In an interview with Suns.com, Amare Stoudemire shed some light on some of the moves that the team has made this summer, including the Kurt Thomas trade that was first reported on RealGM.com.

"I went to them and told them, ?Let?s get Kurt,? not knowing what the process would have been or what the process was," said Stoudemire.

"But, we needed an inside player and I spent a lot of time thinking about which player would best fit this team that we?d be able to pick up. There weren?t too many players we could have picked up, but Kurt was one of the guys that was high on my list. He?s a great defensive player in the post and he?s able to knock down the 15-footer, the 18-footer. That?s what we need."