SB Nation User Blog: scottiepimppen

NEWS: Don't unpack your suitcase Damon Jones

scottiepimppen — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:59:04 -0000

It appears that the recently traded Damon Jones may find himself being traded...again!

Damon Jones was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday. He knows he probably won't need to unpack his suitcase.
The Bucks' backcourt is bloated with point guards Luke Ridnour, Ramon Sessions, Tyronn Lue and Charlie Bell.

"They might move me somewhere else," Jones said in a telephone interview. "I will resurrect my career again similar to what I did in Miami and Milwaukee. I'm in better shape now than I was in the last two years. I want to find someone who really believes in me." -- The News-Herald

Link to full article: http://news-herald.townnews.com/articles/2008/08/14/sports/doc48a3c273c0879460264428.txt

For those that don't remember, DJ used to be a Golden State Warrior back in 1999-2000. He didn't play much at all, so he wasn't really able to showcase his shooting ability. He has since established himself as a consistent shooter w/ a career 40% beyond the arc. I think he's on the last year of a 4-year/$16.1 million dollar contract he signed w/ the Cavs back in 2005.

Should the Warriors take a crack at trading for DJ? Who would you trade for him? Would it even be a good idea? He would definitely bring some consistent 3 pt. shooting to a team that loves to launch them more than any other team in the NBA, not to mention a veteran presence at the point w/ a number of years of playoff experience!

Just putting it out there since there hasn't been a lot going on w/ the Dubs lately. Thoughts?

NEWS: Brandan Wright is TOPPS

scottiepimppen — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:59:22 -0000

While doing some research on the soon to be released trading cards for the TV show HEROES (die-hard fan right here!), I came across this article in the TOPPS Trading Card Company website...

UNC Star Teams With Leading Sports Company

New York, NY (June 20, 2007) -- The Topps Company announced that it has signed a multi-year exclusive spokesperson deal with University of North Carolina Basketball star Brandan Wright.

I thought it was pretty interesting since Tony.psd has been working on some GSoM webpins and making them look like trading cards. This one WARRIOR will be part of a pretty exclusive group of athletes signed by TOPPS.

Wright joins Greg Oden, Dwyane Wade and baseball players David Wright, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Ryan Howard and the late Mickey Mantle as Topps exclusives.

Article Link: http://www.topps.com/sports/news/toppsNews.aspx?news_id=158

I'm not sure if this was ever brought up, so if OZ wants to delete or move this diary, it's all "G double-O D good!" Or, anyone else a HEROES fan?

REPORT/RUMOR: UDONIS HASLEM on the block???

scottiepimppen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:13:49 -0000

In today's ESPN NBA Rumor Central:

Haslem Doesn't Want To Leave

Jul 18 - With most of the big names in free agency now off the market, the Heat will likely have to pursue trades to fill its needs for depth at point guard and small forward. And Udonis Haslem's name has come up in several trade scenarios that involved the Heat.

Despite the speculation, Haslem said Tuesday he expects to be in a Heat uniform when next season opens.

"When your name comes up, you take it as a compliment, I guess," Haslem said Tuesday.

"If it's a better situation, I just have to understand the business side of it," Haslem said. "But I've done all my work here, from state title to NBA title. I want to be here, no doubt." -- Miami Herald

So reading this I automatically think of trading PIETRUS, who the HEAT have been rumored to be interested in, for HASLEM! Seems to work for both sides if the HEAT is looking for a small forward and they already showed interest in PIETRUS. I don't what HASLEM's salary is, so I wouldn't be able to go into detail about the various trade scenarios, but maybe someone who does can share their knowledge w/ the rest of us!

REPORT/RUMOR: For you IME UDOKA lovers!!!

scottiepimppen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:59:54 -0000

In today's ESPN NBA Rumor Central:

Room For Udoka?

Jul 18 - With Travis Outlaw's signing, Ime Udoka's future with the Blazers could be in jeopardy. The Blazers now have the NBA maximum 15 players under contract, which seems to mean that GM Kevin Pritchard will have to make a trade or someone will have to be cut for Udoka to fit into Portland's plans for next season.

"This kind of raises the question: 'Hey, what about Ime?' " said Erin Cowan, Udoka's agent. "That's the story line. Hey, what about Ime? And to be honest, I don't know. But you know what? It's not our decision. That's (the Blazers') decision. The ball has always been in their court."

Cowan said there are multiple teams that have expressed interest in Udoka, but he would not confirm or deny that one of them is San Antonio, as has been rumored. -- The Oregonian

Just wanted to share what I found! I don't know much about him, but a bunch of GSoM members have expressed their interest in this guy.

PLAYOFF POLL

scottiepimppen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:55:34 -0000

Hmmm...I wonder who those 19% were that didn't think the WARRIORS would make the PLAYOFFS?! =P

Sorry, I just had to post a diary or else my post would never been seen!

And I wonder how many of those 19% are gonna purchase PLAYOFFS tickets?! You guys wanna get on the W's BANDWAGON now?

Keep hating! It just makes the WARRIORS NATION grow bigger, closer and LOUDER!!!

ESPN SUCKS!!!

scottiepimppen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:24:15 -0000

This has got to be the BIGGEST news in the NBA, but ESPN reports the WARRIORS 1st PLAYOFF appearance in 13 years as just another NBA game!!!

I just watched the telecast of ESPN SPORTSCENTER and they just showed the highlights from the game just like a regular season win or something and not one of the greatest finishes from a team that has missed the PLAYOFFS for a record 12 seasons! I don't want their love, but at least their respect for our beloved W's for finally making it into the PLAYOFFS!!!

I guess this is only BIG news to the people in the WARRIORS NATION and GSoM!!! I ain't trippin though, the W's will make a lot of noise in the PLAYOFFS...if not the players, I sure know the WARRIORS FANS will! ORACLE ROCKS!!!

BARON FEVER...

scottiepimppen — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:18:54 -0000

is a good way to describe what's been sweeping WARRIORS NATION recently!

BARON has definitely stepped up his game, not only as a player, but now as a leader! I remember when we were trying to figure out who our "go-to" guy was before, whether it was BARON or JRICH. It seems that we now know!

All I know is that I think I have it and in this case, I hope it's contagious...BARON FEVER!!!

By Garret Wilson
Hoopworld.com
March 20, 2007

Quite simply, Baron Fever is infectious. All the Warriors are feeding off of Boom Dizzle's renewed competitive fire. Even though Davis is averaging a full ten minutes less per game than before his injury, his mere presence enervates his teammates. Players like Stephen Jackson and Jason Richardson can't speak highly enough of how much they enjoy having Baron around. Nor are they just spouting off media-friendly clichés. Jack and J-Rich's gushing about Davis is practically at the man-crush level.

Here is the rest of the article:

http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_21305.shtml

Sorry Pacer...

scottiepimppen — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:46:37 -0000

Fans, Team, Organization! I'm starting to feel sorry for the PACERS! After the trade I was like "Suckas...thanks for taking DUNMURPHY from us." I still feel that way, but they're totally going in the opposite direction the W's are just because of the most recent Trade: Dun, Murphy, Diogu, McLeod for Harrington, S. Jackson, Jasikevicius.

Looks like they might not make the playoffs and on top of that not even have a draft pick to show for it if they're not in the lottery! And I thought the W's were in a pickle! Looks like we're all in the same boat after the trade, but we're going up, while they're coming crashing down!

By Andrew Perna
From RealGM Indiana Pacers Front Office
19th March, 2007

Remember Al Harrington? Yeah, the guy we fawned over last summer when we acquired him for a measly 2007 first rounder. The interior presence that we were going to start alongside Jermaine O'Neal, the former fan favorite who was going to help cure all of Indiana's recent public relations blunders. Well, if you didn't know he's in Golden State now. The Harrington-O'Neal experiment failed, even faster than the Artest-O'Neal pairing, and now all the Pacers have to show for it are two of the league's worst contracts (Sorry, Mike and Troy).

They're finally starting to admit that it wasn't that good of a trade after all!

Here's the rest of the article:

http://pacers.realgm.com/articles/113/20070319/coming_up_blank/

GO WARRIORS!!!

WHO NEEDS YI...

scottiepimppen — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:43:30 -0000

when we have PEROVIC! There's been a KOSTA PEROVIC sighting, in Europe of course, and he seems to have developed quite well since the W's drafted him.

By Janny Hu
From SFChronicle

Perovic, a 22-year-old center from Serbia, is currently putting up impressive numbers for BC Partizan Belgrade in the Euroleague playoffs, which is entering its sixth and final week of Top 16 play.

The 7-foot-2, 240-pounder is averaging 11.2 points and 6.3 rebounds in 28 minutes per game after posting similar numbers for his club team in the Adriatic League.

Perovic's standout performance came two weeks ago when he posted 19 points and 11 rebounds in a loss to Greek powerhouse Olympiacos.

Okay, so Yi might actually be better, but should we really draft another soft 7-footer, or trade the pick and look for a veteran in trade or free agency for our young team, or draft a player in another position?

Just thought I'd share this article w/ you all since I totally forgot about this guy myself!

Here's the full article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/19/SPGRNONMG21.DTL

GO WARRIORS!!!

STILL NO LOVE

scottiepimppen — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:25:03 -0000

by Garrett Wilson
from Hoopsworld.com

Finally, the Warriors are healthy again. And just in time, too. For a minute there, it looked as if Golden State wasn't going to make that last little surge that makes all the Warrior fans think they have a chance even though we all know they don't. Now we all get to have our hearts broken good and proper.

Man, after 2 convincing wins, we still can't buy any love! I think the fact that we do have a healthy roster for once, gives us all the hope we need for the playoff push!

So far the W's have shown a lot of life and EFFORT, which I always speak highly of, in the past 2 games. It's just a matter of continuing that and going out there and winning some ball games, especially against our conference opponents like tonight!

Here's a link to the rest of the article:

http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_21147.shtml

GO WARRIORS!!!

"If you build around them...they will come!"