TE+Baron for AI and J.R. Smith, we at least would get A.I.!, but hopefully we have baron,monta, and beans back and we get elton brand or camby! Champions 09

get him, and since Jay-z can’t rap like Biggie. Don’t believe me, ask Peter Vecsey.

Clearing cap room two years ahead of time on the belief James’ outwardly magnetic bond with Nets’ minority owner Jay-Z (it’s not as if he rhymes as tight as Biggie Smalls) will influence him to forsake his home state of Ohio is like building an elaborate spec house just across the Brooklyn Bridge in today’s saggy, baggy real estate market.

Yet here we have intrepid Nets’ owner Bruce Ratner (from Cleveland), no less doing both!

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/8288360/Nets-making-way-for-LBJ,-Class-of-2010

That the trade exemption is expired, gone and done with! Now we can focus on a) signing quality back ups, b) resigning Monta & Beans, and c) walking around with our heads cut off until the beginning of the pre-season (or at least until the olympics… it’s been four years since the bronze medal already?)

A fitting tribute to the end of an era.

dont use it just cuz, but use it if you are getting a quality player that can be that difference maker.

Possible players we can get with the TE (ouside of Wilcox,Watson):

Raymond Felton $3,274,440 2yrs- its a strech but they do have Augustin now so where does that put him?

Damon Jones $4,172,432 Exp.- Maybe a Plan C option if the Warriors cant land a PG either FA or trade. Hes been in Brown’s doghouse but is adequate enough to handle the point.

Javaris Crittenton $1,285,200 2yrs- Appears to be the odd one our in Memphis’ gaurd filled backcourt. Yet to show flashes since he road the bench most of the time, would be a nice heir to Baron.

Al+TA to LA for Kobe and 5 tons White Widow

But the exception is only hours away from going bye-bye like Gilbert.

If Cohan doesn’t use it, we truly know how cheap he is. The Warriors are right at the Luxury Tax after they eventually re-up Monta and Andris, but can’t Cohan afford it? Isn’t he a cable billionaire who owns a team in the most affluent area in the country, full of fans who love the team and pack 20,000 into Oracle every night?

Aren’t they charging $8 for beers and $10 for margaritas? Don’t half the fans in the arena own $100+ jerseys? How can Cohan look at the most loyal fanbase in California and say he can’t afford to use the exception because of the stupid luxury tax when the Warriors are in DIRE need of a backup PG? They can use a PF like Wilcox or Haslem too, but if they don’t get a backup Earl Watson (OK) or Leandro Barbosa (even better) so Baron isn’t exhausted by the end of the year, the Warriors are going to have a tough time making the playoffs.

IM CALLING U OUT
Lil WAYNE IS CALLING U OUT FOR A RAP BATTLE

He answered the question last year when he traded away J-Rich. Cohan is not willing to pay the Luxury tax on a team that is a borderline playoff contender. If he was there is no doubt that the original deal would have never been made.

I can’t believe that people are surprised that they are letting the TPE expire. The J-Rich trade was a salary dump. After successfully dumping ten million in salary why would you just add more right before walking into renegotiation with Monta and AB. I’m sure that last year Mullin asked the question “will you go into the luxury tax to re-sign Monta and Andris?” The answer was apparently no, and guess what, the answer a year later is still no.

I’ve been saying this since day one "The Warriors will not being using the TPE. We received the TPE to shed some money not to pick up more at a later date". Plus all the teams that don’t go over the Luxury Tax gets to spilt even the Luxury Tax. So When you go over not only do you have to pay double you lose a bunch of money also. The Warriors will not be using the TPE and they never planned to.

MANNY PACMAN WOULD KNOCK U OUT IF U DON’T USE THE TE (light weight champion)
He fire rite now

With all due respect to Psion, and Pree, wasting the TPE both in the midst of a playoff run last year when we could have used it on say, Kurt Thomas or another useful big with an expiring contract, or this year in say, a trade with the #14 for a useful big like perhaps (fill in the blank) we get nada.

Mullin overpaid JRich, then let him go for beanpole 1.0 and some seeds. Even Johnny Appleseed threw them around. Hell, Jack & the Beanstalk was more productive than Mullin.

The TPE may expire today, but it lives on in the litany of Mullin’s mulligans.

I’ve always doubted Cohan’s desire to improve the team at his own expense. Then, a few weeks ago, Don Nelson said this during an interview with the Razor & Mr. T on KNBR, which made me 100% sure that the TPE wasn’t going to get used:

"We’re a team that doesn’t want to function over the cap. That’s pretty stupid if you’re a business man, to do that. Some teams can, and those teams that can are going to be better than the ones that can’t. But we’re one of those [teams] that [really doesn’t] want to do that."

http://media.knbr.com/knbr/0603nelson.mp3

the BIG caliber type of players in 2010 I bet all of us will be thanking Mullin for not using the TPE.
It’s not that easy to find quality just for the money.If that was true Knicks would be a dynasty of this millenium.