Warriors Strike Out Again: Jamaal Magloire Headed to the Portland Trailblazers

by Atma Brother ONE on Jul 29, 2006 4:43 PM PDT in News

If Gery Woelfel of The Woelfel World of Sports is correct, it looks like the Warriors missed out on Jamaal Magloire:

The long-awaited trade of Jamaal Magloire is all but official.
The Bucks have verbally agreed to deal the veteran center to the Portland Trail Blazers for guard Steve Blake, forward Brian Skinner and center Ha Seung-Jin. The teams have been talking for the last several weeks, with the only holdup being the Blazers' reluctance to depart with Blake, who had been the team's starting point guard last season.

The trade hasn't been officially announced and, barring one of the players failing to pass a physical exam or some other unforeseen snag, won't be formally approved until Monday after all the necessary paperwork with the league office is completed.

The Bucks were rumored to be pretty interested in swapping Jamaal Magloire for Troy Murphy, but were hesitant because of Murph's remaining 50 million on another "brilliant" Chris and Rod extension. Hoops-wise Troy Murphy is infinitely better than Skinner, Blake, and Jin. The Warriors are finding it difficult to improve via trade not because other teams don't want their talented pieces, but because of the silly, long term contracts they handed out to a group of players that just don't fit well together.

How do you feel about the Warriors missing out on Jamaal Magloire?

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$12m PF Randolph is next trade rumor ...

Blzrs just resigned Pryzilla, drafted Aldridge, and signed LaFrenz so they are now heavy on bigs and have $72m+ payroll ...

plus it's the most obvious sign that Ws woes won't end soon with out taking some risks ...

by hardcore on Jul 29, 2006 5:05 PM PDT reply actions

no more moves till midseason

So what Mullin is waiting for is midseason, when Minnesota realizes they are going nowhere.

Mullin trades BD and Murphy for You-know-who. McLeod, Dun, and Monta share PG duties. Dun and MP2 have breakout years. And I can't afford playoff tickets...

I can dream

by uberfugu on Jul 29, 2006 5:23 PM PDT reply actions

Wow

Were like the stupid kid at school who keeps saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, only for us its drafting and extending the wrong players at the wrong times, (excluding JR). And JB check out the diary on Randolph

Well theres always next year x12

by FoyledAgain on Jul 29, 2006 5:37 PM PDT reply actions

been there

done that (who would make this trade? - Well ya!)

now probably it's a different story - if Blzrs don't want their own productive big with an inflated contract they're not gonna want one of our inflated contracts (BD, Dun, or TM) in return and GS taking on another huge contract without moving one of those three is simply suicidal ... besides the rest of the peanut gallery would throw a kinipshin if we went for a PF anyway ... pathetic circumstances, personally I'm losing hope we can ever pull out of this nosedive unless we take a huge risk and get very very lucky

by hardcore on Jul 29, 2006 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions

not yet

... at least we aren't the punch line

(from dimesmack blog) [While filming a scene for the upcoming movie "Resurrecting the Champ," Josh Hartnett had to come to the defense of the Clippers. During the scene, Alan Alda's character has a line about the Clips being "terrible." According to the L.A. Times, Hartnett brought it to everyone's attention that the Clippers are good now, and suggested changing the line to say the Blazers are terrible ...]

but we gotta be getting close ...

by hardcore on Jul 30, 2006 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions

We suck.

We suck. Hell. Did you guys know that on the trade machine we can trade BD for AI strait up? How about BD for Jermaine O'Neal? Yep. It works. How about BD for Tim Duncan? Yeah, that works too. That should just give us an idea of how miserably overpaid BD is.
Not that this page is about that, but isn't this site about frustration?

Why don't we try to move BD? He's just not worth the money to me.

Truth is, nobody wants our players because they are overpaid. No one else is stupid enough to pay them so much. We found a way to outbid OURSELVES (and only ourselves) on Murph, Duncrap, Foyle, and we're paying too much for BD too.

Hell.

The Bimbo Coles era has BEGUN!!!

by laflyhalf on Jul 29, 2006 7:49 PM PDT reply actions

We're a Great Time Out!

Not that this page is about that, but isn't this site about frustration?

Never! Regardless of how dumb or terrible the Warriors might be, this site will never be about frustration. It's about community, having a good time, and participating in a dialogue with the most intelligent and passionate hoops fans on the planet.

The Warriors might be frustrating, but GSoM will always be fun! Remember, we started out as mostly a humor site.

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by Atma Brother ONE on Jul 30, 2006 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions

Blazers were worse off - probably still are

The Blazers are offering their starting PG to the Bucks who traded their's (TJFord) for a tall, outside shooting PF/SF, Murphy. It make sense the Bucks would want a starting PG and not another inside-outside PF. The Bucks also get a backup Center and a veteran PF who can play Center in the East (Skinner).

Also, our (GSW) players not paying well together is irrelevant to how well each one could fit-in on other teams. The bad fit here does mean teams may low ball the Warriors to see if Mullin will jump but that's only going to last as long as it takes the NBA to understand Mullin isn't panicking.

Mullin is going to hold firm and let his guys play this fall if necessary.

Portland's offer was a better fit to the Bucks' current needs. The Bucks give up a starting Center and gain a starting PG, backup Center and veteran backup PF/C.

by joe sez on Jul 30, 2006 6:32 PM PDT reply actions