After already punishing him by suspending him for 30 games or w/e was totally unethical, and almost illegal.

Regardless of weather or not you liked his original punishment, or wanting to protect the possibility of chaining a big contract to the team if he gets permanently injured, it’s essentially double jeopardy holding him and saying that we can punish him again for something he was already punished for.

I’m happy he’s free of this burden and we can move on to summer league/next season with high hopes in a young, up and coming, team…rather than this shadow following one of our key pieces.

Sucks to be Golden Boy.

There is a reason why double jeopardy is illegal in our society.

The future of the NBA will be shorter, non-guaranteed contracts.

Hopefully there won’t be a lockout. A lot of big money has been secured in the last 2 years, and MUCH more will be locked up before 2010. These players will want their $$$.

If what we read is true then we are going to be active in the market this off season. We need to be a place players want to come and mistreating Monta was not in our best interest. Plus in every industry happy employees is a good thing.

so…of course, I’m happy GS relinquished the right to void his contract. As much I hate the fact that the moped incident made this season such a disaster, Monta is the only best player we have as of now (AR is just a rookie, so he doesn’t count), and let’s just allow the organization and Monta to let bygones be bygones.

Let’s all move on now.

How on earth can you criticize Monta’s lack of defense without pointing out that he plays for a coach who doesn’t care about defense, who doesn’t force his starters to play defense?

Monta does need to learn how to play defense. He needs to be held responsible for not putting out effort on that end of the court.

But Nellie doesn’t do that with his favorites.

  What? Nellie was the one crashing his moped? Nellie was the liar? Way to pass the blame there. Are you Montay’s agent in drag?
  I don’t know why they felt it necessary to post a statement that voiding was off the table, why not just let it sit? Montay’s a big boy now , he can deal with the truth, if not he knows where the door is.

monta played well before he went down (again), and that’s what we like to focus on. we may monta a lot of money. and we want him to play well. like it or not, him being happy has a lot to do with it, and this was a necessary move to do so.

that is, the warriors really had TWO choices this offseason:
1) relinquish their right to void Monta’s contract
2) go through the legal mess of actually voiding it

anything else (like NOT voiding it and holding onto their right) would be plain stupid, hurting our team through next year.

so for now, i think they did the right thing. we can revisit that statement if monta pulls a baron davis and becomes injury prone (knock on wood).

and then theyll take away time from randolph, whose olviously gonna be pretty good real soon. (averages 14 and 10 in april)

so if we trade for anyone id trade for a veteran PG like andre miller or jarret jack

They are the same age, but I think Artest has lost his most valuable asset – defense. Odom is a better rebounder, passer and shoots a higher percentege.

I’ve been able to fully cheer for the Warriors these past couple weeks because Ellis hasn’t been playing. I’m going to have mixed emotions next season whenever the Warriors play. Now I know how people who like the Giants but hate Barry Bonds felt. If it were up to me, I’d trade Monta Ellis for Kevin Martin.

Yeah, Monta deserves all the hate he gets. He’s been childish and at the same time he’s taken his whipping. (I don’t remember ever getting whooped by my mom and liking her immediately afterward.) But Nellie’s whole philosophy and handling of the Warriors’ lineup is absolutely atrocious. The dude does not have any viable plan as far as development and deployment of his resources. If I were Belinelli, Wright, Randolph and even Ellis, I’d be confused about my role in the team right now. Not a one of them knows exactly where they stand with the coach and what they’re supposed to do night in and night out. How can the Dubs develop a groove under conditions like that? How do you develop a young squad when they can barely get on the floor? Some people on the team have a long leash (Jackson), others don’t (Randolph). Does that make sense?

If this is true and the warriors only “just” issued the statement that they won’t be voiding Monta’s contract….then is this the first item from the lips of Robert Rowell that may prove to have been less than accurate during the 8th of April meeting? He told me and others in that meeting a statement that was "absolutely not, it’s in the past, the contract is not going to be voided and anyone who suggests otherwise is simply talking hot air, it’s NEVER going to happen, it was an extremely unfortunate event, but it is in the past, over." He stated that Monta and his agent knew this already.

If they in fact had not had any such discussion, what the hell was he doing telling Season Ticket holders what he did? Maybe a more professional and honest response would have been “we will be having a meeting soon on that, unfortunately it would be unprofessional for me to say what the outcome of that will be, but we expect everyone to be very happy”.

Or maybe the article written here caused a flurry of phone calls between Ellis’s agent and the organisation saying “so you told season ticket holders the matter was closed but you have not told my client?”

If true, that would be the most incredible communication cock-up to rest all communication cock-ups from this season and it seems the problem is at the head of the very organization.

If Robert Rowell feels he can tell people that the organization screwed them, with no answer thereafter as to what they are going to do about that and then to make a bravado statement with regards to a player’s contract……for what exactly?…..EFFECT?

Combine that with the attempt by the Press officer to change or “adjust” the statement RR made about the J-Rich trade and there is a very poor image forming. I might also add that said Press Officer also stated that he thought the article was good and well written and that they did not have any issue with any other part of content within the article. Which if I had made up the statement about telling Ellis the contract issue was over, they surely would have contested?

It is going to be VERY interesting to see what else comes to pass from that meeting and the true colours of Robert Rowell and none of that will be fabricated by media Nazi’s or blog trolls, he may very well hang himself with his own words.

Maybe the time is coming to get some of these 20,000 odd fans that pack the arena to protest at Oracle and vent their opinions on mass? Maybe someone should start a petition for Robert Rowell to resign?

Rather than answer questions, I believe the meeting held on April 8th will in fact raise more questions than answers and time is coming Mr Rowell to answer them.

From the True Hoop comments on the Wednesday Bullets linking to this post:

I would just like to say for the record that this site should not use ANY information from the Golden State of Mind website. Not only do they refuse to allow negative talk towards their team but they flat out delete any posts that are in the slightest bit negative. I live in SF and think that Monta Ellis playing 3-4 weeks of good offense does not warrant his rewards. He violated a contract and like every other potential star, he is cleared of all responsibility and rewarded. Where is the lesson here? If you violate a contract.. its ok as long as you put up offenseive numbers in a Nellie system? Monta is a poor mans Tony Parker. He can shoot a mid range jumper and drive to the hoop but forget any assists or steals.

We’re too negative and not real fans… no we’re just homers. Haha, now I’m getting confused. Which is it?

I think Monta had to humbled over this season and what transpired…He was on his way to becoming a potential top 10 player in the league to not even be thought of. I think he is going to come back harder then ever.

By vetoing this option it should give Monta full confidence in the org…he best be working extra hard to prove that he’s our man!