The Warriors have to pay players more to play here. Al's willing to take $57 million to play for the Pacers, but he wants $65 million to play for the Warriors.
  That's why we paid so much for all our big contract guys. If they had left, who would come and for how much ?

I believe the difference in salary prices is due to Indiana having a 7.5 mil exception.

No, Mullin hasn't learned his lesson and I suspect more and more that he has very little vision in what he's doing.  Harrington is an average player, no more, and has already shown that he doesn't improve the lot of a bad team.  I realize that it's not entirely fair to blame him for the fate of the Hawks, but for two years he's been there he's shown if he's not part of the problem, neither is he part of the solution.  

Mullin's got to go and he's got to go now before he mortgages the future cap space with yet another overpaid player who is adequate at best.

I just hope this is part of some plan.  You know, a plan that actually works, for once.

I've been reading it for months (since back in the days of the old domain) and I must say I'm truly amazed that you continue to pump out such great content about such a depressing subject :)

I'm feeling the urge to comment here for the first time because I just created a new portal for tracking Warriors' news and naturally I included your blog's feed on it.  It's a publicly editable portal (think Wikipedia on HGH) so anyone can contribute content.  Hopefully it can stir up some interest in W's fans and get your blog a few more clicks.  Here's the URL: http://www.zimbio.com/portal/Golden+State+Warriors+Basketball

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Anyways, back on topic: if we picked up Al for $65 million, how much money would we have sunk into our 1,2 and 3? About $150 million?  Even if Mullin can find that impact big we've been lusting after for so long, we'll be too poor to sign him!

With Al at the 3 maybe we can slide into a low playoff spot for a couple of years, but at what cost?

i just wanted to give props to all the writers here at golden state of mind. i've been reading for a while now and finally decided to post something of my own. your articles are always very well written and the information you give is appreciated. now on to business, i was wondering if there is something comparable to the espn trade machine that lets you view a player's salary in regard to his stats? that way we can really gauge a player's value according to his pay. we can see if mike dunleavy (or any other player for that matter) really does earn his pay when compared to other players at his salary.

If we unload Foyle or Dunleavy's contract in this deal will it be any less bitter?  At 10-11M/year for an undersized, athletic PF/SF that's an improvement over and swap for other bloated contract(s)? Maybe.

Quote me: If Murphy goes in this 6y/65M contract for A.Harrington the GSw are the laughing stock of the West.  Not one sportswriter will pass on a chance to rip into Mullin once the wheels fall off his team and coach - December.

We're heading back to the St. Jean era with weak coaches, bloated contracts and average players.

Eventualy Cohan will hear from his East Hampton neighbor and friend, Coach Larry Brown.  Mullin and his chronies are dumbasses.  Cohan will replace Mullin with out-of-the-box thinker Rob Babcock or someother equally weak personality.  

NBA Owners hate free spending owners because they ends up in a franchise disaster like Portland or in NYC and want out after runing up salaries for everyone.  Bad franchises piss away money and hurt the NBA.

GSW are going to languish -- I bet San Jose will land an NBA franchise within 5 years. We are too big a market for this crap.

There's no way Al Harrington should garner that money. Mullin needs to calm the hell down, realize he's made some terrible stakes, and wait it out, gather draft picks and more young talent, and decide whom to re-sign over the coming years (Biedrins will probably be cheap, so might as well, Pietrus probably not so much, see how Ellis/Diogu develop) while waiting for the opportunity to finally come out from under the Foyle-Murphy-Dunleavy burden. Mullin needs to realize there are no quick fixes for this team now. No amount of money can fix that until you clean up your previous mistakes, which will take some time to do. I know that sucks, and if it were up to me Mullin may very well be fired over it, but that's probably the best case at this point. Go with what we have and hope we see some of this young talent blossom while not screwing ourselves even further for the future.

that was part of an article from http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/hawks/stories/0820nbainsider.html
on three scenarios for harrington.

bad news: tha's a horrible deal foR the warriors, harringtons not worth that

good news: neither of the other scenarios for atlanta are nearly as good, so we probably would get harrington

i dont mind losing zarko but biedrins got good talent for a 19 year old and id rather have mp2 as a back to harrington the dunleavy. beyond that, your right its bad for the cap. if we decided to tank 07 i would trade the pick for a proven veteran

very nice post zorgon are u psychic?