No Truth to the Steve Nash Trade Rumors?

In the past couple days Nash's name has been thrown around quite a bit. There was a rumor making the rounds yesterday about the Minnesota Timberwolves offering the Suns the number two pick and whatever else it would take to make the deal work under the CBA (the Wolves have about $4 million in cap space, so they would have to send about $7 million or so in contracts back to the Suns). Then there was another rumor involving the New York Knicks, one that would have to center around veteran point guard Chauncey Billups for cap reasons (unless the Knicks were going to move Amar'e Stoudemire or Carmelo Anthony, which they are not).

Had the Suns changed their tune?

Regarding the Minnesota rumor, someone close to Nash told Ken Berger of CBS Sports: "I can't believe (Phoenix) would do that to Steve."

Following all of this hullabaloo, Suns' President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby made an emphatic statement to Paul Coro of The Arizona Republic: "We are not trading Steve Nash. Period. Exclamation point."