I think most of us will agree, we are in a major rebuild mode.  This team will be good when monta come back, but still not playoff caliber, perhaps next year they can FIGHT for 8 seed but still, the make up of this team isnt 1 to go far.  So this got me thinking, who if anyone could we get in the fames summer of 2010 class.  Right now we dont have the cap room at all, but alot can happen in 2 summers.  Using hoopshype, we can see how much room we can create.... http://hoopshype.com/salaries/golden_state.htm

1st maggette will have to go.  At this point i'm in favor of mags for anyone whose contract comes off fast.  Preferably a pf or center who can contribute something like say joe smith.  Clearl oe smith + whoever is not equal to maggette, but it might make us a better team, and definitely put us in much better situation for free agents

2nd I think most people agree crawford wont opt out so we got him till 2011.  If he does GREAT, but if he doesnt i think we'll trade deadline time next year we could probably easily move him for expiring contracts to a team in need of a boost.  

those 2 alone would clear 19.86 mil putting us at 36.54.  We could also move 'buke w/ crawford as most teams would love an energy guy like him.  No 'buke would put us down at $33.2mil.  At th minimum i see us wanting to pick up bellinelli and randolphs options which is another $4.2 mil (i left wright out because i assume wed have to trade him as an attractive young player w/ a bad contract player like crawford or buke).  All and all this would put us at 37.2mil.  

 currently the salary cap is set at $58.6 mil, its safe to assume itll move to over 60 mil in 2010 (but we can use 60 as measuring point.)

-37.2mil to monta, biedrins, jack, turiaf, bellinelli, randolph

http://www.nba.com/news/cba_summary_050804.html

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• 0-6 years of service: 25% of Salary Cap ($12 million this year).


• 7-9 years of service: 30% of Salary Cap ($14.4 million this year).


• 10 or more years of service: 35% of Salary Cap ($16.8 million this year).

The maximum player salaries will continue to be based on a 48.04% of BRI Salary Cap (not on the new, higher Salary Cap)."

Now the 2 players i'd want to go for more than anyone: CHris Bosh or amare stoudlemire.  Both would fit the system perfectly.  I think Amare might be a harder sell, but going into 2010 we'll have monta at age 24, biedrins 24, bellinelli 24, randolph 21, jack 31.  This could be a very attractive player for ap layer like bosh who will be 26.  Bosh would have finished his 7th year...meaning bosh would demand a salary of 18 mil.  

the 18 + 37.2 would put us at 55.2 + this years first round pick who i project to be a pg (hopefully pg for future) at 2.5 mil of so a season.  leaving us a couple mil to fill out the roster.  I realize that seems small, but boston filled out there roster on mostly minimum contracts after peirce, allen garnett.

i realize im deep in fantasy bball land but i pose question to you, 1) if anyone has insight to whether we could attract said players... 2) would u be willing to deal w/ what is basically going to be a 1.5 season fire sale.  

I personally would because this core wont win anything, but if we build around monta, biedrins... perhaps bellinelli randolph show to be real players.... adding a real all star could make this team an upper teir team.  Remember in 2010, kobe will be 32, and although i fully expect lakers to still be dominant, they could slide.  Spurs should be very declined.  Houston again is built on over 30 players, and an injury prone yao ming... they dont have forever.....Dallas and pheonix are already sliding.  Portland, utah (if they keep boozeR) and new orleans will be rising.... but the idea of warriors + bosh as i proposed could elevate to top tier.

PG: rookie (perhaps stephen curry or brandon jennings) + league minimum vet who will be easy to attract when the blue print for a winning team is here

SG: Monta, bellinelli

SF: Jack, bellinelli, randolph

PF: Bosh, randolph

C: Biedrins, turiaf

clearly we'd need to fill out the roster but if there's something we've learned.... there r players like buke, morrow to be had in d-league who r more than sufficient for ur 10th man on a team