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of the crew's occasional lapses. He told him he didn't care that the gourmet chef would help us win the best tasting burger part of the competition because it would not compensate for deficiencies created by the loss of our drive-thru expert. The general manager hired the gourmet chef anyway, got rid of the drive-thru expert, and we lost in the first round of the Fast Food National Playoffs. As a result, my boss got fired.

That my friends is the 2007/08 profile of the Phoenix Suns.

Snake-bitten in the playoffs in previous years, the Suns front office panicked-much like the general manager in our fictitious fast food restaurant- and traded its most versatile player for a washed-up, former superstar (the gourmet chef) who did not fit the team's style. You've probably figured out by now that the drive-thru specialist was Shawn Marion, traded to the Heat in midseason, and the gourmet chef was Shaquille O'Neal, albeit impressive in his prime, simply did not fit the Suns "run-n-gun" style of basketball.

Being the stellar general manager that he is, Steve Kerr blamed the coach, fired him, and will now have to find a way to compensate for the defensive short falls of two time MVP Steve Nash (the counter guy) and manage the ego of superstar Amare Stoudemire (the burger-maker), which is the reason Marion was traded in the first place.

15 years from now, Suns' fans won't care about statistics, month by month recaps, or offensive and defensive weaknesses and strengths. They'll fret over an incompetent general manager failing to learn the lessons of a devastated Burger Hut crew.

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