qualifying offers to pietrus, azubuike, powell

by the evil monkey on Jun 30, 2007 9:58 AM PDT

looks like we're seeing the 1st trickle down effects from the jrich trade.

Briefly: The Warriors extended qualifying offers to Mickael Pietrus, Kelenna Azuibuke and Josh Powell before today's deadline, giving Golden State the right to match any offers the players receive in free agency. As expected, Zarko Cabarkapa was not tendered, so his Warriors days are likely done.

and nellie's supposedly amped.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/30/SPGBQQP0IJ1.DTL

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really?

pietrus and not barnes?

by hyphybird on Jun 30, 2007 10:09 AM PDT reply actions

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Yes, this doesn't sound good.

by jtoj @ Golden State Of Mind on Jun 30, 2007 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions

barnes is unrestricted

they made offers to the restricted free agents I am supposing

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by dallaswarrior on Jun 30, 2007 10:32 AM PDT reply actions

good news

I'd love to have Buki and Powell back.

I dearly hope Pietrus is gone though, hate that fool.

and yes, Barnes is unrestricted, so theres no qualifying offer to be made

by OptionZero @ Golden State Of Mind on Jun 30, 2007 10:43 AM PDT reply actions

im thinking that since there are so many people

interested in pietrus.. hes probably a sign and trade

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by jeppalepala on Jun 30, 2007 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Thats correct

Josh Powell, Kabuki and Pietrus are restricted free agents that is way the warriors made qualifying offers to them. Matt Brnes is an unrestricted free agent, that means that if the Warriors want to sign him to an extension, they will have to do it only on July 1st, they could give him any offer prior to that. And that also means that they cant match any offer made by other teams. Hopefully they will keep at least Kabuki and Barnes...

F**K REFS!!!

by faetati on Jun 30, 2007 10:51 AM PDT reply actions

agreed.

also a sign and trade with pietrus for calderon wouldn't be too bad either. hes the only player on that team i can see really helping us and someone theyd be willing to give up.

by hyphybird on Jun 30, 2007 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

Calderon

The thing is that Brian Colangelo doesnt want to move Jose Calderon. They are really after Pietrus so we could try to do that, he´d be a great backup PG. That would solve 2 great problems for us (I dont remember who wrote that the Warriors need 3 thing this offseason... 1 backup PG, 1 sharpshooter and a big PF, Garnett or J.o. for exemple):
We already drafted Belinelli who is a great shooter, signing Calderon would give us a good backup for Baron and with the trade exeption, and Brandan Wright now we have the pieces to get KG or JO... That would be great imagine a linup like this...
PG - Baron Davis/ Jose Calderon
SG - Stephen Jackson/ Marco Belinelli
SF - Matt Barnes/Kelenna Azubuike
PF - Garnett or Jeramine O´Neal/Josh Powell
C - Andris Biedrins/Patrick O´Bryant

(No Monta Ellis, Adonal Foyle and Al Harrington because we would trade them to get KG or JO)

F**K REFS!!!

by faetati on Jun 30, 2007 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions

i like it.

yeah i would use calderon strictly as a back up as he makes a nice pass first point guard. i like resigning barnes and azubuike but i think KG is still a bit much unless we can unload foyle's contract. i still like wright and beans down low and with those pieces we'd only need o'neal or josh smith who like cause he can move between the guard and forward position.

also maybe marco can to teach jackson how to make threes.

by hyphybird on Jun 30, 2007 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions

why do i have to put a subject in every time

rofl if they gave us calderon for pietrus then we're making out like bandits NO PROBLEM.

colangelo's way too smart for that.

by dso on Jul 1, 2007 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions

what it means.

Qualifying offer costs them nothing, but means that the amount counts towards the cap for the purposes of computing how far under the cap they are. Since the Warriors weren't going to be under the cap, this makes sense, even if they don't want any of them. Without the qualifying offer, they don't have the right to match, but even more importantly, they have no right to re-sign for a sign and trade. I'd like to see Azuibuke back, Pietrus only at a good price and have no opinion at all about Powell. For both Powell and Kelenna, a guaranteed one year deal, even at the NBA minimum, may be something that they'd consider worthwhile in a sign and trade (since SATs require the contracts be guaranteed). It's certainly better than a non-guaranteed deal, which is what both would probably get otherwise.

At no cost at all to the Warriors, there wasn't anything else to do.

by jae on Jun 30, 2007 4:37 PM PDT reply actions