Travis Outlaw (photo. Bethany Gilbert)

Shaquille O’Neal In Phoenix
The idea was nice. The execution wasn’t. Phoenix jumped on the “Go Big Or Go Home” bandwagon with Shaq just a little too late; Perhaps five years too late. While I didn’t agree with it at the time, trading Shawn Marion was probably the way to go. He was the team’s ace, but his days as an All-Star were limited. It’s just too bad they traded him in for damaged goods.

Even though he made an All-Star team in the desert, it was common knowledge around the team that O’Neal’s penchant for driving up his own numbers hurt the overall makeup of the Suns. He stole their identity. This was another arrow through the heart of what could’ve been multiple Phoenix championships.

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Travis Outlaw Signing In New Jersey
Do I really need to get into this? Talk to a Nets fan about Outlaw and you’ll feel like you’re talking to someone who just lost their dog. Either that, or they’ll be spewing so much vent-up anger that it might scare you. I always liked Outlaw’s game, and while he’ll probably never live up to $35 million, I think last year was a little bit of an aberration. He’s not 9.2 points a night and 37 percent shooting bad. In Portland, he was solid. But so far, there’s really nothing you can say besides this was a terrible move and the two sides better find some common ground.

Allen Iverson Anywhere That He Wasn’t A First Option
This is self-explanatory. Although Alley I is doing whatever he can to get back into the game – and appears willing at least in his words, to play anywhere – really the biggest (and perhaps only) reason he isn’t in the league already is because he’s had a hard time accepting change. In Detroit, it was a disaster for him; traded for Chauncey Billups, the deal looked so one-sided that it was shocking. Of course, Detroit has become a melting pot for the dead and the ugly. So we can at least give him a break for that. But his abbreviated stay in Memphis that followed was just as bad.

It took him a week to start complaining that Mike Conley shouldn’t be starting over him – selling it by saying no one who’s not as good as him should be starting over him – and failing to realize it’s not always about that. Three games into the experiment, and the future Hall of Famer was gone. Even his final stop in Philly produced lukewarm results, and ended about as unceremoniously as you can get from one of the most popular players of all-time.

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