The Miami Heat on Tuesday completed a trade that sent 35-year-old Shaquille O’Neal to the Phoenix Suns for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. Needless to say the criticism has been widespread. Most fans, league executives and radio show hosts and callers have dissed this trade and think that the Suns ended up on the losing side of the equation.
Shaq after all is past the prime of his career, injury prone and hardly mobile enough to fit the run-and-gun offense of the Suns. Nowadays when Shaq’s healthy he can at best produce occasional spells of productivity and when he is not he becomes nothing but a big liability with a huge salary contract.
But hard as it may be to believe there are those who believe that this was a good move for the Suns. Most of the arguments that I’ve heard sum up to this: The Suns were not going to win a title playing attractive, fast-paced basketball because they were a terrible defensive team that always flopped in the playoffs and now Shaq, supposedly, will change all that. Read more
The Memphis Girizzlies traded Pau Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday for two first-round draft picks and the draft rights to his brother, Marc. The Lakers’ acquisition of Gasol, a 7-foot center, figures to change the look of the team and instantly makes them, at least on paper, one of the early favorites to win the crown of the Western Conference, along with the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs. For more details and analysis of this basketball trade I share with you a video from ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption.
As an impartial fan (I don’t root for neither the New England Patriots nor the New York Giants) I have to say that Super Bowl XLII could easily be ranked among the Top 3 Super Bowls of all time and makes a strong case for the best Super Bowl ever.
That game is remembered for the 49ers’ fourth-quarter game-winning drive. That day San Francisco was down 16-13 and the ball on their own eight yard line with 3:10 on the clock. The 49ers marched 92 yards down the field in under three minutes. They then scored the winning touchdown on a Joe Montana pass to John Taylor with just 34 seconds left in the game.
The difference is that the 49ers were actually the favorites by seven points in that Super Bowl so having them winning wasn’t as shocking as seeing the Giants defeat a record-breaking Patriots team looking to make history.
Wow what a game!
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