Posted by McK1:

Posted by TMS:



how much better is Ellis than Nate if u really think about it? is Ellis worth $11 mil per for the next 5 years when u can just re-sign Nate at half the cost?

You don't think Nate is getting 8 mill per after the season on and off the court he has had?

who would we be bidding against tho? are there teams out there that will give him that much that we would have to match? i dunno... i can maybe see a little bit over the MLE, but not by much... of course if he keeps on putting up 30 pt games the rest of the way that changes things.

Posted by Nalod:

Nellie is just trying to get fired. The guy is just playing Warriors owner for cash.

Posted by TMS:

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by Nalod:

Nellie is just trying to get fired. The guy is just playing Warriors owner for cash.

He isn't trying to get fired. He wants to get Mullin out of there. There are several dicussions out there about his mental stability and not just on internet forums, the local press have been calling for his firing as well. Nellie telling everybody he isn't going anywhere and the owner absolutely loves the old fart.

Players who have been in Donnie doghouse just the last two seasons: Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson, Monta Ellis, Al Harrington, Marco Belinelli, Brandan Wright, Marcus Williams, Corey Maggette, Anthony Randolph and now Jamal Crawford. Meanwhile, he seems to adore the player with limited ability and heap praise on that player. I suspect it is because those players remind him of himself. Much like Larry Brown, Donnie falls in love with a player; has to have that player immediately; then quickly falls out of love with said player. He is worse than Brown actually at this. His on again, off again love affair of Chris Webber still ranks as the best example.

Mullin deserves better than what Nellie has been doing to him.

Nellie's pulling a Larry Brown

Posted by McK1:

Posted by TMS:

Posted by McK1:

Posted by TMS:



how much better is Ellis than Nate if u really think about it? is Ellis worth $11 mil per for the next 5 years when u can just re-sign Nate at half the cost?

You don't think Nate is getting 8 mill per after the season on and off the court he has had?

who would we be bidding against tho? are there teams out there that will give him that much that we would have to match? i dunno... i can maybe see a little bit over the MLE, but not by much... of course if he keeps on putting up 30 pt games the rest of the way that changes things.

detroit or atlanta might.

can't rule it out but i don't think it's likely he'll garner that much on an extension in this current economy... especially when guys like Monta Ellis & Gilbert Arenas are collecting huge dollars while sitting out w/injuries... plus there's gonna be other small G's on the FA market this offseason that will garner interest around the league like Mike Bibby & Allen Iverson... Nate's gonna have to compete w/those guys for free agent contracts.

Posted by TMS:

Biedrins and Jax, yes, but if you subtract Jeffries and add one of them, you'd be ok.

i don't think so... we'll have Lee & Nate signed to about $16 mil between them... throw in Curry, Gallo & Chandler's contracts along w/Biedrins' $9 mil cap hit in 2010 & whoever we pick in this year's lottery, u don't have enough cap space left over to sign a max FA & still fill the rest of the remaining roster spots w/live bodies.

[Edited by - TMS on 03-06-2009 10:04 AM]

Posted by tkf:

that is a lot of money on the table for jamal to walk away from.. a lot of money....

Posted by Cosmic:

That team is a disaster. It's [the coach] that needs to go. [A player] ran home in protest now. They want [another player] gone after signing him to that huge contract. They're over the cap already in like 2013 LOL. [A player] wants to play or wants out. Nobody wants to be there. It's hilarious they're chock full of long term contract gunners who all want out.

Presently they are the WORST franchise out there.

Crawford gets word from Nelson
By Marcus Thompson II
Staff writer
Posted: 03/06/2009 08:38:31 PM PST


AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — According to multiple team sources, Warriors coach Don Nelson told guard Jamal Crawford that if he doesn't opt out of his contract, Golden State would trade him this offseason.

This conversation, according the one of the sources, happened a day after the Warriors' loss at the Los Angeles Clippers on Feb. 23.

Crawford said he still has not decided whether he would opt out, maintaining his focus is on "helping us win some games and finish the season strong." He has two years and just shy of $20 million remaining on his contract after this season. But he has the option to terminate his contract after this season.

"I'm not even getting into that," Crawford said before Friday's game against the Detroit Pistons. "Any conversation I have with the coaches or my teammates will remain private."

In the same conversation, Nelson informed Crawford that he would give him some games off in part to keep his statistics high, and the plan to rest his other veterans emerged in part to avoid appearing as if he were singling out Crawford.

In the past, Nelson said he had no interest in general manager duties or increased personnel say. Team president Robert Rowell, who is on the road trip with the team, said Nelson's message to Crawford does not represent management. He qualified it as Nelson being emotional. Rowell did say he isn't upset that his coach is unhappy about the team's season and wants to change things.