
Gilbert Arenas must be following Lebron James’ lead this time. Arenas has filed a formal number change for the 2010-11 season with the league, and will go from wearing 0 to the number 6. Why 6 you ask? Well, Arenas’ birthday is the 6th day of the year(Jan.6), and he was also suspended that day. Mike Miller of the Wizards currently wears 6, and gave the ok to give up his number to Gil. As bad as the Wizards are right now, Miller might be willing to do anything if it means he could get out of town like Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, and company did.

The trade rumors circulating the future home of Suns forward Amare Stoudemire has been on again, and off again, for over a year. If you remember, it was this time last season we were talking about how the Suns were going to build their franchise around Amare, after firing Terry Porter as head coach. Porter was the fall guy for the failed attempt of playing Amare alongside Shaq on the Suns front line. Now, a year later, rumors are circulating around the net that the Cavaliers may be looking at stealing the headlines during the All-Star break with a blockbuster deal. The proposed trade would send Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas along with promising forward J.J Hickson to Phoenix for Stoudemire. Cleveland would then look to lock up both Lebron and Stoudemire to long term deals, pairing the two dynamic stars together for years to come. How would Amare and Shaq co-exist on Lebron’s team? [click to continue…]