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How do the Warriors trade Jamal Crawford?

The chances are that Jamal won't opt out. In all the Warriors interviews I've heard lately (riley, randolph, ellis), crawford's name is not even mentioned in terms of next year : he's obviously not in their plans.

The options for trades are pretty limited. He's slated to make $9.4M next year. There isn't that many players around that make within 125% of Jamal, and are on the block out there. I don't think that trading him for two players is the answer -- the warriors aready have a pretty full bench, especially with whomever they draft.

Looking at http://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm I came up with a few alternatives. None of them seem that likely.

1) Jamal for Stackhouse. This works out salarywise. A pure dump, since the W's could release him and pocket ~5M.

2) Jamal for Dalembert. Dalembert has $23.5M left for two years. The salaries work out, and Phil. are looking to trade him. Riley has said they need some "beef".

3) Jamal for Hinrich. Would fit, but not very likely from Chicago's end.Ironically, there were rumors that the W's almost traded Harrington for Hinrich, but then Hinrich hurt his hand and went out for a few months, so they traded for Craw instead.

Other possibilities are to give him to another team that is under the cap, like Denver did with the Clippers with Camby last year. Or package him with Maggette, and match some big salary, but nobody liked it when I suggested Maggette and Crawford for McGrady.

Any other suggestions? Who could be in the market for the NBA leader of 3+1 plays?

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