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Suns Land Best Free Agent Named Matt Barnes

Jul 22, 2008 – 1:45 AM
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Who needs Tyronn Lue? Who really needs Corey Maggette? Why waste your time with valuable free agents, when you can have ...

Matt Barnes!

Yes, that's right, the Suns have signed unrestricted free agent Matt Barnes, who you may remember from such hits as "that 2006-2007 season where he was good for about thirteen seconds" and ... um ... yeah. Barnes is long, reasonably athletic, and a great glue guy. He also was hardly used by the Warriors at all last season, despite their desperate need for a deeper rotation and his status as a team captain.

Still, this kind of conservative approach may be what's needed for the Suns, given that some of their bigger moves (so to speak) have not worked out well. This signing speaks of defense and a willingness to bring in guys that want to work. You have to be concerned with how quickly he fell from team captain to expendable, but for the league minimum, this is a value pick up, and a good one at that.
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