http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3479117

WOO IM EXCITED

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=9403

Not bad. Now let’s resign Monta and AB and pick up Hinrich.

$10 M per for fucking Maggette?!!!!!! So, instead of Josh Smith even being “on the Warriors radar” for around $12 M per but instead we sign fucking Maggette for $10 M per?!! Worst decision ever (OK, oher than Foyle’s contract).

I just wanna know what the terms of the deal is. Reports everywhere are conflicting

Man I am not a Maggete fan. He has great physical skills, but he plays selfish. He just isn’t a winner. Never had it at Duke when he left early and never had it obviously with the Clippers.

5 year 50 mil, thats fucking terrible. put an extra 10 mil in there and throw it j-smooves way, sheesh. i like maggette, but i like josh smith WAYYYYYYYY more

1. Anything more than 40 mil to maggette is crazy. nobody was going to offer him more than 25 mil (Mid-level)

2. Now we cannot get a ball handler. Ellis, Jax, and Maggette must start. We would go ultra small.

in other words, we have to pay more to lure decent players because we can’t entice them with chance of title. i like the signing because we still have 10 mil to a solid backup pg like heinrich. if we got jsmith we’d have to pay much more.

still rather have J Rich though, I just hope Wright breaks out soon and I can move finally on from losing him

Anyone think this signing was just to get Billups from the Pistons? I was reading on hoopsworld that a trade might happen with Harrington but there is no way the Pistons would make that deal and they have been really interested in Maggette.

First, he seems like a guy who would flourish under nelson’s system and be so happy to not be under Dunleavy’s stilted offense with too many set plays that it would give him new life.
Second, we are a score first team – we may want a guy who plays great defense and shuts guys down and slows the other team’s offense – but nellie wouldn’t play him. maggette is a scorer and with baron’s points leaving we need a guy who can score from anywhere on the floor like baron did- Maggette can
Third, people are calling for leadership and defense – I think SJax brings that
Finally, unlike maggette, Josh Smith will think this is HIS team – not Monta’s team. Could cause trouble down the road.
Maggette isn’t perfect but I doubt we could get him by paying much less.

If this is a six million per year contract like some are saying, its a pretty good move (only reservation is that it probably puts us higher in the lottery and probably doesn’t let a guy like Buike shine, but you never know)

If it’s a ten million per year contract like some are saying, WTF ARE YOU DOING MULLIN? I’ve defended your moves a lot but if we are giving an injury prone twenty nine year old 3rd/4th option player 50 million, why couldn’t we just have given Baron, an injury prone twenty nine year old 1st/2nd option player, 65 million? Not to mention Baron is a PG, the position we don’t have, while Maggette is an SG, the position we do.

If it’s 8 mil then I don’t really know. I guess I’ll wait until he signs to judge it, but I’ve got all the responses ready.

if we got him for the midlevel i would go crazy. if we got him for a little above the midlevel i would be excited. if we got him for 10 mil a year, i would be pretty disappointed…

in the span of a few minutes, they find out they just lost their two best players from last season. To all the people clamoring for Josh Smith: let it go, we’re not getting him, ATL will match any offer. Maggette is a good pick-up imo. He’s a guy that can score in a multitude of ways and can create his own offense. And it seems like he keeps getting better unlike BD whose best years are behind him. There’s a reason why teams like the Celtics and Spurs were wanting this guy. Now Mullin needs to pull a Billy Beane and trade for a decent PG

is dumb as hell. He’s signing for OVER the MLE, not like some of you are saying. Maggette is a good player, a great sixth man, but that’s it. He’s a 6th man! We already have a good scoring option in Monta, Maggette isn’t filling a need for the warriors and he’s being WAY OVERPAID.

Seriously though, if they’re willing to give Maggette a 5-year 50 million dollar deal, why didn’t they just resign baron. I have absolutely zero faith in Mullin.

Everyone calm down. Maggette averaged 22 a game last season. Baron averaged 21. If you plug Maggette in and acquire Hinrich for Harrington, then the scoring will be around the same. You still have 3 20+ scorers with Jack, Maggette, and Monta, providing that Hinrich is there to play point and take the playmaking pressure off Monta. Jack will be a little out of position at the 4, but it’s not like he hasn’t played the 4 in Nellie’s system before. I’m sure there’ll be some lineup shuffling.

Lineup

G Hinrich/Ellis
G Ellis/Maggette
F Maggette/Jackson
F Jackson/Wright
C Biedrins

ATL is going to match any offer

If the Warriors waited they might have ended up with nothing and you would all be angry

Pay aside I think this is a good deal. Don’t forget how thin the Warriors were last year before we lost Baron (and now Pietrus). You really don’t want JAX as the second option on your team as we all know. that is bad news.

MAGGETTE gives them more depth, a proven volume scorer who can shoot the 3 a bit (shoot it pretty well last year in fact), makes free throws, gets to the line (which we needed badly last year) and can rebound well for his size. Would you rather have Maggette or Jax trying to take guys off the dribble when things break down?

Starter or not really doesn’t matter. You know Nelson will be playing lineup with Maggette and JAX out there with two other guards and a big

Now they really need a solid point, starter or not, as insurance for mix and match line-ups and I think they might be good to go

But Maggette will probably play more 3 than 2. He’s huge, and the Dubs usually play small. I feel like that might mean that the deals aren’t done and that the Cap’n might be on the move.

I’ve been told what the Warriors’ plan is and am writing an article up right now

there another bad signing. ppl we sign the wrong clippers. I wanted Brand not Maggette.oh well at least he still got his health. his ass better put up 22,6,5 for us.

hurry Pree. this Mid-level to 10 million shiet is killing me!

calm the @# down! We don’t even know the financial terms of the deal yet. I’d be very surprised if we actually gave him $10 mil per year considering the most that other teams could offer him was the full MLE. If we get him for 7-8 mil per year it’s a GREAT signing.

5 years for $50m…wow. JUST WOW

Baron Davis 5 years $65 million >>>>>>>>>> Corey Maggette 5 years $50 million.

That’s all I can say about that.

Maggette…............Cmon…......Mediocre

I’m not hating on Maggette (in fact I like the move) but can we please put the phrase “player X should thrive in Nellie’s system” to rest? EVERY PLAYER except for purely defensive-minded players like Bruce Bowen and Desagna Diop would thrive in Nellie’s system.

corey is a decent player, we overpaid for him and we aren’t going to win a championship with our current lineup now or ever. it really sucks I miss baron more and more.

I would have liked to see Azubuike get resigned and get the PT over Maggette. If Kelenna played on the Clippers last season and had as much PT and took as many shots as Maggette, he’d have similar numbers.

warriors offered more than mid level exc for first year…therefore the reason why maggette didnt go to high caliber team like spurs, detroit, or boston who could only afford mid level at 5.82 million i believe. If it is 8.5 million for first year….its a so so pickup…i just hope we arent done yet

The gist of it is that the team is going to look into moving Harrington for backup center/point guard. I got a list of names the team is going to look at next, worded carefully. Guys like Turiaf, Krstic, possibly Arroyo, Dooling. Nothing all that new other than the word of what they want to do more directly.

Unless Maggette gets injured or we trade Jackson or something, we pretty much just made a small step forwards which is really a giant step backwards. This team really just reminds me of last years Kings, which means a little less than or around .500, which means the 12th pick, which means no point guard of the future. I don’t really like it. By not signing Baron we said we were in rebuild mode, so why are we making deals that will make us mediocre? Sometimes you have to go down to go up. I would have been fine with one year of losing if it meant more years of winning down the road. Not only that, I’m sick of Azubuike not getting his minutes. Really, everytime he’s gotten consistent minutes he has produced. Why don’t we see what we have? Hopefully we don’t trade for a mediocre PF that will take minutes away from Wright too.

I keep thinking this franchise has a direction we are going in, but it’s just back and forth. I guess we’ll see how it works out.

Scott Van Pelt’s exact words when describing the Maggette situation, “he comes pretty cheap, starting salary at 6 mill a year”

I know I’m not hearing things, anyone else hear this? Is Van Pelt just misinformed or did he just misremember?

Anthony Morelli was still on Penn State earlier today

I’m furious right now. In no way at all did we need a brittle SF. Maggette has averaged 62 games per year over the last 7 seasons. We needed a PG or a power player, plain and simple. Maggette is redundant. I would have rather have seen Petrius or Buke get the minutes. We are now back to being a mediocre team, locked into the last couple lottery picks. I can only hope Mully has more up his sleeve, because right now, I’m ashamed of him.

we could still do a sign and trade with atl for him. al and bwright and a unconditional pick or jax and bwright (i dont think they could trade ar yet even if they wanted to) al and jax have cap friendly salaries that maybe sweet enough to pull this off plus a legitamite young prospect like bwright. who knows. the fact that there was a report that gs had no intrest in jsmith tells me they have intrest i think somthing could still happen.

That’s all I ask…

we’re not getting brand. i guess his good but i wish we got josh smith. and we need a point. hinrich makes sense cuz the bulls are still overloaded with points so why not

is a great player for this team… great… yes… i said great. Now all of you hating on him should realize that he is perfect for this team. He is an absolute man in stature. He can handle the rock and he knows how to score. Not only does he know how to score he knows how to score by taking it to the rim hard. He is a beast. He gets points the best way, taking it to the rim with authority, getting buckets inside and shooting a lot of free throws.

We don’t need someone coming in and chucking up 3 after 3.. you can’t live like that. But someone as talented as Maggette at driving, scoring inside, and getting to the freethrow line, can score like that every night.

The most frustrating thing about this situation is that Mullin’s inability to sign good FA deals is once again on display. He showed this with Dunmurphy, Foyle, Fish, etc. I thought by not paying Baron, Mullin’s overpaying days were over, that he was going to play hardball and get true market value for our guys, keep cap space in case a good deal comes along…but instead, he disappoints once again.

I’m not saying Maggette is a bad player, but for a guy who relies on his athleticism, he is an injury risk and not worth a long term deal. He’s only 6 months younger than Baron, with pretty much the same injury history, do we really want to be paying him 11mil a year when he’s 33, 34?

We really need to be over the cap, so Mullin can’t be making stupid moves like this. He’s good at getting talent through trades (Baron trade, Al/Jax trade), but just terrible when it comes to negotiating with agents for FA contracts.

I understand all the positives of Maggette: athletic, agressive, gets to the line. But I feel like his negatives outweighs those positives: not a team player, not a good passer, can’t shoot from the outside, suspect defense. Mainly, its the mentality issue. Maggette is the perfect 6th man, an energy guy who can consistently get to the line so your second unit isn’t stuck out there shooting jumpers. Coach K used him this way at Duke, Dunleavy tried using him this way as well, but he was unhappy with his role. In his mind, he thinks he’s a starter, and commands starter touches and minutes. That’s the problem. He’s had 9 years in the league to learn where he belongs, and he hasn’t figured it out, what makes us think he’ll figure it out now?