I love when people say things that just catch me a touch off guard.

The Raptors’ three-point specialist and defending champion of the NBA’s three-point contest was interviewed about his quest to repeat this weekend. From Sportsnet.ca…

“Kapono, meanwhile, will attempt to become the first back-to-back winner of the three-point shootout.

The Raptors’ sharp-shooter, who won last year in Las Vegas when he was with the Miami Heat, takes a certain amount of pride in his three-point prowess.

‘It’s my only chance to show my kids and say, I’m the best at something so when I’m 35, 40, 45, and my kids tell me that I’m a scrub, I can at least say I was the best for one year, 2007,’ Kapono said, laughing. ‘That’s about all I can say I’m the best at, because I’m not very good.'”

I know a few friends big Phoenix Suns fans.

I also know that their heads are shaking right now, unless they know something that I don’t.

In case you didn’t hear, Phoenix just traded Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks for Shaq. I won’t bother trying to analyze this deal. If you want some of that, here’s two good articles for you…

All I can say is a couple things…

1) Marion must have been viewed as troublesome in some way to the Suns, and I mean troublesome to an extent that it made his freakish athleticism “just not enough” reason to keep him anymore.

2) Suns’ GM Steve Kerr must have a lot more confidence in Shaq these days than everyone out there besides Shaq’s mom. At the very least, it’s been confirmd that Mr. Kerr’s still got ice in his veins when pulling the trigger on big shots… or long shots.