nothing (meaning we could just erase his contract from our books and let him be a free agent) we would have a long time ago. The thing to remeber is that Jackson has basically negative trade value so if we could get an expiring contract, that would be great.

Denver as a 8.4 million dollar trade exempt that expires on Nov 3rd. Could the Warriors swing a deal in the next week or so to send him to the Nuggets. It would sure up their bench and give them a defense guy to take the place of JR Smith or they could even play small with Melo at PF and Martin at C with Jackson at SF. And seeing how Billups turned their team of misfits into winners I’m sure adding Jackson’s hot temper won’t phase them that much. The only thing I can think of is Denver not wanting to take one more salary.

Here’s Marc Stein’s piece from Truehoop:
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/9938/stephen-jacksons-slight-edge-over-boozer-explained

jack has turned it around all the while claiming that he was always committed to winning with the warriors. did it take the fans on this and other blogs to change his attitude? did he lead by example by requiring the franchise and his teammates to strive to be winners? prolly not, but he does have the chance to spin that if the dubs win some games. funny, how this all works out.

Yeah, this guy’s a punk, a dirty player, has no outside shot, is a poor rebounder, etc. But he can run the fast break really well, as long as his knees don’t buckle on him. I don’t know how in love Denver is with Martin, but I think with all things considered, Martin for Jax is pretty equitable.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yfxhbnl

The annual salaries match-up perfectly and we dump Jack’s contract to Denver while giving them one year of back-up PG in Speedy and giving them Wright as an option to develop a PF.

For the Warriors, Martin would work well in the up-tempo system and his contract is the same length of time that Nellie is here. I think he’d be best as a back-up PF and occasional starter. I’m not sure if he’s a better alternative to Maggette playing the 4, but at least Martin gives the illusion he’s a PF, even though he rebounds and defends poor. But, at least we’d get some service out of the PF position with Wright’s injury and we don’t need to worry about developing him. He’s a vet and him and Nellie are perfect for each other.

I think most people who understand the NBA realize that moving Jack for “nothing” hurts us short term. History has shown that most predominantly young teams usually don’t win in the NBA (see OKC).

Thing is, even with Jack (barring unforeseen injuries to top players on playoff caliber teams) the Warriors are probably a 9th seed at best. Getting Curry & Morrow minutes to get experience will probably benefit the team more than anything else. Unless you want to limit Morrow’s minutes (and therefore his numbers) to keep his contract in Buike territory.

Preferably for someone like Haslem who is expiring and is still at the level of an NBA back up big.