WSR Full Court Report

No (Suns fan in the house), but I am a happy Lakers fan today!

Yep, ditto to my fellow Laker fans. I also heard Nash was trying to bring Hill with him. I'm not sure that puts them over OKC but it's a GREAT pickup nonetheless and I wouldn't be surprised to see it come down to LA/OKC in WCF next year.

Suns...you mean the second best basketball team in the state of Arizona...

Who cares about those guys!

I'm a Suns' fan and have been since their infancy.

Corky Calhoun, Charlie Scott, Neil Walk, Connie "The Hawk" Hawkins, Clem Haskins and Al McCoy with "Hot Rod" Hundley with the call.

The Suns have been friends of the Wildcats since Lute Olson arrived.

Say what you want about Jerry Colangelo, but he was a main protagonist in having the State of Arizona emerge out of a sports backwater to what is is today.

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"Moving forward means reaching out to Jerry Colangelo, and it is hoped, the governor has already placed that call. Colangelo is most responsible for transforming a dusty desert outpost into a major metropolis. He is our only match for Jerry Jones, the Cowboys owner whose stadium stages the Cotton Bowl and is the man plotting our demise at this very moment."

"Colangelo doesn't have the time to run another franchise. But in 1968, his Suns were the first contributor to the Fiesta Bowl, donating $5,000 to get the concept off the ground. The state needs his vision and Rolodex all over again, and on Thursday he said he'd do whatever he can to help. After all, he bristles more than anyone at our diminishing status as a sports market. This was once his empire."

"I love this community," Colangelo said. "We strived very hard to be recognized around the country as a major-league market. When things happen that shed a negative light on our reputation, yeah, I take it personally. Because I care."
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/azetc/articles/2011/03/31/20110331arizona-sports-bcs-fiesta-bowl.html

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BTW, as a 12 year old, I met Corky Calhoun at an Italian restautaunt on east Van Buren once. Can;t remember the name of the place but, Corky was gracious as all get out.

Suns fan here. Just not necessarily a NBA fan so it's low on the totem pole.

First thing I did when the trade was announced was to head over to azcentral is support of Sarver, which is not a popular position to take based on the thumbs down I received. Make no mistake, I'm still jilted over the whole Kerr thing but Sarver did what he had to do. In fact, I'm impressed that he didn't fold over the last two seasons with intentionally tanking and playing the game as it should be played. You play to win with what you have.

I approve this trade. Yes, it will hurt seeing Nash in a Lakers jersey.

We need bring in Gordon and I suspect it will cost us RoLo.

Word is that the Lakers are trying to go after Howard too............that would not make me happy at all. Not exactly a Lakers fan.

Go Bulls.

Jerry, I'm a much bigger fan of the Wildcats than the Suns and in all honesty, other than the Wildcats fans who live there, I don't have much use for California. Nash is too old to do much anymore for the Suns and I'm not sure he not a little long in the tooth for the Lakers.

Colangelo is the father of all non collegiate sports in the Phoenix area. I used to get a big kick out of watching them at the "mad house on McDowell." I lived in Prescott when they were started and we planned trips to Phoenix around Suns and Phoenix Giants games. Jerry Colangelo and Frank Kush are the two men that belong to a very exclusive hall of fame for putting the Valley of the Sun on the sports map.

Your post was very much in tune with what I think. Strong upvote.

UofA Steve has a sentiment that I really have to say was certainly my first thought when he came to Phoenix. That Santa Clara loss was really a university of Steve Nash loss. That's the only name I really remember from that day. I wanted to se anybody but him on the floor for Phoenix initially.

I do have to say that I have certainly seen games where Nash took the Suns on his back and willed them to win. He was an extraordinary competitor. I kind of hoped he would go to the Raptors and finish there. After all he is the biggest sports hero in Canada second only to William Shatner who effectively made safe space travel possible.

You can also thank Colangelo...Bryan Colangelo... for insidiously blocking a trade from the Knicks to Phoenix for Landry Fields.

It wouldn't be an impossible leap to suggest that the Nash to LA trade was a backfire from the Colangelos. More on the link.

Nash may have been a freshman, but he was a passing whiz.

CYCAT, you are a good guy to let them brag about the one year their star shined brightly and they were the first to knock off a team that highly seeded. Fortunately the Wildcats have had a few other good years as well. The greatest stories are when the undersized contender brings down the heavily favored champ. I think we are within a year or so of being back on the top of the pile and then others will tell their grandchildren about the time they knocked off Arizona because it won't happen very often.

Yeah he knows that was a miracle to win that game. He even notes that we beat them by 30 in the NIT to start the season the next year. He was a 6'9" Dirk Nowitzki type who could shoot the three. He likes to say that Stokes just couldn't guard him on the perimeter. Apparently Lute switched Mills to him in the second half.

He is staunch supporter of Pac 12 and west coast basketball, so he is fun to talk to. In the meantime, I will just keep kicking his ass on the golf course and tennis courts.

I agree with you though rdb, that team was built to win a championship much like our future teams are being built. I expect that we will have most teams in the nation gunning to beat us very soon just like the old days. It is a pretty interesting perspective however to see how an upset like that has changed those guys lives.

I am a huge Suns fan and I am trying to talk myself into this season not being a total disaster.

C Gortat
PF Channing
SF Beasly
SG Gordon (Will NO match?)
PG Dragis
Bench:
Lopez/Morris in the post
Dudley/Childress on the wing
Kendall Marshall at PG