Comments on: Warriors Want Amare

By: jonathan

jonathan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:19:12 +0000

warriors should give corey maggette and brandon wright for amare datgs will be a disent deal

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By: JustPuked

JustPuked — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:07:38 +0000

Good lord Marcus, what the hell happened to the blog? When did civility and mutual respect get replaced with infantile one-upmanship?

P.S. Why’d you stop sitting next to Tim at the games? Are the press seats assigned? Just curious…

By: BigBlack

BigBlack — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:59:17 +0000

I still think the Warriors should trade Maggette back to the Clippers and get Baron back. They were foolish to have ever let him go. Yes having good big men is important, but having truly good point guards are even more important. What the hell was Robert Rowell thinking about when he undercut Baron’s 3 yr extension to 2 yrs? They’ve already lost the money in ticket sales it would have took to pay Baron. I don’t know about ya’ll but every game at the Oracle last year was a near sellout or was at friggin capacity simply because the Warriors were a fun team to root for could beat any team on any given night. Forget about winning championships, only one team gets to win it every year so it’s not like you’re doing something wrong if you don’t win the championship, because 28 other teams are in the same boat as you. That’s where The Suns screwed up trading for Shaq, Dallas by letting Devin Harris go for Kidd and look how that turned out, Detroit trading away Chauncy Billups when they were a title contender year in and year out the last 5 years winning 50+ games every year. Man, I think Warriors screwed up with the best of them in the above mentioned letting Baron go, I will never forgive them for that. Just like how they screwed up a decade ago letting Webber walk away for who? Rony Seikaly? And then for Donyell Marshall? I have not and will not go to another Warriors game now that Baron is gone, and not until they become relevant again. I’m not gonna waste my money on their overjacked up ticket prices anyways. I’ll still root for them watching on tv at home on the comfort of my reclining sofa, instead of elbow to elbow and kneecap to kneecap at the Oracle for $150/decent priced ticket. I reiterate, the Warriors really screwed up this past summer, they may never make the playoffs for another 12 years. So pathetic, just pathetic.

By: KennySeagle, Emperor of the North

KennySeagle, Emperor of the North — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:48:50 +0000

carefull, marcus, ur man tim lies like a rug

By: blah

blah — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:03:24 +0000

You don’t trade a Franchise player for a guy (no matter how good) who has an expiring contract. Get REAL!

Think about it! Okay now we ahave AMARE for one year and they have Goose, or Monta for 5. Amare becomes a Free agent, someone offers him 30 million a year and now we loose him or have to match. This is just the perfect way to keep us in the cellar for the next 10 years.

Am I the only one thinking over here?

By: Dub fan

Dub fan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:05:57 +0000

Warriors Suns
Corey Maggette Amare Stoudemire
Brandan Wright
Marcus Williams =
2009 2nd round pick
2010 2nd round pick

The trade works for both teams. The Warriors finally get a superstar that they need, and a person to finally fill there power forward hole. The Suns however get a wingman in Corey Maggette who can shoot defend and start at small forward, Brandan Wright a power forward that fills Amare”s spot and has a lot of talent but is still young, and Marcus Williams a back up point guard that the Suns have wanted for a long time, and a couple of picks to make the trade more realistic.
MAKE IT HAPPEN WARRIORS!

By: don

don — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:07:38 +0000

Hi Tim
Enjoy listening to you on KNBR as well.

I was bored one day and looked at the world champions of the NBA for the past 50 years.
Only 13 cities had titles in that 50 years.
Very few had just one title. Golden State Portland Seattle Etc.

I’ve concluded the NBA is the NO BRAINER ASSOCIATION.

Looking at the title holders it is blantantly obvious.
#1 Incredible luck by drafting the once a decade big man leads to a title.

#2 This is the area I feel the Warriors just completely screw up.

Three inside players seem to lead to the title.
Walton Lucas Neal
Bird McHale Parish
McDyce Wallace Wallace
McGinis Irving Dawkins
Michael Jordan teams had
Cartwright Rodman Oakley not up to standards of the others, but non the less formindable.

Look at the guards on some of these teams.
Dennis Johnson Cedric Maxwell
Dave Twardzik Lionel Hollins
Jason WIlliams
Derek Fisher
Chauncey Billups and Hamilton

The only player I would try to hold onto is Andris Biendrins because he does what some of those centers do on the three big man teams.

The Rest of the Warriors are absolutely available including Monta.

The other thing the Warriors keep doing is giving long term contracts to non impact players.

Go to realgm.com add up the years in contracts the Warriors have commited and NO KIDDING
There isn’t a team in the league that has more years in salary cap hell. The Knicks under Thomas were the only other team put togehter with 33 years of commited contracts. Most contenders have 17 to 22 years in commitments. Monta Magette Jackson should never have 4 or 5 year contracts because they are in huge supply relative to big man supply.

The perfect plan is to get three big men and then have the smalls say I’ll go play for them because they have a chance.

By: sweetestbaby

sweetestbaby — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:32:12 +0000

Trade Amare Stoudemire for Chris Bosh.

By: Dirty

Dirty — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:31:43 +0000

Warriors do not have what it takes to make this happen.

No salary cap relief (Foyle’s expiring contract would’ve been helpful right about now).

Jack, Maggette, Crawford all have contracts past the 2010 season, something the Suns would not want. Monta has still not shown anything worthy of Phoenix wanting to take a 5 year contract back.

Would they want Biedrins? Maybe, but Nash is only going to play for a few more years. Biedrins still can’t initiate his own offense outside of offensive rebounds and putbacks with the occasional “look-off” drive hard to the basket.

Sad to say, our best trade assets are Anthony Randolph, Brandan Wright (who is overvalued by Warrior fans), and Marcus Williams (very sad to say).

Our best offer of:

Andris Biedrins / Monta, Anthony Randolph, Brandan Wright, Marcus Williams pales in comparison to:

Shawn Marion + Michael Beasley for Amare and fillers

Ben Gordon + Drew Gooden (both expiring) + Tyrus Thomas + Future Protected #1 for Amare

Sczerbiak (huge expiring) + Whatever the hell Phoenix wants not named Lebron or MO Williams for Amare

Rasheed Wallace (huge expiring) + Amir Johnson/Jason Maxiell for Amare

Detroit’s offer probably makes the most sense for them if they still foolishly believe that they can still win it all. You have to figure Miami’s offer would be extremlely intriguing if they could pull Beasley, but how would Marion treat a return to the desert.

All in all, it’s a losing season. Warriors have been and still are trying to find a way to sell tickets and salvage the relationship between themselves and their current season ticket holders.