Rumor: Warriors and Juan Carlos Navarro

by JimBarnett2KevinGarnett on Jul 28, 2007 11:00 AM PDT

During my daily check of hoopshype I came across an article that lists the Warriors as one of seven teams with interest in Juan Carlos Navarro. The article is in Spanish so if anyone can translate that would be very much appreciated. I'm having an issue with the link but if you go to hoopshype and scroll down a little bit you will see the link. Pree, have you heard of anything regarding JCN?

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Navarro

I tried finding a detailed scouting report, but DX and ESPN didn't really have anything worthwhile.

Basically, he's a 6'3 scoring guard, experienced from playing in Spain many years. Hollinger predicts him to be average, maybe slightly above average.

He wouldn't quite be the backup PG we need, but supposedly he does have some talent.

Navarro, IIRC, has a $3.5M buyout or something? We would need to trade something to the Wiz to get Navarro, and then sign him to some sort of contract using the MLE.

This needs to be done before August 12 or thereabouts because Navarro's euro-team has set a deadline. After that, they will sign him to a new contract and the buyout will be too high to be worth using.

The Wiz want someone to take Haywood or Thomas off their hands in exchange for Navarro; both have ugly contracts and not much production.

Questions? Complaints?

(AIM: JetForze; email: Jon.d.ma@gmail.com)

by OptionZero @ Golden State Of Mind on Jul 28, 2007 12:29 PM PDT reply actions

hmm

Maybe we should get Etan Thomas so he and Foyle may be united and write wonderful Warrior poetry.

Ronald Reagan was a jerk.

by Nooob on Jul 28, 2007 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Or we could pair Gilbert Arenas and Monta Ellis

and watch them argue over who has been more disrespected throughout their career...

by sadleavy on Jul 28, 2007 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions

why would we want this guy

by Proof on Jul 29, 2007 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions

Juan Carlos in action...

Some decent youtube videos for anyone interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpCYWOJ5FLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPhTs1H-faY

by Joe Frank on Jul 28, 2007 12:51 PM PDT reply actions

Translation...

First thing: Sport.es is THE most important sports newspaper in Cataluna, very much informed about everything that goes on at FC Barcelona (though focussing mainly on football/soccer)

Translation of the important points:

7 teams interested in Navarro: Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs and us
most likely destination has been Miami, but Washington wanted a high draft pick, between 1 and 14 (!!??)
the agent said: "now it's the Wizards calling interested teams in order to negotiate"
FC Barcelona is slowly losing its patience and set a deadline of August 3rd in order to know if they will receive the buy-out amount. Because in case Navarro leaves they are under the league's limit of Spanish nationals in their team

by BlauGelb on Jul 28, 2007 2:04 PM PDT reply actions

Navarro

Maybe Washington is a little screwed here, just like Cleveland.

If they don't pull off a deal, they lose Navarro for nothing, basically forever since his spanish team is going to lock him up tight.

Their main suitor, Miami, has spent his money on Smush Parker after failing to reach a deal.

The Spurs are cutting payroll and don't particularly need to give up anything to get him, nor could they take back a contract like Washington would want.

The Cavs, as we know, have their own problems.

The Lakers got Crittenton, Farmer, and Fisher, they won't be bringing in another guard. Kobe, of course, will man the other spot and play the vast majority of minutes. Maybe they could send Brown's expiring + Farmer for Haywood and Navarro, but that might not be enough for Washington (if they want a top 14 pick, LOL).

Memphis is attractive because Navarro would probably WANT to play with Gasol, but they already spent their money on Darko and have plenty of perimeter players (Conley/Lowry, Miller, Jacobson, Kinsey).

We could absorb one of their disgruntled bigs with the TPE, allowing them to offer Blatche a bigger contract and keep him. Toss in POB and a second rounder and grab Navarro. Then we'd have an "extra" big man and an "extra" combo guard. Hrm. What to do with all these "extra" players.

Questions? Complaints?

(AIM: JetForze; email: Jon.d.ma@gmail.com)

by OptionZero @ Golden State Of Mind on Jul 28, 2007 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Can't help

On the Gooden hunt = not on the Navarro hunt. I haven't heard anything, but since this is coming from Spain, you might want to take it with a grain of salt. I'm not saying they don't know what they're talking about, but I don't know if they have NBA connections.

The "seven teams" might be information coming from Navarro's camp. I only say this because the Lakers, Celtics, and Grizzlies fell out of the hunt a few weeks ago. Grizzlies wanted him but couldn't work anything out, from what I've heard, and chose Jacobsen as their sharpshooter.

by pree on Jul 28, 2007 3:33 PM PDT reply actions

Update: Warriors not in?

TrueHoop has an update on the Navarro situation:

One of Navarro's representatives, Alex Saratsis (he works with Henry Thomas at CSMG), tells me that despite the hope that something would be worked out, there is now no chance Navarro will play in Washington, owing to simple salary cap mathematics.

So, that means the Wizards are fielding offers for Navarro from interested teams like Miami and Memphis.

Conspiciously absent: Golden State

If the price is low, like a late first rounder, I could see the appeal for the Warriors, but it appears Wash wants salary relief. We could take Haywood/Thomas with the TPE and free up $6M for them and send them a 2nd + POB or something for Navarro, ...but this would only make sense as part of a "larger" plan, and who knows if Washington would take that.

Not really holding my breath on this, it looks like Mullin is focused on Cleveland as pree said above.

Questions? Complaints?

(AIM: JetForze; email: Jon.d.ma@gmail.com)

by OptionZero @ Golden State Of Mind on Jul 29, 2007 2:19 PM PDT reply actions