If all the players did this, then the team would be able to void the contracts and be under the cap. But that’s an entirely different situation from voiding one contract.

If Monta’s contract is voided, it’s off the books. But Monta’s contract off the books doesn’t give us any tools to get another player. Without him on the books we’re STILL over the cap. That’s why voiding it doesn’t help. We’d have an overall lower team payroll, but it wouldn’t be a payroll under the cap where we could then sign someone. His salary cannot magically be transformed into another player. The provisions of the cap (e.g. must be under it to sign someone) still apply.

I’m not gonna wager against a warrior. I don’t want to have to root against a player on my favorite team.

Back in march, Biedrins had just come off his surgery and was playing poorly, and brandan wright looked good. plus mock drafts still had love in the bottom of the firts round, for some reason. I got excited, and based on the premise that a biedrins/wright frontcourt is not a frountcourt we should build around, and the fact that we had limited space under the cap because baron hadn’t opted out yet, and my novice knowledge of the cap (thanks to jae i think i understand it much better now), i thought – let’s save money. we gotta pick between biedrins or wright, love compliments both. let’s pick wright.

that was march. i was wrong. a lot of things have changed. i now believe that biedrins is unquestionably the better piece to build around (as opposed to wright), love skyrocketed up the draft boards, and baron opted out, which changed our whole financial situation. Then we signed turiaf, who is very much a poor man’s love, in that he’s a guy who can conceivably play both the 4 and 5 for us, hit a jumper, and pass.

so mullin sorta agreed with the rough idea behind all my madness. that piece was needed on this team. but all the craziness i stirred up back in march was a bit unfounded. my apologies to anyone i offended (mostly jae),

i hope biedrins has a waaay better season than love. i hope biedrins breaks out this year.

i’m glad that we got randolph. I think it was the absolute best pick we could have gotten at 14, and i believe that he, not wright, is our future 4. I believe wright will be a rotation player at best for us, and he’ll fit well on the court with turiaf.

And as always, debates in march about things that happen in june are kinda silly anyway.

Sucker’s bet, Sleepy. I suspect strongly that Iggy’s definition of “better” isn’t a valid measure.

Yup, it was in March or April or whenever it was before the NBA regular season ended. And people with brains could see that you didn’t have a clue, that your position that Love would be great AND that he’d slip (at the time to a projected 17 or 18 where the Warriors appeared likely to pick) were ridiculous then. Why exactly do you think that it being March somehow made your logically inconsistent points less ludicrous? That pre-law class must have scrambled your brain something fierce.