according to yahoo and its sources, the clippers are trying hard to sign baron davis.

Sources: Clippers pursuing Davis

this is worse news to an already sad day. one eastern conference gm in the article is quoted as saying that hes already got to have a deal somewhere to opt out of his contract, which is even more disheartening. I wonder where he's gonna go now...

Davis’ decision stunned league executives and agents late Monday.

“He has to have some kind of a deal somewhere,” an Eastern Conference general manager said. “You just don’t opt out of that kind of money.”

Davis’ career had been reborn under Don Nelson’s small ball, but acrimony over contract talks have cooled the relationship between the Warriors and him. What’s more, Davis could be facilitating a sign-and-trade between Golden State and Los Angeles, or elsewhere.

The possibility of bringing Davis to the Clippers promises to be a major incentive in re-signing their own free agent, forward Elton Brand.

whoa, the warriors just signed former maverick DJ Mbenga and waived Stephane Lasme

The Golden State Warriors have signed free agent center DJ Mbenga to a contract, and waived forward Stephane Lasme, it was announced today by Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations, Chris Mullin. Per team policy, terms of the agreement were not announced.

Mbenga (Ben-ga), 27, was not drafted by an NBA team, but was signed as a free agent by the Dallas Mavericks prior to the 2004-05 season.

Mbenga will join the Warriors in New York on Monday and will wear uniform # 28.

Lasme, 24, was selected by the Warriors in the second round of the 2007 NBA Draft (46th overall). He appeared in one regular season game (11/8 vs. Dallas) and did not register a stat line. The 6'8" native of Gabon, Africa appeared in four preseason games with Golden State, averaging 5.0 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.25 blocked shots in 16.3 minutes.

The ny daily news, not exactly the world's best news source, lists rags as a possible sleeper candidate for the yankees managerial position. Though i doubt this would actually happen, it is kind of interesting to note.

"Don Mattingly, Joe Girardi and Tony Peña remain the only official candidates for the Yankees' managerial job, but a few more names figure to surface in the coming days as the Bombers expand their search to replace Joe Torre."

"Ex-Yank Dave Righetti, the Giants' pitching coach since 2000, also reportedly has expressed interest in a managerial career, and his Yankees ties could make him an appealing candidate."

source: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2007/10/21/2007-10-21_tony_la_russa_likely_to_sta y_with_cardin.html

The fate of 756 has been revealed.

The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, its owner said Wednesday.

Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball's fate, and the decision to brand it won out over the other options, sending it to the museum unblemished or launching it into space.

and what does cooperstown think of this?

"We're happy to get it," he said. "We're a nonprofit history museum, so this ball wouldn't be coming to Cooperstown without Marc Ecko buying it from the fan who caught it."

seems like they couldnt care less about there being an asterisk on the ball.

DESHAWN STEVENSON STAYS WITH WIZARDS

Unrestricted free agent DeShawn Stevenson and the Washington Wizards have agreed on a contract to keep the shooting guard with the club.

The team wouldn't disclose the terms of the deal, but it's reportedly worth $15 million over four years.

LINK: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/07/14/bc.bkn.wizards.stevenson.ap/index.html?er ef=si_topstories

JOE SMITH TO THE BULLS- From azw

League sources confirmed the Bulls reached agreement on a two-year contract with Joe Smith late Friday, the veteran forward who had been their No. 1 target in free agency. LINK: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/cs-070713bulls,1,2115841.story?coll=cs-bulls-headlines

MO WILLIAMS STAYS WITH BUCKS- From warriordean and J Rich 4 MVP
Mo Williams will be returning to the Milwaukee Bucks after agreeing in principle to a six-year, $52 million contract, ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan has learned. LINK: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2936550

JAMAAL MAGLOIRE TO NETS- From warriordean
A day after losing center Mikki Moore to free agency, the New Jersey Nets reached an agreement in principle with former All Star Jamaal Magloire on Saturday. The deal is contingent on Magloire passing a physical. Contract terms were not immediately available. LINK: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2936613

Apparently Baron Davis' agent and the Warriors are already talking about a contract extension.

QBaron Davis' agent, Todd Ramasar, said he's had initial discussions with vice president Chris Mullin regarding a contract extension for the point guard. Davis is signed for another two years at a total of $37.8 million, but can opt out after next season. "It's in a good place," said Ramasar, who declined to go into specifics. Davis is in France attending the wedding extravaganza of Spurs guard Tony Parker and actress Eva Longoria, and is expected to return to his offseason home in Las Vegas next week.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/07/SPG95QSQSH1.DTL

its at the bottom

Poll

Baron Davis Contract Extension?

56%

YEAH!

22 votes

43%

Naw

17 votes

39 votes | Poll has closed

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Still bitter after being "severely power owned" by the warriors, mavs fans apparently think that sjax is a thug and baron davis milks his injuries.

http://www.dallasbasketball.com/home_display.asp

some mavs fans congratulated the dubs for their win, and i commend them for that. yet,some of them are idiots and think that the mavericks beat themselves. that completely explains the warriors winning 8 of the last 10 games against the mavericks

this is a pretty interesting article by Jack McCallum. He compares each of the teams in the playoffs to a democratic presidential candidate

Dallas Mavericks=Hillary Clinton

The target everyone was gunning for from the beginning. No-nonsense and business-like, both candidate and team have a strong male figure behind the throne, one named Bill, one named Mark. As with Hillary, it was the Mavs' to lose ... and they just might lose it.

Golden State Warriors=Mike Gravel

Unorthodox and even a little scary, both are trying to overcome the odds with offense.

Cool, the warriors can knock of Hillary, she was against grand theft auto, and i love my grand theft auto. on an interesting note, the Pistons are Barack Obama Link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jack_mccallum/05/01/playoffs.politics/index.html

i dont know if you all saw this but i just saw it today and thought it was pretty cool. it was in friday edition of the san jose mercury news.

pretty awesome. his beard is pretty distinct and he should definitely not shave or trim it at all. then theyd hafta print out another cutout thatll be a whole page. or maybe not as that might be illegal in the nba i dont know. david stern is like that

Caron Butler has a broken hand, basically out for the playoffs, and during the Bobcats game, Gerald Wallace went into Arenas' knee. He could be out for the playoffs as well. Not a good time to be a Warriors fan, on both sides of the United States.

He was just standing there, settling into rebounding position as Gerald Wallace drove baseline. When Wallace threw up one of those incredible, off-balance reverse layups, he crashed inadvertently into the left leg of the Washington Wizards' point guard.

Down went Agent Zero. And with him, perhaps, the Wizards' hopes of achieving much of anything in the playoffs this season.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=270404027&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Lakers at Clippers
7:30 PM PST

Kobe looks to come off and "off-game," in which he only scored 39 points. Last time these two teams met, Los Angeles (clippers) won in a "close" game, 97-88. Clipers Forward Corey Magette and Lakers Center Kwame Brown are both questionable for tonights game

Predictions:
-Kobe has another off-game, "only" scoring 46 points
-Sam Cassell complains about a foul call (hey, i gotta get one of these right)
-Elton Brand dominates the game with 20 points and 20 rebounds
-Lamar Odom and Luke Walton each put in 15 points
-Jordan Farmar, who on Sunday became the only person to play on two different teams in one day (one for the D-League's Los Angeles D-Fenders, and one for the Lakers), makes Sam cassell look like a d-leaguer with a baron-like 25 points and 18 assists
-Los Angeles wins

Poll

Who's gonna win?

21%

Clippers

4 votes

78%

Lakers

15 votes

19 votes | Poll has closed

The author, Kelly Dwyer, seems to think that the Warriors, while flawed, can and will make the playoffs, but my favorite part of all:

The Warriors are probably in line for the playoffs, which means one of the NBA's most underrated (and knowledgeable) fan bases will get a bit of well-deserved first-round action. Play-by-play man Bob Fitzgerald and analyst Jim Barnett are one of the league's best television duos, and this group has been an engaging bunch all season long.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/kelly_dwyer/03/20/observation.deck/index.html?eref=si_ topstories

does anyone know how to make kelenna azubuike in the game. I need the attributes and stuff he has. The game seems incomplete to me without him and i really want to put him in the game. I didnt know i needed 300 characters so ill just keep randomly typing. that was a great win today against the "timberkittens"

this site is for you

http://lildundun.blogspot.com/

i didnt know that there were people outside of goldenstateofmind that have such a hatred for dunleavy. this site even counts his "triple singles," games when dunleavy gets single digits of 3 statistical categories. Hes on 16 so far this season..

The Pirates have not extended a formal contract to free-agent pitcher Jeff Suppan, but they have proposed a two-year deal and are among the handful of teams still in the running for his services. The Giants are thought to be front-runners. The field also includes the Astros and, possibly, the Mets.
-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Site- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/08/22/mets.green/index.html

"Interestingly enough, the Mets are so keen on upgrading their outfield that they remain interested in star outfielder Moises Alou. News of their recent trade talks with the San Francisco Giants regarding Alou were first reported on SI.com Tuesday."

" The Mets are still eyeing Alou, who really fits their needs better than Green in that he's right-handed, although the impending acquisition of Green may slightly lessen the chances for an Alou deal. Alou is actually more desirable in that his contract expires at year's end. Alou has a .522 slugging percentage; Green is slugging .429.

However, there's a potentially big impediment to an Alou deal in that the Giants still consider themselves buyers. Should they lose a few more games and fall further out of the race, that could change, however. The Giants are currently five games out in the National League West and five games out in the wild card. The Mets have been watching the Giants' progress closely the past several days.

Like Green, Alou has veto power over trades. It isn't known whether he'd accept a trade away from the Giants, who are managed by his father, Felipe. However, the Mets would represent a significant chance for Alou to get back to the World Series."

"Alou, who turned 40 last month, is viewed as a clutch hitter who was a significant part of the Marlins' 1997 World Series championship and someone who's interested Mets GM Omar Minaya before. Alou's contract calls for him to make $6 million in 2006, with about $1.4 million remaining. He is also owed an additional $1.5 million, which had been deferred. It isn't believed the Mets would have to surrender significant pieces to acquire Alou, either."