People have been floating a lot of names around for who the Warriors should be picking up this summer via free agency or trades. We have all carefully weighed-out in our minds the Amare trade that will never happen. Recently, names such as Rasheed, Boozer, Bass have been floated around among others. Marion anyone?

The Suns want too much for Amare (Biedrins is the best contract/ position player on our team/ Curry is the straw that breaks the Thunder's back). Rasheed would be fun if we were trying to win it all now, but that is not the case. Instead, I would prefer to let Randolph start taking some threes. I would also prefer to not lead the league in techs. A one year rent-a-Boozer would be fine for a Maggette/ Wright swap, but Utah would never go for it. Bass is nice, but we would have to offer him up to the full midlevel for Dallas not to match.

I agree with the sentiments of a w00143881; our next move should be nothing, beyond cheap pickups. Resign CJ, maybe find another undrafted free agent diamond in the ruff, like we seem to be so good at, and run with our team healthy for once. The worst thing we have done over the last few years was sign or extend players to contracts that are too big/ too long (Stephen/ Corey) and losing future flexibility should We Believe 2.0 not materialize.

Keep in mind that we have some players with pretty hefty contracts signed for periods extending over the time in which most of these players will need to be resigned. Monta ($11M -> 2015), Biedrins ($10M-> 2015), S-Jaxx ($7M-> 2014), Corey (9M-> 2014), Ronny (4.5M-> 2012), & Buike (3M-> 2011).

It would also be nice to restrain from blowing our load this summer, as teams will need cap space to get players in the 2010 FA market. And lets face it, for one of the big names to come to the Warriors, we will need more cap space than others. Unless we can move some of these *cough Maggette* it might become difficult to land major talent and resign our emerging stars.

I am all for maintaining a squad that has good players with stable and reasonable contracts (Monta, Biedrins, Turiaf, Buike). Plus, we need to leave some room to resign some of our diaper dandies this summer if they continue to improve (Wright, Belli, Morrow) in two years (RANDOLPH) in three (Curry). People haven't considered that if Randolph/ Curry become as good as we all think they can be, they may do like every other budding GSW star has done when it comes time for an extension and the Warriors can't/ will not afford it: bounce (Jamison, Gilbert, Baron, Dampier j/k).

This time, lets make All-Stars out of the talent we have and pay them accordingly.

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