Arenas GONE - $111M with Wiz, less than max =(

by BaronsClipps on Jul 3, 2008 6:35 PM PDT

Can't believe it. Mullin needs to go. Needs to go.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3473164

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oh and there's not a chance in H E double L that we'd land Brand because the whole point of him opting out (not to mention the obvious secret agreement between him and BD) was to take a little less money so the clipps could compete. Come on now, the Clipps with Brand would be 10 times better than our CURRENT Dubs with Brand. Not saying we don't have a future, I believe in our future, but the next 2-3 years go to the Clipps.

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I was

just gonna post this up, no surprise here. We are probably better of without arenas and baron. waste of money for injury plagued stars. Lets just get Josh Smith, and we are a playoff team.

by Dub4lif3 on Jul 3, 2008 6:39 PM PDT reply actions

no we're not

even w/ smooth, we’d be below last year’s 8 playoff teams, the clippers and portland (provided oden isn’t a bust).

by the evil monkey on Jul 3, 2008 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Let's keep our focus on...

signing Ellis, Brand, Josh Smith and Biedrins and in this order! We need something to put on the floor come opening night worth watching!

by GoldenStateDubtronic on Jul 3, 2008 6:53 PM PDT reply actions

good

who can honestly say that they actually thought arenas wanted to come back to the warriors? jamison resigned and he promised the wiz he would come back and thats what he did. people need to realize that we are not getting a pg of barons stature to play for us next season. the warriors need an inside presence (brand) and a player to work outside (ellis). PG wise, they just need someone who wont mess up that bad and show show flashes of being good like how rondo is to the celts. AI and j-smoove fit the warrior system, why isnt there more talks about them or other people than people we know we cant get? like udrih….pass first pg and is a better shooter than baron especially from ft

i want a bike, like a beach cruiser of somthin like that - Baron Davis

by boomdizzle5 on Jul 3, 2008 6:56 PM PDT reply actions

good

Arenas is overrated. That wizards team hasn’t improved and has only aged. They’ll continue to wallow in mediocrity. Arenas wasn’t going to carry this team.

by dhp318 on Jul 3, 2008 7:25 PM PDT reply actions

He signed for less than max, but its still way more than the W’s could have paid him, because of that sixth year that only the Wizards can offer according to the Bird rights.

Lol at Arenas saying he took a 16 mil dollar paycut because he wanted the team to have more flexibility. He saves the Wiz a whopping grand total of 2.5 mil a year. Which is enough to get a mediocre or aged player.

by joestar on Jul 3, 2008 7:38 PM PDT reply actions

Thank God

"Forget it Donny, you're out of you're element"-Walter Sobchak

by icanplaythird on Jul 3, 2008 8:06 PM PDT reply actions

lol @ arenas

I’m sorry there’s only about three players worth paying 100 million for that’s Kobe, Lebron and KG. This is probably the best thing that ever happened to the warriors this off season signing this guy will pretty much guarantee a no playoff appearance in 5 years. Boggles my mind how a guy who was gone the whole season and avg 10 points per game in the playoffs get’s rewarded with a 100 million dollars.

by CT63084 on Jul 3, 2008 8:11 PM PDT reply actions

Mullin

just drove up his salary. Good thing we didn’t sign him, we have Monta.

by semarubaka on Jul 3, 2008 11:24 PM PDT reply actions

Maybe I'm just emotional right now...

But I still feel that Monta and Andris, although they have bright futures, cannot carry a team without a superstar PG like BD. It’s just a collapse waiting to happen unless a veteran all star comes on board fast and none are available. When you lose the best true PG in the NBA not over 30, it’s not possible to recover in a Bay Area/Nellie system with some mediocre replacement. BLAH! Maybe I’m just pissed. One thing for sure, I am not mad at BD at all he was classy and did what he had to. The BD/Nellie beef is just media hype. Knowing Nellie he probably told BD to just go to the Clipps if it was best for him b/c that’s what he always tells his players, to take care of themselves financially because this is a business.

by BaronsClipps on Jul 4, 2008 12:41 AM PDT up reply actions

"Best true PG in the NBA not over 30?"

1. Chris Paul
2. Deron Williams

Period. BD’s at best a distant third, and that’s not even factoring in his durability and conditioning issues. And he’ll be 30 at the end of next season. He could age gracefully like Nash or Stockton, but could just easily age ungracefully like Isiah or Marbury.

I agree with you that we’re likely to be mediocre without a superstar (same goes for any NBA team), but BD really stretched the definition of “superstar,” except in a few glorious spurts. He was our best player, to be sure: that was also one of our fundamental flaws.

On the bright side, in Monta, Wright, and Randolph, we do have three guys who /could/ attain that status, or close. Throw in Iggy and JSmooth as potential (long-shot) free agent signings, and the fact that if we play our cards right we could be flush with cap room right when Deron Williams comes available … and there is some cause for hope. I’m not that optimistic, but I’m more optimistic than I would have been about becoming a championship contender with an inconsistent, injury prone 30-34 year-old PG as our best player.

Sign ^^^^ !!

by Sleepy Freud on Jul 4, 2008 6:22 AM PDT up reply actions

you're right...

about Paul, Deron I think is overrated, but I was just …err I still am very emotional.

What happens if the Knicks get Monta? LOL. (Please see my latest fanpost.)

It can only get worse now my friend, it can only get worse.

by BaronsClipps on Jul 4, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions

and that's if you can call him a "true" point

he’s not quite a combo guard, but he’s not a pure point either. i’d call him a lead guard, but it’s all semantics, i guess.

by cap'n hack on Jul 4, 2008 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions

yea, and let's hope

Mullin’s bad karma doesn’t come back big time and some team purposely drives up Monta’s salary to screw us because we still have to MATCH whatever offer he gets as a restrictive free agent. Mullin has already said he’ll match whatever is offered (why he announces it to the world before hand is beyond me).

by centerre on Jul 4, 2008 1:22 AM PDT up reply actions

What clear to me is

The Warriors are systematically ruining Washingtons and soon to be the Clippers salary cap by driving up the price of players on 2 teams that messed with us. Arenas is not a real point guard. We already have a Gilbert in Monte Ellis and if you wactehd Brand at the end of the season last year he was not the same player. He was getting pushed around more and moved like an old man. How baout some experienced you like Smith for $10/per and another stud with the other $8M. The more I htink about it I think we are going to be OK after the dust settles.

by smearthebeard on Jul 4, 2008 9:15 AM PDT reply actions

I think so too

And good for them.

"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002

by achiappanza on Jul 4, 2008 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Praise the lord

that Arenas resigned. Mullin is not as dumb as everyone thinks he is. (I am not a big Mullin fan myself)

As Smear stated, he’s doing exactly as he should be doing by ruining other team’s caps.

How else can you explain Mullin “upping the ante” by offering just $1mm more than Washington’s deal knowing they could easily throw the 6th year in there?

And with understanding Baron’s verbal commitment to the Clipps, he threw a deal out there knowing that Brand would be leaving a lot of money on the table if he turns down the deal and also would generate interest from other teams.

The only thing I’d be worried about is all these FA offers by the Warriors alienating Tay and Dre.

by phiLthyphiL on Jul 4, 2008 10:35 AM PDT reply actions

Why

are some people so committed to giving $100+mm to a player like Arenas? He said he gave $16 mm back to Washington so they could sign quality players? Umm.. Right.

There are only a few people in the league I’d give that kind of money to and GIl is not 1 of them. That’s why you’ll never see them get past the semis in the EAST of all conferences.

by phiLthyphiL on Jul 4, 2008 10:56 AM PDT reply actions