SB Nation User Blog: cantthinkofagoodname

Nets trade Marcus Williams to Warriors: How does this impact the decision to match Azubuike?

cantthinkofagoodname — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:25:01 -0000

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=437041

Interesting trade. The warriors get a backup point guard and New Jersey gets a future lottery protected pick. I’m wondering how much space the warriors have left under the cap. I’ve heard 4 million?? I don’t know the exact details but I wonder if this trade still allows them to match Azubuike?

Note: This isn't our marcus williams. (There, I think that covers the 75 word limit)

Fix the clips: post brand and maggette edition

cantthinkofagoodname — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:56:11 -0000

I think we’re all a little saddened to see Elton go, and to loose out on maggette too after brand left makes things worse. The real question is what do we do now?

I’m personally not a fan of the whole 2010 strategy because I think that depends on a lot of projection that these players will even be available and won’t sign extensions with their current teams. And lets not forget the biggest assumption of all, that they’ll want to play for the clippers.

What do we have:

A top center in the league, 2 young pieces in Thornton and Gordon, a leader in Baron Davis and 2 “2010” contracts in Mobley and Thomas.

Davis/knight/(Livingston)

Mobley Gordon

Thornton/Williams

Thomas/Powell

Kaman/Fazekas

First things first: pick a player to go after, preferably Josh Smith or another power forward (Emeka Okafor) without overpaying. I tend to like josh smith more because I can see baron davis getting him a lot of easy baskets. I admittedly know almost nothing about Emeka Okafor.

Second: If we cant get Josh Smith or Okafor, FRONT LOAD Baron’s contract!!!! It’ll still give him the same amount but it gives the clippers more options in the future so we’re not paying him as much when he gets into the 4th and 5th years. (if we can do that with anyone else that we sign that would be good as well) We have more cap room now than we’ll probably have a few years from now.

Next try to work out a trade to get a power forward, only a 3 year contract at most. One player we could get on the cheap would be Randolph. I don’t know what the league rules are regarding trades under the salary cap but we might not have to give up that much. If we do have to match salaries it might not be worth it… (I’m hoping this wont happen since I despise his game)

Other possibilities include rasheed Wallace, or AK47. However to get either of these guys we might have to give up a pick and maybe Gordon on Thornton. I don’t think that would be worth it.

ideas or thoughts?

Golden State reached out to Maggette, Brand visits Philadelphia

cantthinkofagoodname — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:50:24 -0000

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/03/SPV611JS76.DTL

Interesting article, Are the warriors possibly interested in a sign and trade with Maggette and Davis? Also, did anyone ever figure out if you can include other contracts in a sign and trade to make salaries work? Even without a sign and trade they can get maggette outright though because they have enough room under the cap. I guess if they are going to let baron go, they might as well get someone in return. At the very least if they don’t sign maggette to a bad contract, they have a piece they can trade away later if another point guard becomes available.

The article also goes on to state that the clippers can only offer Brand 5 years because they have to renounce Brands rights to make room for Davis. Maybe John R or CS can explain why that’s the case.I dont think we're too worried about the 76ers because they have less money to offer than the warriors and clippers right?

Eric Gordon interview on Loose Cannons

cantthinkofagoodname — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:57:49 -0000

Eric Gordon interview on Loose Cannons

Clippers sign No. 7 pick Gordon

cantthinkofagoodname — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:55:30 -0000

Clippers sign No. 7 pick Gordon

LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- The Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday signed Eric Gordon, their first-round pick in last week's NBA draft.

too many point guards

cantthinkofagoodname — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:16:37 -0000

Apparently after the draft, the wolves and grizzlies agreed to a deal that would have the grizzlies send Kevin Love, Mike Miller, Brian Cardinal and Jason Collins to Minnesota and in return they would get O.J. Mayo, Marko Jaric, Antoine Walker and Greg Buckner. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but the grizzlies already have 3 young point guards in Mike Comely, Kyle Lowry and Javaris Crittenton. Now they’re adding OJ Mayo and Marko Jaric? That’s 5 freakin point guards! (I’m counting Buckner as a slightly undersized 2).

Unless the grizzlies are counting on making trades to teams without point guards like… ummm… I don’t know, the clippers Sacramento, Miami or something, how does this deal make sense for the grizzlies? At first I thought it could be to cut salaries, but I looked and the contracts Jaric and Walker have 4 years left, and they aren’t even all that inexpensive. Cardinal only had 3 years left on his so it cant be the money.

This deal does make sense for Minnesota however because we all knew they were heavily invested for foye. And they get a shooter in Mike Miller, and a guy they really like in Kevin Love. All they have to do is take on one the bad contract of Brian Cardinal.

Now I’m curious, since the grizzlies appear so inept, what do we have that we could give up in exchange? They love their point guards so maybe they might like brevin knight for one of their young point guards. HAHAHAHA! Even that deal makes me laugh.