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No offense but have you ever seen Marion play? The reasons he is awesome has virtually nothing to do with Nash, aside from a couple of ally-oops/game.

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This is correct. BTW Diaw/Marion have some pretty regular hookups.

Nash definitely gives Marion some sweet feeds as he does everyone else, but most of Marion's scoring comes from 1) goofy-looking perimeter shots, which aren't set up by Nash any more than anyone else on the team, 2) one-on-one drives to the hoop, and 3) cleaning up off the glass. None of those require MVSteve to be effective. It's Stoudemire that IMO works with Nash and relies on him much heavier to get his 26 PPG.

While players have a history of leaving teams with a great PG only to flounder with their new team - Jason Kidd and Magic Johnson made a lot of free agents a lot of money elsewhere - I doubt that's the case with Marion. That said, I don't think he's remotely worth the $20M he seems to be asking for, unless the market makes an unlikely surge in the next year.