the only way I like this is if we let Marion's contract expire. i've said it on another blog, although I was much more profane about it, I want nothing to do with Shawn Marion. Let me explain why:
Bill Simmons does an MVP breakdown every year. He starts from the LVP (Least Valuable Player) and works up to his MVP choice. He begins at number 450 (which is Stephon Marbury) and skips numbers here and there and gives funny little explanations. Number 105 is Shawn Marion. Here's Simmons' comment:
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Game Show Host: 'Welcome back to 'Control Your NBA Destiny,' I'm Peter Tomarkin Jr. We're here with Shawn Marion of the Phoenix Suns. Shawn, before we went to commercial, we gave you the choice of two doors. Behind Door No. 1, you have the chance to keep playing with the great
Steve Nash and potentially win an NBA title in Arizona. Behind Door No. 2, you can change your destiny, move to Miami, play with
Ricky Davis and half the D-League on a terrible team, go for your own stats for a few weeks, then get sidelined with a made-up injury and get all of March, April, May and June off. Shawn, it's up to you ... it's time to control your NBA destiny.'
Marion: 'In Miami, even if we missed the playoffs and I got all that time off, I'd get paid the same amount, right?'
Game Show Host: 'That's correct: $16 million this year, $17 million next year.'
Shawn: 'I'll take Door No. 2!'"
Any questions? There is nothing in this world that would make a man stupid enough to think that he would be better off somewhere other than playing with Steve Nash and Amare Stoudamire. The only thing that would cause that is ego, plain and simple. Marion basically turned down a championship to be the man. If he had accepted his role, which really wasn't bad by most standards, the Suns would be the first seed in the West and would probably be the favorites to win the championship. But no, he had to go and be a baby and get traded.
Now, the best case scenario with taking him in my opinion would be to use him for one purpose and one purpose only: an expiring contract. We could sit him all year and just wait for him to come off the books or S&T him. The thing I'd worry about is his attitude and how it would affect the locker room. We already have Kenny Thomas for that, why add another cancer?
