Harrington: G. Wallace vs. buyout - thoughts?

bwiles81 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:33:57 -0000

Everyone is talking about trading Harrington - names of players we might get in return being floated around include Gerald Wallace and Eddy Curry. I think that Turkoglu and Nate Robinson are simply not feasible - Turkoglu had the best season of his career last year and is a huge part of ORL's success, and Nate Robinson is the only player that puts people in the seats at MSG.

As for Gerald Wallace - there has been quite a bit of skepticism of him on the boards recently. However, there are several reasons why I think the Dubs should jump at the chance to get him in exchange for Harrington.

(1) Like Maggette, he gets to the foul line at will.

(2) He is a lockdown defender. We need someone to take the pressure off of Jax on the defensive end. Jax is a great defender, but it saps his energy and makes it harder to sustain his 4th quarter spurts. If Wallace were defending Rudy Gay instead of Jax we would have won both Memphis games.

(3) He has length and is an excellent rebounder and shotblocker.

(4) He would provide a role model for Wright and Randolph. Gerald Wallace is the type of player that those two should aspire to be (though Randolph has a higher ceiling because of his ballhandling and shooting skills).

(5) The man knows how to get out on the break. The focus on the Harrington situation should not be what will help us win games in the short term, but how we can make the playoffs this year and beyond. Once Monta comes back, I predict that the tempo of the team will increase significantly. Wallace would fit into our modified "Nellieball lite" attack perfectly.

HOWEVER...

There are good counterarguments to dealing for Wallace. (1) He is injury prone (though so was BD before he came here and look how that turned out), (2) he has a large contract and (3) he is slightly redundant with Wright and Randolph in the wings.

So why don't we just buy out Harrington's contract? Give him $5 or so million to walk away. He can sign with another team, and we get his contract off the books. Then we can use the money for another deal. Or, (and this would be even better) renegotiate contracts with a few of our remaining players to be more front-loaded so that our cap situation is improved in coming years.

Warriors tickets price tracker? ...and television rant

bwiles81 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:55:50 -0000

I'm splitting season tickets with my neighbor, and we are going to have a draft to pick which tickets we want. I want to choose the tickets that have the highest resale value so I can recoup the (extraordinarily high!) cost of season tickets. Does anyone know of a web site that lists historical ticket resale values? I looked on StubHub dut they don't have that feature.

On an unrelated note, how is it possible that ANY NBA game is untelevised?! I missed the Hornets preseason game, and according to the Warriors web site there are SEVERAL games that are not being televised:

http://www.nba.com/warriors/schedule/0809_broadcast_schedule.html

How does this happen?! Or are they on NBA TV and the Warriors webmaster failed to put them up?

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Harrington: G. Wallace vs. buyout - thoughts?

Warriors tickets price tracker? ...and television rant