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NBA team profile: 2007/2008 Phoenix Suns

NBA team profile: 2007/2008 Phoenix Suns

OVERVIEW

The Phoenix Suns ended the 2006-2007 season knowing two things- If they had beaten the San Antonio Spurs they would have won the ring- and two, they might not ever beat the Spurs. Complauin all they want about the refs, or the forearm or anything else- fact remains that they cannot beat the Spurs. The Suns also have an issue with star-in-the-making Shawn Marion, the second budding superstar to want out of Phonix to run his own team, and the people upstairs did not want a repeat of that episode. So on Febuary 6th the Suns Acquired Shaquille O'Neal from the Miami Heat in exchange for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks

NBA team profile: 2007/2008 Sacramento Kings

NBA team profile: 2007/2008 Sacramento Kings

OVERVIEW

The Sacramento Kings were a team in flux entering last year; a team that still had solid players but was getting older. For Sacramento, it had become obvious that it was time to start over. The question to management was: How can the Kings best rebuild their roster without completely starting over?

On June 19. 2007, the Kings hired Reggie Theus as the franchise's twenty-first head coach. Theus was brought in to help guide the team toward its new incarnation and to help determine the franchise's future.

NBA team profile: 2007/2008 Minnesota Timberwolves

Building the Team – Well in Minnesota’s case the rebuilding of the T’Wolves

The Timberwolves of this year became completely different than the team of last year. Last year’s team missed the playoffs for the third straight year and continues the decline from the Western Conference finalist in 2004, declining from 58 wins to 44, 33, and then to 32 wins. Kevin McHale had continued missteps on building the team around Kevin Garnett and finally with Garnett entering the end of his prime and free agency, McHale felt it was time to completely blow up the team as it were and get the best deal out there for the former MVP.

McHale made two moves that dumped his top 2 players:

July 31, 2007