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Shaq Traded to Cleveland
Shaquille O’neal has been traded yet again — this time to Cleveland Cavaliers.
Will Shaq be the answer for Cleveland’s Eastern Conference implosion? Will he even start for the Cavs next season?
L8kers4life of Clublakers.com reports:
The trade of Shaquille O’Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday was more than just a contract dump for the Phoenix Suns.
It also was done to satisfy point guard Steve Nash.
According to an NBA source, Nash expressed his displeasure with O’Neal during a meeting last week in New York with general manager Steve Kerr.
Nash, still one of the best point guards in the NBA, will become a free agent after this season if the Suns can’t sign him this summer to a contract extension.
“I think he told him [Kerr] that if O’Neal was there, he wouldn’t be around much longer,” said the NBA source who requested his name not be used. “That pretty much sealed it.”
Nash had grown weary of O’Neal’s inability to keep up with the fast-paced play that the Suns had been so successful with in the past and with O’Neal’s demand to be a bigger part of the offense.
The Suns shocked many around the NBA when they acquired O’Neal midway in the 2007-08 season, giving them a low-post presence that was contrary to the way they had been playing. They still won 55 games after he was acquired but lost in the first round of the playoffs. This season with O’Neal, they failed to reach the playoffs.
O’Neal was in the final year of his contract that will pay him $20 million. Nash will be making $13 million this season.
Steve Nash on the Suns trading Shaq:
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