Well, we just signed a Mikki Moore to a one year vet min deal.  That, coupled with CJ Watson taking the one year QO deal, brings our roster to the official 15 man max; all of whom have guaranteed contracts.  

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Who do you want to see bring the Warriors into the playoffs.  I personally would love it if this ended up being the starting line-up:

Monta
Jackson
Randolph
Wright
Biedrins

and coming off the bench (in order of importance)

Maggette
Williams
PF to be named
Turiaf

I'm just excited at the potential of the starting line-up.  Randolph has a great future ahead of him and can be the ball handler needed to supplement Monta's skills while Wright & Beans turn into a rebounding tandem that should be able to defend the rim while spacing out the floor with Beans' pick & cut abilities and Wright's "Antawn Jamison" like offensive game.

As for Maggette, he's just the odd man out (he may be in the starting five should Jackson not resign w/ the W's).  He can score and would be a great 6th man.  This is conceivably a team that could do great things....

Well well... we are in the midst of a complete overhaul of talent.  The only players remaining from our famed playoff team are Monta Ellis, Andris Biedrins, Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington... and that was only 14 months ago.  To say things are different is an understatement.  Fortunately, we have a plethora of young talent to take us into the new decade.

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He's currently being offered, and considering, a 3 year deal @ $20 mil.  Ok... now before I get into my rant... let's look at this guy's numbers (last year's and his career) 

Last year:  12 ppg, 5 rpg, 1.5 apg, 1 spg, 1.3 to's, 57% fg, 80% ft @ 30 mpg
Career:  11 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 2 apg, 1 spg, 1.4 to's, 52% fg, 80% ft @ 31 mpg

Beyond these numbers, he was a very high basketball IQ player who predominately made the correct decision to put his team in a winning situation.  He doesn't chuck up the three very much (less than one attempt per game @ 36% over his career) but he is a very good ball handler with good defensive instincts and a fro like no other's today.  Now I know that the tax situation do factor into this equation, so let's just say he's getting the equivalent of $7.5 mil/yr (taxes are a bitc....), do you think that he would be worth a 3 year contract @ $8 mil/yr?  I certainly think that he would fit in with the Warriors at the SF spot fairly well.  Now whether the Hawks would match or not would be a moot point, because our chance has passed... and we all know what Maggette can do.

Now... the question is would you rather see Maggette get his 5 yr $50 mil deal or see Childress get a 3 yr $25 mil deal (just rounding up)? 

Now I strongly believe this to be much more realistic than some (well most) of the trade ideas that have been thrown around, but that wouldn't really be saying much... you've read those posts! Now please keep in mind that I'm going to estimate most of the numbers to the nearest million, with a couple of exceptions.

Now let's just say that the NBA salary cap will be somewhere around $58 mil and the luxury tax cap will be around $70 mil (based on the projected increase in revenue, as both caps are based on a % of overall revenue). Please keep in mind that both caps are "soft caps" meaning that teams would be able to exceed the caps. Well the Warriors' team salary is currently at $47 mil, which includes the contracts of Baron Davis, Brandan Wright, Al Harrington, Stephen Jackson, Marco Belinelli and the dead contract of Adonal Foyle. So as of right now, we are approximately $11 mil under the salary cap and $23 mil under to luxury tax cap.

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Another year has passed.  We are now one year removed from the ultimate fan high from the Warriors epic playoff run last year.  Who knows... one Tracy McGrady 4th quarter heroic performance in game 7 and we may have been in the conference finals...  We owned Houston as much as we owned the Mavericks.  One less foul from Robert Horry and there could have been an upset in the conference finals... we did match up well against Phoenix.  This would be en route to running the Cleveland Cavaliers out of the championship picture.  Maybe we keep Jason Richardson and play the playoff team one full season healthy.  I know why they made the trade... it was smart financially (getting Richardson's contract off of the books) and potentially for the future (Wright plays like a beast when he gets the time).  Or maybe... we get the dream trade of KG and salary dumps for Wright, Biedrins, Harrington and a slew of picks... banking on a chance to win within the next two seasons.  Maybe we trade Baron this season... there's been a lot of talk about that.  We can start building for the future again.  Everyone talking all this mumbo jumbo about what if's or trade possibilities just remember this:  We are only two years removed from having a below average team... and it took 13 years of rebuilding to get to the playoffs... the longest streak ever for any team in any sport.  We just had a 48 win season, the most since 1994.  Do you really want to go through years of mediocrity to rebuild this team again?