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Should make for some fun discussion. Impressed Brandon Roy is in the top 10. Have the nagging feeling it has more to do with his contract than his ranking amongst his peers.

I miss that theme.

The orchestra playing it. Epic.

Haven't read the column yet, still stuck on that youtube feed. Been replaying it quite a bit.

Loved what he said about Portland and Steve Nash.

Also loved his podcast with Mike Breen. Never been a big fan of Breen's, would rather have Marv Albert do the Finals and whatnot, but he loves the game so I'm down now.

I had never even thought of Steve Nash until he said it.. and it makes perfect sense, really..

If I had to bang out a trade w/ the suns, my targets would be:

1. ) Nash
2. ) Richardson
3. ) Amare
4. ) The Gorilla
5. ) Anyone else.

If JRich's contract was even tolerable, he'd be above Nash.

Honestly, I just want portland to make a move, so I have something to cheer/scream about.

I think it has more to do with this rule:
2. Age matters. Would you rather have Chauncey Billups for the next five seasons or Rajon Rondo for the next 12?

I mean, look at the 6 guys directly behind him-Rose, Garnett, Deron, Dirk, Pierce, and Gasol. Although I think Deron should be ahead of him, none of the others are significantly better than him at this point in their careers where it would be worth it to have the next 4 years of those guys over the next 10 for Roy.

Good point. I think if Dwill was healthy this year he would have bumped up one notch.

would be interesting to see Sports Guy rank the teams, according to "value" or "potential" or whatever from 1-30.

To be precise, it's not the top forty most valuable players, it's the 40 forty player's in terms of trade value, which is slightly different, since contracts and general health are taken into consideration.