Have you ever had a relationship with someone you constantly put on the back-burner? Where it was fun at first, but then you got bored and realized it wasn’t meant to be, only to see that person find love with someone else and have it eat you up inside? For the Phoenix Suns, Earl Barron was that fallback hookup as a third string call-up, but now it appears he’s been wooed by someone else.
According to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports, Jason Richardson‘s retirement has prompted the Atlanta Hawks to add Barron to their training camp roster:
With Jason Richardson retiring, a source said that the Hawks will be replacing him on training camp roster with veteran center Earl Barron.