How desperate do you have to be to fire your Coach when you are the 8th playoff spot with a team of veterans and All-Stars? Two former MVPs?

Isn’t making the playoffs this season and giving your team a shot with that line up more sensible than holding a fire sale? I read the papers but must have missed this story – Is the world ending this summer?

There is desperate and there is panic. I understand the luxury tax implications, but if this guy (Sarver) wants to shoot his own foot, there are teams waiting in line to supply the bullets.

Anybody want to check the morale meter in that locker room? It is one thing if you suck due to lack of talent or injuries (Kings, Wizards) and you have a reason to be bummed, but Nash, Shaq? Yes, they get paid more money in one year than the collective bloggers, posters and readers on this website earn, so this is not empathy, but, this is a total shut down in the works. Maybe this is chess and Sarver is Spatsky but he is looking more like the late Bobby Fisher of 2007.

And I say that only because Phoenix has been actively shopping Stoudemire. They had to have Porter’s potential firing on their internal radar – it’s hard to believe that they would switch gears at the 11th hour and then try to make up with Amare. That would be…Clipperesque.

Gentry is the guy thats going to replace Porter. Could that be a sign that Phoenix has given up on trading Amar’e, because they haven’t gotten an offer they liked and are reconsidering it?

Very interesting. I still think they’re gonna try to shop Amar’e but this coaching change allows them to see if he plays better under Gentry in case he doesn’t get traded.