having Deng/Iguodala and not having Joe Johnson on the team certainly killed any chance that the Suns had at winning and both situations were not due to luxury tax cheapness from the owner as the subsequent deals from Coangelo cost the team as much or more money.