by The Boss on April 11, 2009
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The World Famous LayupDrill Rumor Mill
4/11/09
As the season quickly comes to an end for many teams, franchises will begin to look at filling head coaching vacancies as soon as possible. Often teams like to get their new regime in before the NBA draft, so the new coach can have a say on the player their team will select.
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by The Boss on April 8, 2009
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The World Famous LayupDrill Rumor Mill
4/8/09
With the Suns now thinking about their summer vacation plans instead of a playoff match up, the biggest Sun of them all is thinking about where he wants to play next year. Word out of Dallas is that Shaq and Mark Cuban had informal talks about having him in a Mavericks uniform next season. The Dallas Morning News reports a potential deal would include sending Shaq to Dallas for Jerry Stackhouse and Erick Dampier, and at least on numbers alone, the money makes sense. Phoenix would do this deal to save money, and Dallas would do this deal to add a scoring force to play alongside Dirk in the paint. Mark Cuban, who has always enjoyed the antics of O’Neal, would reportedly jump at a chance to make a deal for Shaq, as O’Neal would mean so much more than wins and losses to his franchise. Stay tuned to this one…. [click to continue…]