I’d throw them anything on our roster aside from Rose. Draft picks, and cash, too. Whatever it takes.

they would most likely have to give up Hinrich to address Phoenix’s longtime problem of having a true backup point guard to Nash and then maybe throw in some young blood in Noah to see how he develops alongside Robin Lopez

heres how i see it (although i highly doubt the Bulls do it)
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=1711198132242456304121661727&teams=21212121444&te=336:4-788&cash=

Bulls trade: Deng, Gooden, Noah and 1st rd pick in 2009 or 2010

Suns trade: Amare

Bulls lineup

Rose – Hinrich
Gordon – Hinrich
Sefolosha – Nocioni
Thomas – Nocioni
Amare – Gray

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=2429171132241727&teams=2121214&te=&cash=

You would probably have to let Gordon walk and pick up a veteran shooting guard or small forward in free agency. I would give the Suns Noah or Thomas (or both) but Noah works on the trade machine without the Suns having to give up any other players. They receive 2 young players and a pick and a expiring contract for a player it doesn’t seem like they like or want to resign. If they move Nash or Shaq they can rebuild there team with lots of young players very quickly. (Shaq in San Antonio, New Orleans or Cleveland? Nash in Houston, New York or Orlando?)

The next step of course would be to get a competent coach who would get these guys respect right away and preach defense. But it would be a dramatic improvement over the situation we have now.

As long as Amare agreed to an extension prior to the trade. There’s no way you can trade 3 of our guys just for a one year rental. I’m sure Kerr would want to start with Hinrich and Deng in any trade.

Or put the Suns even further over the LT, which I think they’d want to avoid if they’re trading Amare.

so you can pretty much forget about it.

so much I could say about this, from a Suns fan’s perspective. But let’s just keep it at this for now: Since Kerr is a genius moron, this is entirely possible, and couldn’t possibly his worst trade as long as Hughes, Nocioni or Gooden aren’t involved. In other words, perhaps he should be looking to deal with CHI, since the Bulls have the most (available?) young talent not playing for a team that’s already taken advantage of him. (POR, OKC, MIA)

I’d think the Suns would want Hinrich as Nash backup and 6th/7th man, Deng as the long term 3 and talent balance (uh, not quite though!) for Amare All-Star, and a pick(s) and or young big. Bulls would be smart to get Barbosa back as a cheaper (better?) BG replacement. So, altough I didn’t click any of the trade machine links, it looks like folks are on the right track here.

As sports2 states, neither team probably wants to do this so badly they’ll pay a tax in addition to what they’ll have to give up in such a blockbuster. So the biggest obstacle could be making the $ balance near to exactly.

What I’d be concerned about for the Bulls’ fan perspective is over-rating Amare’s awesomeness. Deng would give them the glue guy they desperately need, but what they really need is for Amare to do just a little of the old Marion and Diaw and Bell team/defensive stuff. On the other hand, I’ll probably enjoy the Suns much much more if my Bulls trade away all their good youth. LOL!

If I were the Suns, I’d simply say they want a trade that maximizes their return along two dimensions.
1. Financial
2. Talent

When you take both dimensions into perspective, I don’t see that we can make a better offer than what I’d expect other teams to offer.

I mean, we can’t offer much relief. Gooden’s $7M expiring + Hughes’ $26M comes to $13M next year for Hughes instead of $16M or so for Amare. If they’re looking for financial relief, sure, they’ll lose on talent, but paying Hughes $13M is losing on talent and getting a shitty financial deal too.

There are plenty of teams out there with bigger expiring contracts who could take on Amare. And offer more talent too.

Think about Detroit. Detroit is willing to shop AI and Sheed, supposedly. You don’t think the Pistons would trade one or both of those guys for Amare?

And if you’re the Suns, wouldn’t you rather have an expiring contract than have to pay Larry Hughes $13M next year? And if you’re trying to give it a go with Shaq and Nash for the rest of this year, wouldn’t you rather have one of those two guys, who are probably both hall of famers, than Larry Hughes?

Suppose the Suns traded Amare + JRich + Goron Dragic (they signed him for three years and he blows) for AI and Sheed.

The Suns get to trot out
1-Nash
2-AI
3-Grant Hill
4-Rasheed Wallace
5-Shaq

Granted they’re all ancient, but that’s a freaking exciting team. There will be a lot of people paying to see if the old geezers can make one more run at the title. And you know what, they’ll at least have as good a chance to win this season as they do now. Probably better. And they’ll sell lots of jerseys and sell out their games.

And next year, they go from having $75M under contract to having about $45M under contract. That’s about $15M under the cap. $30M under the cap because Steve Nash’s deal is non-guaranteed. That’ll let them either re-sign guys for less money and make another 1 year push, or go ahead and start a major rebuild.

Would the Pistons do it?
Doesn’t
1- Stuckey
2- Rip
3- JRich
4- Amare
5- McDyess

Look like an Eastern conference contender? Sure does to me.

Money better spent elsewhere. This guy’s head is going to inflate even more after starting the all-star game next weekend. The most overrated all-star that has no business starting. He has no post game. He has no defensive instinct, or willingness to learn/play defense. He rebounds like Eddy Curry. I’m sorry, he’s not even going to be able to score consistently with a Steve Nash – type point guard, which Derrick Rose is not.

BSotS suggests trading Amare for Spencer Hawes and Beno Udrih (and Kenny Thomas with his Hughes-esque contract!)