It seems these guys running the Suns these days are determined to destroy that once great franchise they have in Phoenix.

After trading away Shaquille O’Neal and Shawn Marion, the Suns are once again on the verge of letting another one of the cornerstones of their franchise go this 2010 NBA basketball season. And in case you haven’t heard of the rumors, Amar’e Stoudemire may be on the trading block.

You read it, there are rumors claiming that the Phoenix Suns want to trade Amar’e Stoudemire away before we get to the trading deadline in a few days. The rumors claim that the Suns are shopping Stoudemire around now that he’s an All-Star and, more importantly, healthy.

Also according to the reports, the Suns have been trying to orchestrate a deal with the Philadelphia 76ers that will send Amar’e Stoudemire and Leandro Barbosa to Philly in exchange for Andre Iguodala and Samuel Dalembert. Can you believe that? I know the Suns are trying desperately hard to screw themselves over but c’mon, it doesn’t have to be THIS obvious.

Heck, they can also trade Steve Nash to Orlando for J.J. Redick while they’re at it…

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We know the starters, now it’s time to find out who got snubbed and who should be there in Dallas.

Every year, the NBA’s midseason extravaganza snubs a few players who fans feel should be in the league’s annual celebration of the brightest stars in the NBA. The 2010 NBA All-Star Game in Dallas is no different.

Let’s start with this one guy who probably got snubbed from the All-Star game this year because of a mug you can’t market ANYWHERE. And in case you didn’t get that, I’m referring to Los Angeles Clippers center Chris Kaman.

This will be the second time the Los Angeles Clippers star got snubbed for the All-Star game. For a guy who looks like a child molester, Kaman is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. The guy is averaging 20.1 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. He is arguably having the best season of any traditional center in the West and that is why the Clippers, despite all their struggles, are still hanging on for a playoff spot.

Another guy who definitely should be in the All-Star game in Dallas is Chauncey Billups. Having the All-Star game this year without Mr. Big Shot is a travesty, to say the least. He is probably the best point guard in the Western Conference at this point of the season. Hell, he should be there starting for the West instead of Steve Nash in my opinion.

But probably because of the injury that forced him to miss eight games this season, Billups failed to get the fans’ and the coaches’ votes.

”I’m sure it played a role,” Billups said, who just recently broke his career high when he led the Denver Nuggets to a win over the Lakers in Los Angeles…

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And the weirdest part about this is the fact that Arenas is finally taking it seriously.

You read it, the NBA finally suspended Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton for the entire 2010 NBA basketball season.

This is after Gilbert Arenas brought some of his own guns inside the Verizon Center to ”provoke” Javaris Crittenton to shoot him on the very same knee that always kept Arenas out of NBA action the last couple of years.

Gilbert Arenas says it was meant to be a joke, something his teammate Javaris Crittenton didn’t get and neither did NBA Commissioner David Stern. What made it even worse is the fact that Arenas wasn’t taking the whole thing seriously. Until now of course.

”The NBA has conducted a thorough investigation of events relating to this matter,” NBA Commissioner David Stern said. ”It is not disputed that, following an argument on the team’s flight home from a game in Phoenix, both Mr. Arenas and Mr. Crittenton brought guns to the Verizon Center locker room and, with other players and team personnel present or nearby, displayed them to one another in a continuation of their dispute. The players engaged in this conduct despite a specific rule set forth in the collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the Players Association prohibiting players from possessing a weapon at an NBA facility…

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It’s that time of the year when the NFL concludes its season for the NBA to pick up the slack.

And just like every other year in sports, the NBA will pick up the slack with a bang, kicking off the second half of the season with the 2010 NBA All-Star Game. Yes, it’s the East All-Stars going up against the West All-Stars once again as fans voted in who they feel are the five best players in each conference as All-Star starters.

Leading the East All-Stars this year is leading vote-getter LeBron James. The reigning league MVP got 2,549,693 votes this season, becoming the first player in balloting history to draw at least 2.5 million votes on three separate occasions.

James is making his sixth All-Star appearance and will start for the Eastern Conference for the sixth time in his career. Joining James in the East are Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics, the Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade and the Philadelphia 76ers’ Allen Iverson , the 2001 and 2005 All-Star Game MVP.

Among active players, Garnett’s 13th All-Star selection ranks second to Shaquille O’Neal who has 15. Dwight Howard of…

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Apparently, some Chinese guy wants to torture a few Chinese basketball fans.

In case you haven’t noticed, Stephon Marbury, after helping the Boston Celtics lose miserably to the Orlando Magic in last year’s playoffs, is nowhere to be found this 2010 NBA basketball season.

That’s because Stephon Marbury decided to leave the Celtics to take a break from basketball. Of course, you’re a jackass if you believe Marbury. And since I’m clearly not one, I wasn’t surprised to learn that Marbury decided to play hoops again, in China.

That’s right, the guy Mike D’Antoni spitted out of the NBA, will play for Shanxi in the Chinese Basketball Association. And just like that, Marbury became the highest profile American to play in the Chinese basketball pro league.

The last dude from the NBA who played here was Bonzi Wells and he averaged 50 points per game. If Marbury can’t score here then he better just pursue something else, like an acting career or something. I hear he can be funny in front of a camera.

But seriously, is signing Marbury really something you want? He hasn’t been the same since he left Phoenix for New York and after D’Antoni virtually destroyed whatever it is he…

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Because he thought defending slam dunk titles is under NBA rules.

Either that or Nate Robinson is just trying to get everybody’s attention and hype up the All-Star slam dunk contest because the annual event right smack in the middle of the 2010 NBA basketball season has already lost LeBron James

Yup, we won’t be seeing LeBron James after just almost a year ago, he referred to himself in the first, second and third person all at the same time, saying, ”Right now I’m preliminary putting my name in the 2010 contest Saturday night. LeBron James is saying in 2010, in Dallas Stadium, he will compete.”

As far as reigning champion Nate Robinson is concerned, WILL BE because, according to him, ”the champion has to go back.”

Nate Robinson said, ”The NBA, they asked me, ‘Do you want to do it?’ And at first I wasn’t sure. This is my fourth time doing it, so I know people probably get sick of seeing me dunk, but like I said, the champion’s got to go back.”

”And I guess, hopefully, I mean if I don’t win it, it’ll be good because I don’t want to go back no more. But if I do [win], and they want me to go back again, I guess so. Keep going until I lose.”

However, while Robinson believes the NBA is requiring him to defend his title, NBA spokesman Mark Broussard says otherwise. Broussard says the league is NOT requiring Robsinon to participate in the slam dunk contest for the 2010 NBA All-Star Weekend. In other words, they want LeBron and they’re sick and tired of Nate…

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Why are we asking? Remember James’ excitement over his intentions to be in the Slam Dunk contest last season? Well, all that died down a bit this year.

Yes, LeBron James has been having second thoughts about participating in the Slam Dunk contest for the coming All-Star break this 2010 NBA basketball season. You see, after watching Dwight Howard literally steal the show before Nate Robinson won it last year, he was going ga-ga over the fact that he might actually be in the middle of it all in Dallas this year.

Unfortunately for fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise player, James is no longer as enthusiastic as he was last year. Considered as one of the most prolific dunkers in the league today, James said that he is now only 50 – 50 to join the contest.

”I don’t know if you can get it back to the 80s and like in ‘98 when Vince (Carter) was in it. It was more about the dunks and less about what was going on around the dunks. We’ll see what happens,” LeBron James said.

James also mentioned the exhibition’s props and circus-like antics are part of the reason for his hesitance of participating in the 2010 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk contest. But unless James wants to further damage his public relations capital before the biggest summer of his financial life, he needs to man up and throw it down.

You see, James has had a series of PR misfires over the last…

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Yes, another ”where will LBJ go in 2010” talk.

We’re not even halfway into the 2010 NBA basketball season and yet, people are already trying to figure out where will LeBron James end up once the biggest name in pro hoops land on the 2010 free agency market.

Will LeBron James resign with the Cleveland Cavaliers? Will he finally move to New York? Will he really play for the Cleveland Browns? Well, if he wants to be a world champion, then Miami should be the place he should move to.

Sure, the Cleveland Cavaliers signed more talent this year in hopes of luring James back once the season is over but the fact of the matter is, he won’t win anything in Cleveland. Unless the Cavaliers really get hot soon, their performance at this point of the season really makes you think if that franchise is really motivated to win championships.

The Miami Heat, on the other hand, is probably the team that could give him the best shot at a title. Heck, they already won one when Dwyane Wade was still rolling with Shaq. And if by some stroke of luck that the Heat franchise manages to put Wade and LBJ on one roster, you can just imagine how many championships those two guys can get.

The fact that Dwyane Wade and LeBron James are the best of friends only makes James’ probable union with Wade in Miami all the more possible. And if LeBron wants to finally be rid of powerhouse teams like Orlando and Boston in the playoffs, he needs another superstar for a teammate like D-Wade to get the job done.

Sure, the Cavs got James Shaquille O’Neal this season. Now if…

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Add the fact that the freaking Charlotte Bobcats are playing much better than these guys these days and you have one fucked-up season.

Yes, that’s how the Washington Wizards have welcomed the new year this 2010 NBA basketball season. They are simply in disarray, sitting dead-last behind the Charlotte Bobcats in the Southeast. At least they are still doing better than the Nets so far but with the kind of shit the Wizards are in right now, I won’t be surprised if they set an even more pathetic display than those guys from East Rutherford.

In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, the Wizards are making the headlines not because of their play on the court but with the latest shit that has hit ‘em this season. Gilbert Arenas got into a locker room altercation with teammate Javaris Crittenton. And oh yeah, it involved three of Arenas’ wonderful guns.

According to some reports, three Washington Wizards; Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittenton and JaVale McGee, were all playing cards on a flight home from Phoenix before Christmas. McGee kicked both of his teammates’ asses, resulting to Arenas and Crittenton losing BIG.

Arenas, being the prima donna that he is, refused to pay up because he was upset over a dispute about the rules. He left teammate Javaris Crittenton to pay the entire pot by himself. Of course, Crittenton argued with Arenas over his share of the losings, and jokingly threatened to shoot Arenas in his left knee, yup, the same knee that kept Arenas off the court the last few years.

Two days later, Arenas placed three of his own guns next to…

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Aside from the fact that they’re playing for a city like New Jersey?

You know something’s wrong when you’re playing worse than the Minnesota Timberwolves. Well, that is exactly what the New Jersey Nets have been doing this 2009 NBA basketball season. They now have one of the worst starts in NBA history, surpassing the 1988 Miami Heat and the 1999 Los Angeles Clippers who both dropped their first 17 regular season games.

What has gone wrong for the New Jersey Nets? Well, for starters, they should stop signing all these women on their team. They have a seven-foot center named Brook and a young guard named Courtney. Heck, they now have a head coach named Kiki for crying out loud. No wonder they’ve been losing all those games.

Injuries have plagued this team this season too.

Devin Harris, the Nets’ All-Star point guard, has missed 10 games with a groin injury and been limited in two others. Yi Jianlian, the franchise power forward, has sat 12 and remains out with a knee sprain. Starting shooting guard Chris Douglas-Roberts has missed three games; Trenton Hassell four; Courtney Lee seven; and Bobby Simmons three.

Recently-fired head coach Lawrence Frank, in turn, was forced to start 11 different guys as a result of all these injuries. The Nets have been playing short-handed just about the entire season. But is that an ample excuse to drop 18 straight games?

Harris has seemingly shifted from break-out All-Star…

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