Steve Nash Will End Up With the Raptors Because Toronto Grossly Overpaid Landry Fields
By Jason McIntyre
Why would Toronto do such a thing, considering they’re best player is on the wing (DeMar DeRozan), and they just drafted a wing (Terrence Ross)?
Easy – to keep the Knicks away from Steve Nash, whom the Raptors desperately covet. Even though it was a longshot that New York could land Nash, there was one glimmer of hope – a sign-and-trade with Phoenix for Landry Fields. There’s almost no shot of that now. Savvy move, Bryan Colangelo! Go all-in for Nash – the Knicks probably weren’t going to pull off the sign and trade, anyway, so who cares about $56 million? – so the 39-year-old point guard can have a swan song in Canada.
Smells like 32-50 to me.
[* As a few reporters have tweeted – even if Fields signs the offer sheet from Toronto, it can’t go into effect until July 11th. If the Suns wanted to do a sign and trade with the Knicks for Fields … that could still happen.]