Baron Deserves It........

by Carmelballin on Jan 11, 2009 4:34 AM PST Comment 29 comments

I hate to talk about this subject, but I am very concerned as to how Baron Davis will be recieved by the Warriors fans when he returns to Oakland. I'm worried that the fans will boo him (I'm actually sure that some will), when he deserves a standing ovation, Hands Down!

Even when Jrich returned last year, I felt like the fans could have shown him more love. The video was nice, and we did give him a standing O, but it was very short lived.

Baron did so much for this franchise in the short time that he was here. On and off the court, he had passion for what he did.

I was one of many who was pissed at Baron when he first opted out, that is, until many of us found out that it was actually a rift between Mullin and Rowell that caused Baron to opt out. What would you have done if you were Baron? I mean, after all Mullin promised him an extension and it seemed like it was going to go through until Rowell nixed it. Makes me sick to my stomach. It was no coincidence that Baron opted out at the last minute, he was probably like "wtf?"

I am, and have always been a hug fan of Jamal Crawford since his days in Michigan, but he is not a true point guard, and neither is Monta. And I know people give Crawford heat, but he's going to be alright, have faith in him. However, it does show that we really do lack a playmaker and a guy who has that competitive fire that Baron brought us almost every night.

Baron deserves nothing but love when he returns to Oakland, and I really do hope that the Warriors make a video for him as well.

Poll

What do you think will happen when Baron returns to Oakland?

Mostly Cheers/Standing Ovation

228 votes

Mostly Boos

47 votes

Baron Will Probably Be Injured, And Won't Make The Trip To Oakland

93 votes

Video With Mostly Cheers

85 votes

Video With Mostly Boos

10 votes

463 votes | Poll has closed

This FanPost is a submission from a member of the mighty Golden State of Mind community. While we're all here to throw up that W, these words do not necessarily reflect the views of the GSoM Crew. Still, chances are the preceding post is Unstoppable Baby!

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he

gets a mixture of both boos and cheers

So I don't have a signature well these words would do! Who knew that upgrades can have downgrades too!

by 24k state fan since 87 on Jan 11, 2009 8:12 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

While I remember

Baron’s play in the ‘We Believe’ days, and loudly proclaiming to a packed bar in San Francisco that for those two weeks he was the BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER IN THE UNIVERSE, I also remember Baron vanishing for a few games a year later when his documentary was being screened at Sundance.

Those of you who want to lay the entire blame for his departure at the feet of our hapless front office conveniently forget that the dude is from LA, talked openly of going back someday to play in LA, wanted to devote more of his time and energy to his film production company IN LA, and even if he had remained, wouldn’t keep basketball as his top priority.

Baron is an immensely talented man who focused the first twenty years or so of his life on basketball. Now he’s doing other things. I don’t hate him for leaving, but I do think if he’d stayed, the Warriors would not be his top priority.

Cheer him for the memories. Cheer him for destroying the Clippers this year. He wouldn’t have saved us if he had stayed.

by Ormolov on Jan 11, 2009 8:17 AM PST reply actions 9 recs

+1.

Rec!

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by Sleepy Freud on Jan 11, 2009 8:19 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

well done

no need for any more comments. NAILED IT

"They can trade me," Bonds said. "I don't think they will, though. It's not like I want to be traded, man. I'm a Giant. I'm stuck here till the end."

by GameSix on Jan 12, 2009 7:00 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

nellie's a loser

but even leaving the idiocy that is nellie-ball CANNOT HELP bd’s “acting” career.

by nelliehater on Jan 11, 2009 10:58 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Baron definitely deserves a standing ovation. I think what your wrote about Baron saying “wtf”, when Rowell came in and pretty much sabotaged a deal that was in place for Baron is right on. You can’t blame Baron for opting out. If any of us were a wanted commodity, and someone screws with your agreement just before it’s signed, would that be somewhere you would want to be? As long as Rowell is around, only mediocre players with inflated numbers, and limited skills who don’t do the intangibles to help a team win, will sign contracts with the Warriors. I think Monta will be the last great player signed by the Warriors as long as Rowell is around, and who knows how long it will be until he demands for a trade.

by tig8 on Jan 11, 2009 11:03 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

When we're standing there...

and they introduce his name and show video of him dunking over AK47, or hitting that 3 last season at Oracle to beat the Lakers (blowing 3 kisses), or making an aroud the back pass to Pietrus for a dunk how could anyone possibly not cheer?!

And I’m sick of all that “LA” talk… Really, it never affected his heart here. Asiede from other comments, he also said right up to the end he was a Warrior and wanted to remain a Warrior. He was an instant Bay Area icon as soon as he arrived and called Radnich from his limo the morning the trade was announced. He put a heartbeat into that Soul-less Montgomery team and finally gave all of us fans something to Believe in.

The reason people talk about the front office is because they are the ones who traded J Rich and let Baron walk in favor of the current group we have now. The front office is following the same pattern of inneptitude they have for the last 15 years. No direction. They finally had a team liked eachother, liked the coach, and wanted to be here and the front office couldn’t wait to tinker with it. To put THEIR stamp on it, well they sure did. They have their big ugly stamp is all over this current situation. They broke up a team who’s most important part was chemistry, and Baron was at the center of that chemistry which allowed the team to be better than the sum of its parts. And now we’re left with those parts… Barnes, Pietrus, and Harrington were support pieces but they were part of that chemistry and now they’re gone and we have nothing to show for it. Everyone is trying the best they can, and this is the best they can do. Before Monta got hurt did anyone really think this was going to be a playoff team without Baron??

And the signing of Maggette keeps them from using the excuse that they were concerned with money or injuries. They basically traded Baron for Maggette. That is the definition of ineptitude. Terrible.

I didn’t renew my mini-plan of tickets this season so this might be the only Warrior game I go to all year, and I’m going because of Baron.

by in for life on Jan 11, 2009 11:10 AM PST reply actions 1 recs

baron

left us because he thought he was going to play with elton brand. I don’t care how anyone wants to spin this. Baron thought clips was a win win situation. He could on a contender with Brand and Kaman and still get to live in LA with his buddy Cash and Alba.

He’s still a traitor in my mind even if I wish he stayed.

by saintdee on Jan 11, 2009 11:47 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

naw dude, he acutally wanted to stay, but they hae him lowball offers and restrictions and termination options for the team if he got injured. anyways, even though he left, he did everything for the bay, palyed hurt, led us to the playoffs,

led us to beating the mavericks, the what, 6 game winners, the leadership, i mean i dont think ellis would be the same player he is without baron

by gswfan1 on Jan 11, 2009 11:56 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

i miss baron...

but i think i’m gonna have some mixed feelings just because i felt like he could have been much more patient about his contract negotiations. I know the warriors tried to low ball him and he felt insulted but i wished he would have trusted Mully a little longer and i think something might have been done. instead, Baron ceased the opportunity to leave the franchise that revived his career for the lowly LA Clippers. I admit, it looked to be the ideal situation for Baron because for one, he is an LA native and secondly Elton Brand was supposed to sign an extension but instead bolted for Philly. People were really excited about what BD and EB could have done together for that franchise but things fell apart and now 3 franchises are feeling the burn. Warriors lost their best play maker in BD, LA lost the face of their franchise and picked up a PG that doesn’t naturally fit the system, and Philadelphia picked up a hefty contract signing in EB and it hasn’t panned out as they wanted it to because Brand hasn’t played up to par. I, for one, wish things could have been done differently. I wish Baron was still here because if he was, maybe all of the misfortune that the warriors have been through thus far may not have happened. who knows? However, it is what it is and I probably won’t even react when BD’s name is called. I know i won’t give him the same love that i gave to J. Rich when he first came back to the Bay.

by ItsDatFriscoSwag415 on Jan 11, 2009 1:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Baron is getting his just desserts

I don’t care about the extension that was offered/pulled, whatever….

He went for the money. GS = 13mill, LA 15mill. The teams, when healthy are probably equally talented, so he figured his presence on the Clips would shift the balance of power to to the Clips + the extra $$, so win win for him.

I’m not into the idea of booing, but i don’t think BD should get a heroes welcome.

You get traded – you get cheered. You choose to leave – you get what’s coming.

Baron leaving screwed BOTH teams. He stays with GS, both teams are battling for the 8 spot.

Jackson probably (inappropriately) spoke the truth about Baron wishing he back in GS. But I bet it was true.

by joegiant on Jan 11, 2009 1:33 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

i like the way you think about idea of booing and stuff, but the clips gave him 12 mil a year, i think we offeered somwhere around 7 pr 8 a yeaer, (total guess)

by gswfan1 on Jan 11, 2009 2:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Baron wasn't gonna get 13 mil

Had he not opped out, he woulda had 19 mil coming his way the next season. He just went for the security you get in a long term contract, whihc is what rowell or cohan didn’t wanna give him

by jimmycaps on Jan 11, 2009 4:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't think LA would have battled for the 8th seed regardless.

Especially with Brand leaving.

"Monta is the MAN." -Bob Fitzgerald

by WarriorForLife on Jan 11, 2009 5:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

look at where LA stands right now. They’re behind us. And who knows if the Brand/Baron experiment would have worked. If Brand was playing how he was with the sixers and Baron struggling to fit in the offense at LA, it could have been a disaster either way. who knows?

Young Frisco Hard Hitter all about the Skrilla!

by ItsDatFriscoSwag415 on Jan 16, 2009 1:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

"BRING BARON BACK" chants imo

You know I spit technique to the freshest freak
Gimme a call you will see results in just a week
With the soul of a LOST HAWK
Is there a heaven for a Rap Cat, let's talk

by LostHawk on Jan 11, 2009 2:13 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

nellie's a loser

and i prefer chants of “let nellie go”.

by nelliehater on Jan 11, 2009 2:39 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

and your mother

by dungeness crabdribble on Jan 11, 2009 5:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

nellie's a loser

and YOU are the result of being the only sperm out of the 300 million that did not end up on your mother’s beard.

by nelliehater on Jan 14, 2009 5:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

hahahaha

couldn’t agree with you more!

by ItsDatFriscoSwag415 on Jan 12, 2009 8:11 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

nellie's a loser

and repeat above post.

by nelliehater on Jan 14, 2009 5:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Got to show Baron love!

I’ll stand and cheer for Baron because he deserves Oaktown love and partly because it will show Cohan and Rowell that they were stupid to deny giving Baron an extension he deserved. Baron for 50-60 games is better than this $*@&$ I tune into on game night!

by GoldenStateDubtronic on Jan 11, 2009 3:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

+1

yea..ill take baron in 60 65 games a year than maggette in 60..

or jamal in 82, you know why? we have a DEEP BENCH

but nellie doesnt utilize it

cj, bukie, marco, randolph, maggette, ronnie. i mean, thats an entire second unit right htere all of which can play..but nellie rather utilize jack for 48 minutes

by gswfan1 on Jan 11, 2009 8:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

trade him for maggette

during halftime break
return to 2nd half with their new teams

=Gaucho=

by Gaucho! on Jan 12, 2009 6:36 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

yess

let’s do that

by onedub on Jan 12, 2009 10:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Backsies!

Baron deserves it? I think Baron already got what he deserved.
Check out this comic strip on Yahoo Sports. It made me laugh. :)

by NBA on Jan 12, 2009 9:17 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Haha

That’s pretty good.

"...OlympicMike is clearly the Barack Obama of GSoM"-Sleepy

by olympicmike on Jan 12, 2009 1:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Is he even going to play in the game?

He is out on injury (ironically the reason the warriors probably didn’t want to sign him long term)

by mosdl on Jan 12, 2009 11:25 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

He will probably be back...

i don’t think Bdiddy would miss this game for anything. I am still not sure how I will react to him coming back. Part of me wants to boo b/c he did opt out without having too. Whereas the other part of me wants to cheer because of how competitive he made the dubs while he was here and after finding out the shadiness that went down with his extension being revised and ultimately left on the table. SCREW YOU ROWELL!!!. I think Ima just flip a coin on game night to pick what I do…Plus definitely Backsies like NBA posted.

by UCdubsFan on Jan 13, 2009 5:07 PM PST reply actions 0 recs