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.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-clippers9-2008jul09,0,7626268.story

I don’t like this deal very much. If we were going to pay $50 million for Maggette (which is overpaying for this guy), why not something like the $65 million the Clips gave to Baron? Baron is MUCH better than Maggette and meets a need.

$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