That actually sounds pretty fair to me, but that would be like a $2.25mil fine… not exactly, but somewhere close to it if he’s making $11mil per year. I’m not sure if anyone has ever been fined that much for something before.

“This story has a lot of twists to go. I’d say we’re about half-way through right now, though the status of Ellis’ ankle by February or March is going to be VERY IMPORTANT.”

again, i agree completely…

Got 500K Fine for Snowboarding.

No. You better read the link up top. I think you missed the meat of this fanpost.

I have some observations here. The recurring theme that i’ve noticed around this community is anger. Fans seem to be most angry that he has jeopardized the Warriors success this season and possibly in future seasons moreso than the fact that he has jeopardized his health and his carreer. There’s no doubt that he’ll be fittingly punished—most likely in a monetary way—for his poor judgement and possible disregard of contractual clauses. But the injury is already a punishment in and of itself. Nothing the Warriors do to reprimand him or scold him or fine him can hurt him more than he’s hurt himself already. He’ll be dealt with by management accordingly. We don’t have to worry about that. What we do have to worry about is how much of his potential as a basketball player has he taken away from himself?

Jason Williams!!!!! We could use a dope point guard about now.

at least this is about a real player, the drama over the mascot is over the top

Monta sucks now!

My feelings exactly. I am sick of this “show him some love, he is just a young kid…blah blah blah”.

Guess what…you want to be the man, you want the nice toys, the “Bling”, the fast cars, WE pay for all that, WE the fans have a right to ask that the “Kid” understands his responsibility as a professional athlete.

I love the player, he can turn games around and had the potential to be an amazing allstar. HOWEVER…. If you want to ask for big bucks, you have a duty to your club, your fans and the league to set an example. I am sick to death of poncy kids doing things nowadays with no care it the world with a view of “whatever”. I’ll take my size 11 boot and shove it deep in “whatevers” ass!

The only reason this has come out is because he knew he has been called out and he also knew it was only a matter of time before one of his “mates” sold the true story to make a quick buck!

I agree it is now down to him to really step up and apologize to the people that have shelled out hard earned cash for season tickets – Over $4000 freakin dollars this year for a pair of bloody Club 200!!!

So anyone who wants to tell me “ahhhh it’s just an accident” can offer to pay half my season tickets if they like!

They need to come down on him hard, if nothing else, to show any future dumbass that when you hold out your hand for the fat cash, you take on responsibility. There are no “fast bucks” in this world, you have to work freaking hard to get it and if you have been given a talent, then be the man that says “I have responsibility now, I just cant do that stuff”.

Like I say, I desperately hope he can get back to full fitness and I wish him luck getting there, but HE DOES need to come out with a true open apology and advise the club that he will do everything in his power to get back to full fitness. I wish him well in that, but I also know that if he does not, I lose all respect for him, and he becomes another stupid punk, gifted an opportunity, stupidly wasted.

COME ON MONTA…BE THE MAN…WE ALL HOPE YOU ARE!

No doubt. It’s consumer fraud. In 07 Cohan and Rowell forced people to buy season tickets for 07-08 just to get We Believe playoff tickets. Then they spent the offseason cutting costs (JRich trade) after misleading us into thinking the organization actually cared about putting the best product out there possible. We paid for We Believe 08-09, but instead got all this wasted talk about how this 10 million dollar exception was going to make that cheap and silly move worth it.

This past spring we had to renew our season tickets BEFORE the Warriors were eliminated from the playoffs. Then this offseason they went cheap on Baron and Monta screws up so badly doing something that he thought it was worth lying about.

That’s 2 seasons in a row with price hikes and paying in advance for a product that this sorry organization didn’t deliver on. Monta’s injury isn’t their fault of course, but investing in an immature liar who they ran Baron and JRich out of town for is a joke.

Warriors season ticket holders aren’t exactly getting their money’s worth or being treated fairly. And yes I think Warriors season ticket holders should get some money back. It’s a joke.

(I think I’ll add the above lines to my outro blog entry)

Whateva’ you like!

A 22 year old kid at a bank makes a mistake because he was not thinking that day and forecloses your mortgage on your house… “hey thats fine he is just a kid” no..I dont think you would say this if it was your house. To bring this to context, Our season may just have been foreclosed, before it even begins….damn right this is serious.

Granted a bank screw up may get sorted out, but when you are put into a position of responsibility you have to say, “ok I have to behave different now”.

AND…since when has 22 years old been seen as a kid anymore? HE IS AN ADULT….he wanted the big cash so HE has to be the man, not the KID.

It’s one thing messing around like he did last summer, when your a rookie being paid what he was, the point is, this year is VERY different. He is a highly paid professional athlete and it is quite clear that he needs to serious manager to keep his head on straight and away from his dumbass mates.

There is a VERY strong likelihood that he will never regain 100% of that spring, pace, jump that made him so special. If so, not only did he just screw himself for the rest of his career, but the Warriors and us as the fans just got it as well. I pray for him that he does recover but some of YOU do need to read up about this injury, this is one of the worst ankle injuries you can get multiple times worse than a broken ankle.

AS I said before, if he really wants to get the respect back, he NEEDS to come clean and apologize. Yes we all make mistakes, but it is how you then behave that makes you the man after the event. He can either be honest or a punk, I like to think he will be honest but we will see.

Making money is one thing, becoming a world sports star and an EXAMPLE to youngsters is something else. If he openly apologizes, I will be the first to stand up, applaud and say fair enough, now get your dumbass in the gym and get fit, with my best wishes. If not, just another money grabbing, arrogant punk with no style or humility.

We will see how he behaves.