while this season has been awful and plagued by injuries...
Monta has emerged as a superstar and should be an all star
Curry continues to improve and is in the running for ROY
and hopefully it nellie's last year
and even if we dont trade maggette, we will have some money this offseason. which is partly why this season sucked so bad cuz they traded for so many injured expiring players.
lets go in order here again.
monta a superstar? he's gotta be a all star first. hes not even close to a house hold name that defines a superstar.
curry has zero shot at ROY. its a 2 man race with evans and jennings and evans is far ahead.
nellies last year? he is still under contract for one more season at $6 million. so unless the warriors wanna bite the bullet and eat $6 mill then hire another coach for around another million or 2. nelson aint going anywhere. unless he somehow takes it upon himself to walk away from that money or role. and u aint screwing nellie out of millions (see mark cuban).
and cap space?:
Golden State: Oh lord. No matter what, Warriors fans cannot expect to have the space to make a splash in the 2010 free agent pool if the current roster comes even close to staying in its current state. This has stayed true even after Stephen Jackson was effectively dumped for expirings, since Monta and Biedrins combine to make $20 million and Maggette will make over $9M all by himself. Depending on what management wants to do, the Warriors can dramatically affect the market for other teams thanks to over $10 million in expiring contracts (Speedy Claxton, Raja Bell, and Devean George). Adding some long-term salary in exchange for talent and picks could both make this team better and make another franchise into legit 2010 free agent contenders.
• Projected 2010 Salary [Ellis, Biedrins, Maggette, Ronny Turiaf, Stephen Curry, Brandan Wright, Anthony Randolph, Anthony Morrow’s qualifying offer, Kelenna Azubuike’s player option, and Vladimir Radmanovic’s player option]:
• Projected cap room: $2.5M
unless we do something we are looking at around 2.5 mill, there is always room for trades tho.