Being an olympian with a terrific chance of bringing home gold, you'd think this would be one of the happiest times in an athletes' life.

But despite being all the way in Greece Suns forward Shawn Marion cannot escape the trade speculation.  Phoenix offered the forward in a potential deal involving Tracy McGrady and the Orlando Magic earlier this summer, and according to reports he has remained on the block ever since.

"I've been hearing that all summer," Marion said Friday after the U.S. basketball team was 40 minutes late for a news conference. "It's a possibility. That's the NBA. The majority of the time you hear about players who just got a big contract. They're the ones who get traded.

"It comes with the territory."

With McGrady ending up in Houston rather than Phoenix there is now talk that the Suns will try to trade Marion for a big man after the Olympics.

Marion declined to place any odds on whether he would be back with the Suns next season.

"I don't know," he said. "You know as much as I do."