Shaq To Cleveland?

While the Shaquille O'Neal-to-Cleveland Cavaliers trade talk created lots of buzz over the weekend, there is an obstacle standing in the way of a future Shaq-LeBron pairing: The Phoenix Suns are not going to give O'Neal away merely to save money.

The Suns, who could save roughly $10 million by sending O'Neal to Cleveland for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic, also want to gain basketball value in any trade involving O'Neal, according to league sources with knowledge of the team's thinking.

With Wallace considering retirement and Pavlovic averaging fewer than six points over his six-year career, Cleveland would likely have to strengthen its offer to get O'Neal.

ESPN

 

From Penny, to Kobe, to D-Wade, to LeBron? That's a decent line-up...lol

 

That would be cool lebron and shaq would be a good duo. Probably could get them over the hump.

 

i would not want to give up anything more then ben and sasha for him

 

give up wally he sucks any ways, joe smith also.

 

wally and joe both are free agents

 

Stephen A Smith reporting:

 

Then it's got to be true.

 

ESPN says deal is done. This puts tremendous amount of pressure on Lakers to keep Odom and Ariza.

 

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I got my sports mixed up.

It was a reference to if it's brown flush it down.

 

sweet he provides alot more offense then ben wallace and a big body to foul dwight howard with

 

done deal

 

sweet deal for the cavs

 

Awesome superman in clevland maybe it will get them over the hump.

 

Good move. 50 percent of Shaq is better then all of Ben Wallace and Sasha.

 

very very true

 

heck i hate this news with a passion

 

Can't say I saw this coming at all. I actually laughed when I heard it.

But - It'll be interesting to see how the dynamic plays out between Labron and Shaq.

This clearly was purely financial for the Suns... They're already talking about dumping Sasha and possibly Ben too. I really hope they are able to do something solid with the extra cash because it's not a small move to trade the only saving grace on their team last season.