godddaammit i cant believe baron is doing this to us..

i see brand opt out not baron.

Geoff Lepper is also reporting it.

of Baron’s talk about how we wants to win championships with the W’s and how he loves playing in the bay was a bunch of BS. if baron wants to win a championship so bad he could have played for like 11 or 12 million a year (he’s got no kids to feed like spree so he can probably afford living on such meager wages) and let the warriors pick up some other studs…..barons jus about as phony as the city of Los Angeles that he came from

Say we re-sign Baron for 4 and 48, that gives us at least an extra 6 million in cap space for this year to get ellis and biedrins signed.
Baron could be doing this to help our chances of winning a championship. Improving his cap number for this year could get us another free agent we thought we couldn’t obtain otherwise. Thoughts?

brand with bdiddy’s money now…either brand or we are going to face another long long playoff drought.

we have no point guard now.. whos going to sg and pg for us? can we really expect cj to play sg? and monta pg? man… baron better resign with us….

to be an “interesting” offseason. Let’s see what Mullin’s next step.

my boi BD opted out, we could goes for Elton Brand now, and pray AR could learn to get pg handles fast and hopefully turned himself into the next coming of Scottie Pippen by his 3th yrs. Hopefully we get Chris Duhun for cheap so we have enough time for AR to become a all star point forward.

now what?

THE WARRIORS ARE SCREWED

the GILBERT movement!. bring back arenas!

WTFBBQ? I guess he will find out where he’s really wanted. Remember when he first said he might opt because he felt he wasn’t wanted here because they weren’t willing to sign him to an extension so early?

where’d you hear this info? i havent seen anything at all on the internet yet and thats usually where info gets blown up first.

Brand would be nice in a Dubs uni, but can we afford all these guys?...Biedrins, Ellis and Brand? Baron could become the most hated man in Golden State Dubs basketball history.

until Baron realizes no one wants his bitch ass for 17 million a year

the man wanted a contract extension and Cohan wouldnt cough up the green. I dunno why this is so surprising—he’s got his future to think about and he aint got more than 3-4 years left in those legs.

Mullin better go start workin the phones double time…..

still waiting on confirmation of this but…

i posted this in another blog, but baron opting out is no big deal. we overachieved 2 seasons ago, and as such many warriors fans have a blown up opinion on the worth of our captains (davis and jackson) in regards to the future of the warriors. ellis, beans, wright, bellineli, randolph, hendrix…these guys are more then likely going to be the core of our team when we make a serious run at the playoffs, and if we lose davis and jackson along the way, we will likely be better off in the long run

and now Baron! the light at the end of the tunnel went out.

Where are we going? Is this a win-now team, or are we building for the future? The past few draft picks haven’t even gotten regular minutes. Doesn’t make me too hopeful for the future. I thought we were win-now but more and more it looks like we’re “building” for an uncertatin future. If I hear the word “upside” or “potential” to describe some of these guys anymore…...

If he wants a contract extension, opting out was probably a good move. It gives him some leverage to negotiate elsewhere, a real threat of “I’ll play elsewhere on the cheap to win”, and has him on the market after a healthy season rather than one of 4 consecutive break-down injury plagued ones. But if he does decide to go somewhere else on the cheap, it’s a limited number of bad teams that can offer him more than the MLE, and if he takes the MLE, it’s about 3 seasons before he’d make what he’d make next year by not opting out. That puts him at 32 or 33 when someone else has his Bird rights to give him a bigger payday, else he plays one year deals waiting for someone with cap space to offer him more. His agent would be a fool to do that, given his injury history, age and the realities of who has money.

Baron won’t make more money next year. He can’t. The max salary he can get is 105% of what he made last year or 30% of the total cap value, whichever is greater. Both look to be about the same, somewhere around $17.5 million. No one can offer him more than that even if they had the space. It’s all about the back end of a deal.

All of this means that while he may not be back, the odds of him leaving with us getting nothing in return is minimal. His leverage means giving up $10s of millions over his career in a manner that he’s unlikely to ever get back. I’d not worry about this one yet.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SWEET SWEET CAPSPACE!

I think he just opted out so he can get a different deal from the W’s, which would allow them to be more aggressive in the off-season. Really it makes sense since we haven’t used the TE yet.

Now if this isn’t the case then we might have the most cap space in the entire league. I want to see if we can sign two pretty good players or one star, and then just hold out until we can match Monta and Andris’ offers. Finally, its still possible the TE will land us someone.

SO… who is a lock for sure to be in a dub uni? my guess is…. the fans. yep.. were the only ones that i am sure of that will be back next year for sure. even monta im unsure about. as long as Chris “Money Greed” Cohan is the owner. everything comes unexpectedly. Prove Me wrong Mr. Cohan… ON A LIGHTER NOTE, just watched a very quick segment on “25 minutes to go till free agency” with stuart scott and stephen a smith. Stephen A Smith mentioned GS as one of the possible destinations for a high-valued pg.. don’t needa tell you who it is… but it’s not b-diddy..

tick tock..

On ESPN RIGHT NOW… Free Agencey has begun….

Trade T.J. Ford, Two First Rounders, And Barbosa For Steve Nash?

Don’t know if this was posted up there yet but.. Its kinda funny that Baron said He would NOT opt out a couple days ago. Last minute… Magette Opts out… Brand Opts Out Right After….. Baron Opts out shorty after that… Is there a sign and trade deal in the works hidden by a smokescreen?

baron has betrayed all of us…...his dunk over kirilenko wasn’t even that great lol

I say we sign Corey Magette. We’d have Monta at point, Magette / Jackson 2-3, Wright, Biedrins. I think this would be a way more efficient squad. Not to knock on BD but this past season he really pissed me off on alot of the games. He took too many selfish shots and played some very lazy defense. Magette is a great 3 point shooter and we all know how many the warriors like to take.