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This writer must be the Miami version of Frank Z. from the Toronto Sun.
The reason Riley didn't go hard after Bosh is because BC wasn't entertaining any deadline proposals for Bosh becasuse he knows he can get better value in return trading Bosh in a sign-n-trade this summer (should Bosh not want to re-sign).
Riley went after Amare and Boozer hard before the deadline because both the Suns and Jazz feel their respective players are likekly going to opt-out (in Amare's case) and leave to try to sign a max-deal with another team, and both the Suns and Jazz seem very reluctant to offer their respective players max money.
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As Heat President Pat Riley spoke Thursday about Amare Stoudemire without mentioning Stoudemire by name, as he spoke about attacking “the opportunity of going after who we considered the most talented player that was out there,” it was as if there was a revelation.
Would Riley have spoken that way about Stoudemire and the pursuit of the Suns forward at the trading deadline if he had any inside knowledge that Chris Bosh was poised to join Dwyane Wade in South Florida next season?
For months, with Wade and Bosh represented by the same agent, there was thought that Riley must know something through his conversations with Henry Thomas, must have an inkling about Bosh’s free-agent intentions.
Yet if Riley knew that South Florida was a preferred landing spot for Bosh alongside Wade, with the Heat hoarding cap space for just such an eventuality, would he have entered into such a public pursuit of Stoudemire?
On the other hand, if Riley knew — or knows — that Bosh isn’t coming, then there is plenty to be said about a very public courtship of arguably the next-best big man who could be available in the offseason.
“The player that we went after,” Riley said, “we went after very hard.”
That player was Stoudemire.
And Riley did it because he knew something about Bosh.
Or because, like the rest of us, he knows nothing at all.
Would Riley have spoken that way about Stoudemire and the pursuit of the Suns forward at the trading deadline if he had any inside knowledge that Chris Bosh was poised to join Dwyane Wade in South Florida next season?
For months, with Wade and Bosh represented by the same agent, there was thought that Riley must know something through his conversations with Henry Thomas, must have an inkling about Bosh’s free-agent intentions.
Yet if Riley knew that South Florida was a preferred landing spot for Bosh alongside Wade, with the Heat hoarding cap space for just such an eventuality, would he have entered into such a public pursuit of Stoudemire?
On the other hand, if Riley knew — or knows — that Bosh isn’t coming, then there is plenty to be said about a very public courtship of arguably the next-best big man who could be available in the offseason.
“The player that we went after,” Riley said, “we went after very hard.”
That player was Stoudemire.
And Riley did it because he knew something about Bosh.
Or because, like the rest of us, he knows nothing at all.
The reason Riley didn't go hard after Bosh is because BC wasn't entertaining any deadline proposals for Bosh becasuse he knows he can get better value in return trading Bosh in a sign-n-trade this summer (should Bosh not want to re-sign).
Riley went after Amare and Boozer hard before the deadline because both the Suns and Jazz feel their respective players are likekly going to opt-out (in Amare's case) and leave to try to sign a max-deal with another team, and both the Suns and Jazz seem very reluctant to offer their respective players max money.
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