You were a class act and I will always be thankful for what you brought to the Bay Area

i agree 100% bro. i love j-rich, but was never able to do what
BD did for this franchise. lets just hope mully has some kind of disaster plan up his sleave to ease this pain. have faith!!!!!!!!!

BD and Nellie seemed way too cool towards each other after the Phoenix game for it to be a simple case of Nellie thinking BD was tired and needing the rest. But I agree, we’ll probably never know what came down. It wouldn’t be the first time Nellie’s stubborn temper chased someone away from a team.

Your post was good and written from the heart. I couldn’t have said it better. It will never be the same Warrior team for me. It could have been anyone other than Baron and I may have felt differently, but “Baron” = “Warriors” to me. Now it’s just a group of guys wearing the same uniform.

and we let it just slip away so easily

like STIX said, GET YOUR OWN IDEA!!!

i’ve been lurking around these boards and as bdiddy leaves, i have finally decided to join. (i was thinking of joining around draft time, but i didn’t want to be one of those people). so first off thanks to everyone on this board for their insights and opinions—they have kept me entertained and thinking and i look forward to providing some of my own now.

anyway, i would have created my own fanpost if jimbarnett2kevingarnett had not stated my point so eloquently. i am pretty young—not old enough to remember the run tmc days, but old enough to have lived through vonteego cummings, felton spencer, jason caffey and thinking that danny fortson was gonna be the savior of the warriors. my first warriors memory was keith jennings sinking 2 free throws at the end of a game to lead the warriors to victory when i was in kindergarten. mister jennings instantly became my favorite player. i held out hope for the warriors thinking that antawn jamison, larry hughes, then gilbert arenas and jason richardson would grow and lead the warriors to being the powerhouse i had hoped my whole life for.

my years as a warriors fan coincided with the 12 years playoff drought. those players came and went, leaving me with sub-.500 seasons. i remember attending my first warrior game (the first st. jean coached game) against the spurs where the warriors lost by more than 30. i got my hopes up again during the lockout year with terry cummings and chris mills only to be disappointed once again. there were points during most of those years which i was left hoping for a higher draft pick rather than warriors victories…

finally that all changed with the trade for baron davis. instantly, all the questions i had about the direction of the team with trades for nick van exel then dale davis, etc. were forgiven. baron had long been one of my favorite nba players and the warriors were finally able to get a “superstar” or at the very least a legitimate nba star they had not had for the previous decade. the trade had an immediate impact—i remember watching the warriors beat the suns that first season with baron, dunleavy and jrich outgunning the high powered suns (the suns team with nash, amare, marion, joe johnson, quentin richardson if i remember correctly)

once the dunleavy/murphy for jack/al trade was made the team i had dreamed of for over a decade had finally become a reality and like jb2kg said, became the most memorable warrior team of my lifetime. for the first time ever we had a team that was on par with the rest of the league (if not better) and a team that i expected to win. for that half year—and this year even after the departure of jrich, i had the most fun of any of my years as a warriors fan. i watched more games than ever and i could feel the buzz created by the team everywhere i went and the playoff series victory, needless to say, was amazing and seemed to provide vindication of my years of my “fan-dom”... still it was over all faster than you can say run tmc/smb

now, im not trying to prove to everyone my worth as a warriors fan or try to seek sympathy. i’m sure everyone on these boards has felt similar emotions. instead, as baron leaves i want to thank him for the memories and the highs i have never felt in any other time being a sports fan. though we all wish the contract situation was handled better by both sides overall, if you are a true warriors fan, i don’t believe that we can be angry with baron. he gave us 3 years of everything we had missed for more than 10 years. though it was unexpected, in hindsight, it seems like it is time for baron to move on and time for us to move on. it would have been nearly impossible for us to keep baron/our core and get the big man we needed to contend in the west. it is likely that if baron had stayed we would be in the same situation we are now a year from now, so we are getting a head start…

here’s to a (semi) new era of warriors basketball and to hoping the new “rebuilding” process will be more successful than the effort in the 90s.
baron we’ll miss you—thanks for the memories. we’ll cheer you when you return to oracle!

Like it or not, Baron did whats best for him, but its like he isn’t looking back. I can understand he has job security and goes home but seriously why’d he have to do us like that.

We’re pretty much left hung up to dry, lets be realistic.. hardcore or bandwagon or not, this is a ugly day in Warriors history, and honestly.. as a longtime fan this is really just the worst case of a unbeliable nightmare

i swear i went to sleep last night and said to myself im just dreaming

but I GUESS ITS REALITY NOW

how sad =[

I will miss the “we believe” era. At least I got to go to 2 playoff games.

Cliff,

I mourn with you. But we must move on and look at the bright side. We have a lot of space to do some things. Tim Kawakami’s quick fix was actually kind of intriguing, I wonder how Jamal Crawford would do in a Nellie offense…either amazing or turnover city!!! Anyways definitely hit me up so we can talk about the what ifs…

Give BWright some time to develop before we go saying that trade was a huge mistake. Most important thing it did was free up Monta to be a full time starter and if you can’t recognize his ELITE talents and that he can bring so much more to the table than JRich well I really can’t do much to convince you.

If BWright can turn some of his potential into production that was a fantastic trade because it let two young players flourish for a guy that has NEVER been the same since his knee surgery.

Just like Baron I will always respect JRich for what he did for the Warriors but in the business of the NBA that trade not only made sense but set us up for the future (unless they let Monta leave in which case all bets are off and I’m taking our ownership group to meet Al Davis then killing them all).

where it’s due—BD played his heart out for us, and the Mavs series last year will go down in NBA lore. I can understand his wanting to get out now—the team’s not really getting better, and he just came off a season where most people who follow basketball know he was underrated—leading the best non-playoff team in the league’s history. It’s classic Warriors though that we get nothing in return. Life as a dubs fan man.