In today's look into Suns rumors surrounding the impending start of the 2014 NBA free agency period, the Phoenix Suns are looking to offer Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James something they can't get anywhere else -the opportunity to play together on max contracts.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, "Phoenix is determined to emerge as a legitimate destination for James and Anthony, who have privately shared an affinity for playing with each other in the NBA. Salary-cap structures make it prohibitive for teams elsewhere to fit these two stars together without completely gutting a roster, but Phoenix's general manager Ryan McDonough has constructed a far different reality to sell them in potential meetings next week, league sources told Yahoo Sports."
Phoenix currently has $33.5 million in cap space, and could easily take the extra $10 million off the books that would be necessary to sign James and Melo to the max.
The best part of that? The Suns could very well do so without having to unload Goran Dragic or let Eric Bledsoe walk to free agency - thus giving Anthony and LeBron a chance to play with the young core of players who led the Suns to a surprising 48-34 finish in 2013-14.
Suns management do admit that such a scenario could be, in Wojanarowski's words, "a long shot." However, this will not stop Phoenix from doing whatever it takes to land meetings with both James and Anthony in order to pitch said dream scenario.
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