The Leandro Barbosa for Hedo Turkoglu trade is probably the most significant move of the summer for Phoenix, since they will turn a guy that became a spare part into $9.8M in 10-11, $10.6M in 11-12, $11.4M in 12-13 and $12M in 13-14. Even though Turkoglu made some financial sacrifices for the trade to be consummated, the Suns do assume a good amount of financial risk with this move.

Both the Raptors and Suns share the potential upside, but Phoenix is absolutely taking all of the risk.

Robert Sarver has spent money this summer in ways unlike anything we have seen from in the past, so as long as he is taking on this salary and the other ones (Frye, Warrick, Childress) in a sober way, there is no reason for Phoenix to be excessively concerned that it will impact future flexibility.

Considering how unfortunate his first season with the Raptors was and how much the contract was even maligned at the time, Bryan Colangelo must feel fortunate to simply be free of it without taking back something as malignant in return. If there was one move that could be categorized as a final attempt to prop up Chris Bosh's future with Toronto, it was certainly the signing of Turkoglu. And like Bosh, it disappeared this July.

But to their credit, the Raptors weren't the only team to pursue Turkoglu last summer, as he infamously agreed and subsequently backed out of a deal with the Blazers.

Turkoglu wasn't a very good fit in a Raptors' frontcourt that also featured Chris Bosh and Andrea Bargnani. He needs the ball in his hands a lot and wasn't given that opportunity.

With the Suns, he'll move back into a ball dominant role and also play as a de facto power forward in a way that is similar to Boris Diaw's excellent season when Amar'e was injured. He will play that stretch power forward role and be the team's primary ball-handler and distributor behind Steve Nash. He is certainly on the backside of his career, but he isn't that old and his game has never been predicated on his athleticism. The disappointment of his season was a result of his disinterest evolving out of being a bad fit than any type of real decline. He is a legitimate playmaker and that has proven out during the playoffs when defenses begin to tighten.

Nevertheless, Turkoglu has declined substantially from the 07-08 season when there was only three or four players in the NBA better than him in the pick-and-roll. In the two seasons since, he hasn't been the same player in that aspect of his game, which is difficult to decipher the reason why. The past season with Toronto can be explained by the absence of Dwight Howard, but there wasn't a huge difference from the season before with Howard.

He does continue to be a very good spot-up option and he should have a little more room here as he did with the Magic. But his limitations are obvious and he won't be trending back upwards in any type of meaningful way.

The matchups Phoenix uses will be intriguing since they will be able to go small or big with Turkoglu, depending on the opponent.

On the defensive end, Turkoglu is much better suited defending power forwards than he is athletic small forwards. His performance on this end of the floor is absolutely not a strength, but he is perfectly adequate and having a strong defensive center beside him in Robin Lopez, as he had with Howard, makes life infinitely easier. He famously isn't very good on the glass, which is another area where having Lopez offsets the deficiency.

In terms of talent and the potential to help keep the Nash era afloat in spite of the Amar'e loss, I'm not sure if the Suns could have done much better than acquiring Turkoglu. The Jazz made a similar trade in response to losing Carlos Boozer by acquiring Al Jefferson, except it came at a cheaper price in terms of assets. There were several other similar players available, but I'm not sure Barbosa would have brought back any of them.

This is a maneuver for Phoenix that will really need to be judged by what Sarver is capable of doing financially in the future. If we begin to see more Kurt Thomas, plus multiple first rounders for cap space trades 12 months from now, this instantly becomes an F.

The Suns have approximately $24M committed to Turkoglu, Josh Childress, Channing Frye and Hakim Warrick, which is an ungodly amount of money for four guys that should probably be rotation players on most teams.

Phoenix went to the Western Conference Finals on the strength of their bench play, getting outstanding performances out of guys like Goran Dragic and Jared Dudley. It seems as though the Suns have taken that even further this offseason with how they let Stoudemire walk in favor of the contracts given to Frye and Warrick, plus this trade. Phoenix now becomes Nash, Richardson and potentially Lopez, plus a dream team of role players.

In a strange way, the Suns are the binary opposite of the Miami Heat.

Grade for Suns: C+

The Raptors absolutely needed to move on without Turkoglu. He requested a trade long ago and the situation would have been too toxic to begin their new start without Bosh. In a sense of desperation, the Raptors could have been roped into taking on a horrible contract, but Barbosa will make $7.1M in 10-11 and then has a player option for 11-12 at $7.6M.

He was injured throughout 09-10 and his eFG% slipped to 48.5% from his career mark of 54.4%. Barbosa had always been one of the NBA's better three-point shooters, but that part of his game failed him due to his wrist injury. He did become better in the pick-and-roll than he had shown in the past, as his outside shot failed him. Assuming he gets healthy, Barbosa is an excellent scorer off the bench, averaging 18.1 points per 36 minutes over his career.

Toronto has struggled to find legitimately consistent offense out of their backcourt since the Vince Carter trade and Barbosa absolutely delivers in that area. The kid has never met a shot he doesn't love of course.

Barbosa is more than adequate defensively and is actually an outright upgrade given Toronto's struggles in 09-10.

Even though he isn't exactly young, Barbosa has some upside given his struggles last season and I expect him to have a bounce back 10-11.

Grade for Raptors: A-

• Chris Reina is the executive editor of RealGM. Follow him on Twitter at @CR_Reina.