Steve Francis Traded to New York

Steve Francis was traded.

After weeks of speculation, Steve Francis was traded by the Magic to the New York Knicks in exchange for Trevor Ariza and Orlando's prodigal son, Anfernee Hardaway.

For one Anfernee Hardaway, this will set his return to the franchise that made him into an NBA Superstar. Penny Hardaway played for the Magic with a towering man at the middle named Shaquille O’Neal.

After O’Neal left the Magic for Tinseltown, Penny’s show, along with his career, began to crumble. Penny was not the same since. Hardaway is now back with the Magic but it is unclear when he will return from his injury, let alone play basketball again.

Trevor Ariza is still a work in progress and the Magic will be hoping that their new young gun acquisitions, Ariza, Carlos Arroyo and Darko Milicic, will be worth their while in the near future.

As for the Knicks, Steve Francis joins Stephon Marbury in the Knicks backcourt and head coach Larry Brown could find these two egomaniacs a two-headed monster that he himself could find tough to deal with. Heck, he’s finding Marbury hard to deal with right now. What more add yet another ‘’basketball Judas?'’

That backcourt will be just crazy awesome. That is if Larry Brown can fuse these Iverson-like egos together and play as a unit.

Being one of the highest payrolls, including the most expensive backcourt in the NBA with the Francis trade, Isaiah Thomas is praying for it for his sake.

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