I like the use of the word proselytizing to immediately draw attention away from the religious reference. ;-)

he played hard. i respect him for that. wish him well wherever he ends up.

too mr. foyle, the consummate pro and true humanitarian.

foyle for governor!!!

Good luck to foyle, where ever he goes(if he goes anywhere).

he collects the shoes of those who dunked on him, lol! But for real, it's gonna be strange not seeing Foyle on the sidelines. He was a true professional, and this was really the best thing that could have happened for both sides.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_6618948

According to this article, it is assumed that we will only pay $13M of his $19M owed.  That is roughly 65% of his entire contract - others in the past (Francis, Webber, etc.) took about 80% from their ex-teams.

Gives us about $3M more a year to toss to the young lions on the team...

First off: thanks Adonal. It was fun, I think. As others said, you might've stunk, but you played hard and it wasn't your fault Mully gave you roughly 3 or 4 times your deserved salary. Also, you kind of looked like Shrek, and that pleases me.

I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode where the Critic came to visit...

Reineir Wolfcastle: The movie is just me in front of a brick wall for an hour and a half. It cost 80 million dollars.

Jay Sherman: How do you sleep at night?

RW: On a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.

Have fun with your pile, Adonal. Adios to the last of our albatrosses.

that is what will happen someday, right? we're moving beyond simple text for graves--everyone will have a collection of videos, songs,etc.- multimedia!

seriously, that video brought a tear to my eye-- we won that game right?! adonal (at least according to a video that showed all his highlights) was a key factor in that game. a lot of people would've asked to have been taken out of the game after being dunked on the third time, but he was humble enough to keep hustling. i think this is one instance (maybe the only one)where his character helped the warriors win. in fact it was amare who lost his cool by pushing jrich out.

let arnold change the constitution so eventually adonal can be president! and he could be a future poet laureate of our country- see his webpage.

how dare people say he doesn't have skills

For my hero project this year I wrote about Foyle :

"WE WANT FOYLE! WE WANT FOYLE! WE WANT FOYLE!" 20,000 fans yell at the Oracle Arena during Game 6 of the NBA Playoffs, the Golden State Warriors vs. the favorites to win the Finals Dallas Mavericks. The Warriors are winning the series 3-2, and there are less than 2 minutes left in the game, and it is clear the Warriors are moving on the next round. Right now, it's garbage time for the players, all the players who don't play often get their shots in right now. The crowd demands Adonal Foyle. Foyle is in his 9th year at the NBA level, and has been a Warrior his whole career. This is his first NBA playoff experience. Despite being a starter for the previous two years on a mediocre Golden State team, and being demoted under new coach Don Nelson, the fans love Foyle. When Foyle strips off his white and blue warm ups and checks into the game, the crowd goes nuts and you can barely hear the buzzer signifying that Foyle can check in. The crowd now can go home pleased, the Warriors are going on to the next round, and they got to see the legendary Foyle play. Through analytical fans of the game, he is know as an overpaid back up center who's only skill is on the defensive end. The Warriors fans know better though, than to judge him only on his playing skills.

Adonal Foyle was born on March 9, 1975 on the island of Canouan, in the country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. For 15 years, Foyle lived with his grandmother and great-aunt in a house with an indoor bathroom and an outdoor kitchen with no electricity. Foyle was raised as a working boy, not going to school, doing his work gardening peanuts and doing chores around the house. At age 15, Adonal Foyle first started playing basketball. That same year, in the summer, Dr. Jay and Joan Mandle, both professors at Colgate University (Jay Mandle is the professor of economics at Colgate, and Joan Mandle is the professor emeritus of sociology at Colgate) were in the Caribbean Island of Canouan and were refereeing a game of pick up basketball. While watching and officiating the game, they were immensely impressed by Adonal Foyle's raw basketball skills and height.

After speaking to Foyle, the Mandles found out that Foyle was not only a great basketball player, but he was incredibly smart and had a high level of intellect. Eventually, the Mandles offered Foyle the opportunity to go to the United States with them to compete for a basketball scholarship as well as being adopted by the Mandles. When Foyle agreed, he went straight to high school in the United States for two years. At the end of his high school career, he was offered a scholarship by almost every major college basketball powerhouse. (Kansas, Duke, University of North Carolina, UCLA etc.) Foyle ended up making his decision not by the basketball program, but by choosing the school were he could learn the most. He ended up choosing Colgate University, were the Mandles both taught classes, a school not known for its Collegiate basketball program.
During his time at Colgate, Foyle set the NCAA all time shot blocking record as well as the all time shot blocking record for a season. During his final year, his junior year, he led the nation in points and rebounds and entered his name for the NBA draft. In the summer of 1997, he was picked by the Golden State Warriors and was bought in to be a contributor for the Warriors. Sadly, Foyle never produced as well as expected, and Foyle was part of many horrendous Warriors teams.

Throughout his career as a player, Foyle has made himself well known for his work off the court and once received the prestigious Change Agent Award, an award given by the Greenlining Institute (a Berkley based non profit organization for advocacy, public policy, and research whose mission statement is "works to improve the quality of life for low-income and minority communities.") for his commitment to campaign finance reform for his work in his nonpartisan, nonprofit group, Democracy Matters. Twice, the NBA has given Foyle recognition for his work off the court by giving him the "Community Assist Award." In 2005, when the great Tsunami in Indonesia, India, and Thailand hit Sri Lanka (Foyle's girlfriend's home) Foyle set up an auction for a complete dinner, tour, and visit of Foyle's home for in which all the proceeds would go to the Kerosene Lamp Foundation. (the Kerosene Lamp Foundation helps promote the values of healthy living and a good education in the United States and the Eastern Caribbean. The Kerosene Lamp Foundation was formed by Foyle) as well as other charities that were for the recovery of Sri Lanka.

During 2001, Foyle, with the help of his father, Dr. Jay Mandle, formed his non profit political organization, Democracy Matters. Democracy Matters is devoted to organizing college students around campaign reform. Democracy Matters now has 84 chapters across the country in college campuses, all of which are devoted to trying to get people to support Clean Elections. Clean Elections, are elections where the campaign funding is paid for by the public. This way it gives any citizen a good chance of being elected regardless of whether they have friends in the industry who are willing to shell out big bucks to them. Often times, with many corrupt politicians, the private financers will tell the candidate what he has to say or else he will lose funding. This is exactly what Democracy Matters is trying to stop, which is a big step to making elections a fair choice for not only the candidates, but voters as well and leaving the financer's money vote out of the elections. Here is a quote from one Foyle's speeches; So What Does NBA Basketball Have To Do With Campaign Finance Anyway?

I founded Democracy Matters to give students a voice in the growing movement on campaign finance reform. I believe for this movement to be successful we need the creativity, enthusiasm, and presence of students.
Now let's look at what NBA basketball has to do with campaign finance reform.
There is no buying your way into the NBA with money. You are good enough or not; and that is the bottom line. The same holds true once you are in the league. As veteran athletes, we never have the security of resting on our laurels. At any point in our career, we can lose our job to a younger or superior player. To stay in the NBA, players like myself need to improve and find ways to continue to compete - and win -- against serious challengers.
In my case, this means that even during the off season you will find me doing everything from running several miles a day, going to a big man's camp to work on my offensive moves, or finding a league where I can play against players who will challenge me to get better. Incumbent players may have a slight advantage because they are more experienced and understand better how the system works. But despite the fact that rookies are prone to the blunders of inexperience, it is their talent -- not money or connections -- that will determine whether they unseat an incumbent for a spot on a team. The opportunity to bring performance to the table and be judged solely on that basis represents the ideal of justice an ideal that is approximated in the world of professional basketball.
A player who has the ability to make it to the NBA can come from anywhere. I myself was raised on a tiny island in the Caribbean with a population of about five hundred people. There I did not even have the luxury of watching basketball on TV, because we had no electricity. My idea of professional sports was spending a week listening to a cricket match on a small transistor radio. I had never seen or touched a basketball until I moved to a nearby island to go to high school when I was fifteen. When I finally discovered basketball, none of my friends or I could afford to buy sneakers or even a ball. We played barefoot, moving as quickly as we could so that the sun did not roast our feet on the hot concrete court. When we were able to find someone with a ball, we had to be really careful not to call a foul on the owner, because if we did, he would get mad and take his ball and go home.
The only criterion for entrance is athletic prowess. So long as he or she is deemed able to play at the highest level, they will get that chance.
In very much the same way, politics should give all of our gifted and talented citizens an equal chance to compete to serve in political life. They must be given this opportunity without the interference of wealth or connections, but on the basis of their talents. Incumbents too should face real challenges. Elected politicians must be able to stay in office if and only if they are more in tune with the needs of their constituencies and if they continue to demonstrate that they are on the cutting edge of political creativity. Their re-election should not be determined by the fact that they have access to more money and connections than their challengers.

When you think of Adonal Foyle's life, his story is truly unique. He was living in poverty for 15 years and happened to be adopted by two American professors who were able to give him a chance to make a living playing basketball in America. He was offered to play for the best basketball universities in the country, but he passed it up to be a student at a college known for its academic success, Colgate. Since being drafted by the Warriors almost 10 years ago, Foyle has been one of the most politically active basketball players in the history of the NBA and has done much to help improve the community. Foyle views his career as a basketball player as not only an opportunity to do what he loves, but to make a voice for himself and be a role model for many, and a hero for me. Why do I consider him a hero? He fights for what he believes in, he gives lots of money to charity, and works for the common people. Although he isn't the star of any basketball team, looking at him roam the bench, hearing the famous, "WE WANT FOYLE!" makes me happy knowing that fans can appreciate such a great person and not judge him off his basketball talent, but for who he is, and what he does.

As an NBA player, my responsibility is not only to try to do my job on the court or to be a good citizen in the world of basketball. I am involved in the union as the player representative for my team, because I believe that player's rights should not be violated by powerful owners. Whether or not, as professional athletes, we consider ourselves to be role models, the fact is that what we do as is observed closely by the society at large. I believe that we have a moral responsibility to help to bring awareness of injustice to the public and to help correct it. That's why I am involved in the movement for campaign finance reform - why I think that public financing campaign reform is vital to democracy. Democracy Matters, in particular, can help repair our political system by bringing young people together to fight the corrupting effect of private money in politics.

Adonal Foyle

Adonal holds the Warrior record for most blocked shots (1,090).

Is it just me, or does Amare travel--twice--going to the rim for that dunk starting ~2:25?

Then again, this is the NBA...

If this is posted somewhere else I apologize.  Marcus Thompson II wrote an article this morning in the CC Times detailing the terms, which are suprizingly good for Warriors:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/warriors/ci_6619207?nclick_check=1

As usual, it looks like Adonal took the high road by taking a significant cut from over 19mil to 13.  You'll see from the article it saves the team a lot of money in year one and two.

Again, I'm surprised this isn't posted somewhere but if it is I missed it.  So enjoy.....

Chanting we want Kosta just does not have the same ring to it.  In all seriousness Im sad to see the man go, not sad to see the contract disappear(kinda).  Good luck to Adonal, Democracy, and reading throughout the world.

I might have to change my username

he might be a nice guy, but this buyout is the biggest contribution the guy has ever made to the Warriors being a winning franchise. That contract was one of the worst in the history of the NBA. He should pay a bunch of it back. He should feel awful for signing it in the first place. He certainly didn't deserve it. The only reason they could never get rid of him is because of that was an unmovable hideously bad contract. Just look at the numbers. This guy couldn't play for shit. The Warriors will be so much better without him. Addition by subtraction.