I'm pretty sure Kerr is doing what he can to shop Amare and Shaq. This rumor might have been leaked to help set the market price for Amare.
I also though the Wolves were giving up too much. If they'd gotten Phoenix's #14 pick, I might have felt a little bit better about it.
I'm still betting on Amare being sent to Washington on draft night, especially if Harden still happens to be on the board at #5.
I think this is the exact reason why this trade was brought public. Kerr must be getting tons of trade offers for Amare and hating all of them. So to send a league wide message as to what it is going to take to get a 25 year old former first team All-NBA player, Kerr went out and tried to make a deal that he knew would probably never happen.
At least GMs are now going to think twice before calling Kerr up and seeing if they can get Amare for package deals that look like Scal, Tony, BBD S&T, Giddens and Walker for Amare. My guess is he has gotten call after call trying to pry Amare loose for nothing more than pure garbage.
On the other hand, we are talking about the T-Wolves and maybe they actually thought about this deal before laughing at Kerr.