Lots of false statements in this fanpost.

First, let’s start off with some truth.

how dysfunctional the Warriors are

Yes, Chris Cohan still owns the team. Yes, we are a dysfunctional organization.

Now, on to the untruths.

first they traded Jason Richardson, a 20-point scorer, for Brandon Wright, who has become irrelevant with the Warriors thanks to the draft selection of Anthony Randolph

Brandon Wright is irrelevant because he is hurt. There is no way to know who’s going to get hurt and who isn’t, that couldn’t be helped. A healthy Wright, right now, would be getting a ton of PT. We need big man depth, and he is a young, productive big man with tons of upside. That is a good thing. Also, JRich has scored 20+ ppg once in the last 4 years (counting this year), because he was on the Bobcast and they had no other offensive options. He’s not an impact player on offense, and his skill (mostly shooting) we have in excess.

Since June 2007, the Warriors have lost Baron Davis, Jason Richardson, Al Harrington, Stephen Jackson, Jamaal Crawford, Mickael Pietrus, Matt Barnes and Marco Belinelli. And in return they’ve received…. what exactly?

A lot of flexibility for the future? Not being weighed down by terrible long term contracts to old players that aren’t the future? Have you ever wondered how a team like the Suns doesn’t end up with Joe Johnson? It’s because they have so much of their money tied up already when it’s his turn to get paid. That could have been us with Randolph, or Morrow, or Curry, or Wright…sometimes it takes some planning to make sure the future doesn’t suck.

Think of what they could have done with those players, the games they potentially could have won. Think of who they could have at least traded them for. With all that talent they could have at least gone out and gotten Chris Bosh or Amar’e Stoudemire or ANYONE. Instead, they’ve practically given them away.

False. Nobody in the league would want to trade for Baron Davis right now, unless it was for an equally bad or worse player/contract combination. Signing guys to long term, over priced contracts makes them unattractive as trading chips. Trading in the NBA is about a lot more than current talent – teams do actually plan for the future in trades, and do take guaranteed contract status into consideration.

They play for the future, they rebuild

Yes, planning for the future is good. It’s how you avoid getting into terrible situations down the road for small gains now.

You know why the Boston Celtics are the best team in the NBA? It’s because they dumped that mentality in June 2007 — right around the time the Warriors started to collapse. The Celtics actually took the initative and did something daring. They traded more than half of their team and all of their current draft picks to the Sonics and Timberwolves for Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett. And what did they get out of it? Rings baby.

Well, they only won once as of now. We also were making every effort to get KG, so I’m not sure what’s so different about the Warriors and Celtics in that regard, other than we didn’t have the pieces the Wolves wanted as much as they did? Not to mention the fact that McHale did his best to gift wrap it for the Celtics? Also, as far as I can tell, they’ve once won one ring, unless the plural comes from having more than 1 player on the team, I guess…?

This is a team so loaded with talent at the guard position that on Saturday’s game against the Bucks, Don Nelson actually played Corey Maggette at center down the stretch. If Danny Ainge were running this team, I guarantee you the first thing he’d do is he’d trade half of those guards and most of the centers and he’d get a real bigman, someone like Bosh or Stoudemire or even an Al Jefferson. Would Larry Riley do it? Nah. Wright and Biedrins and Randoplh are going to be great. Don’t you worry.

First, why do you think Maggette was playing C? Could it be because 3 of our 4 big men were hurt? How were we supposed to forsee not just a rash of injuries at the same time, but all to the same position? It could have just as easily happened to our wings, and all of a sudden we wouldn’t look so loaded at wing. So what? Second, Biedrins is better than Al Jefferson. Al Jefferson is just not that good. Bosh and Amare are good, sure, but what happens when they walk next year and we’re left with exactly what you’ve been complaining about – nothing?

Step 1 in winning a championship is having a superstar that you can build around — Baron was that player and they let him go

Have you seen Baron’s work down in LA? That’s not exactly superstar play. In fact, it’s closer to the other end of the spectrum.

The saddest part is that there are leaders like that available for trade at this very second, but the Warriors would never make it

Like who? Guys who are free agents next year? Cool, that leaves us with nothing after this season. Plus, give me good players, I’ll take talent over “leadership” any day.

Until they drop that mentality, and until they actually try to do something in the present, there is no future for the Golden State Warriors.

Really? We have Biedrins, Ellis, Randolph, Curry, Morrow, Azubuike…all of them are 24 or younger (except 26 year old Buike), we can keep them around for a while, that looks like a future to me. A lot more of a future than one that involves giving up all our talent for a one year rental and being left with nothing after the year. Long term planning is good. For once, we actually have some semblance of a long term plan in place.