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it'd be funny as if S-Jax gets traded to the Cavs, then Lebron leaves next year for NY. S-Jax would then find himself in much worse situation than if he'd stayed with the Warriors, and he'd look even more of a damn fool.
He also helped us win a le. Thanks.
it'd be funny as if S-Jax gets traded to the Cavs, then Lebron leaves next year for NY. S-Jax would then find himself in much worse situation than if he'd stayed with the Warriors, and he'd look even more of a damn fool.
The contract does make a difference. He wasn't bozonuts in SA, not even a little. He was on a contract somewhere in the 700-800k range, and if he wandered off the reservation, the Spurs would have cut him. He only got bozonuts when he started making bank in Indy. Money will do that to some people.
he liked mike brown
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For Warriors, turmoil starts with the boss
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
35 minutes ago
With such imperfection, such an uneven past for Stephen Jackson(notes), the twisted sensibilities of his Golden State Warriors owner should’ve suggested Chris Cohan would develop a deep affection for his star. He showered Jax with a needless contract extension of $28 million, a captainship and ultimately the organizational manual on manipulation and petulance.
The worst owner in the NBA is seldom seen or heard, preferring to let a slobbering run of incompetence shape the face of his legacy. From front-office folly to combustible stars, Cohan has lorded over one embarrassing episode after another in his 15-year Donald Sterling-esque run as majority owner.
Captain Jack watched franchise legend and general manager Chris Mullin get pushed out of his job, and witnessed coach Don Nelson get his buddy Larry Riley the office. Jackson watched Nelson take a rich contract extension and practically give up coaching a season ago, turning over most duties to his assistants.
More From Adrian WojnarowskiArenas silences Agent Zero act – for now Oct 8, 2009 West skips second practice for Cavs Sep 29, 2009 Mostly, Jackson watched the way it worked with the Warriors. He’s no dummy. The Machiavellians have always reigned here, always prospered. He just learned the way it works, and he’s making it work for him with an exit strategy of belligerence.
Make no mistake: Management will make Jack the boogeyman now because there’s always a bad guy here. From Chris Webber(notes) to Latrell Sprewell, Mullin to P.J. Carlesimo, Baron Davis(notes) to Jackson, there’s always a fall guy for Cohan and his meddling, overmatched president, Bobby Rowell. Jackson isn’t innocent, but he sure beat the Warriors. Jax wants out and he’ll make life for the Warriors until he gets his wish.
Jackson flipped on Friday night in Los Angeles when Nellie let him stay on the floor to pick up five fouls and a technical inside of 10 minutes. Jax was at wit’s end when he started clinging close to Kobe Bryant(notes). One source on the court says Kobe addressed Jax as “Young Fella,” and for some odd reason that pushed Jackson over the edge. Soon, Jackson was cursing Nellie and storming to the locker room on his way to a two-game preseason suspension.
The residue of a historic season two years ago – the biggest upset in NBA playoff history – has washed away. Mullin was the executive responsible for returning the Warriors to the playoffs for the first time in 13 years, and his reward was getting bum-rushed by Rowell and Nelson, whom he hired off his hammock in Maui.
Jackson is the story with Golden State now, but he isn’t the issue.
Before the Warriors turn this franchise over to a marvelous rookie guard, Stephen Curry(notes), and a promising 7-footer, Anthony Randolph(notes), Cohan should stop sputtering with overtures to sell the Warriors and do everyone a favor: Sell now.
The bid of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been out there, but details of another intriguing offer to buy the Warriors has emerged, several sources told Yahoo! Sports. There is a well-moneyed and politically connected Bay Area group that has approached Cohan about purchasing the team and building a privately funded arena in downtown San Francisco. What’s more, the group has already had third parties call several well-respected NBA front-office executives about running the team.
As for Ellison, sources say he knows what the Warriors are worth in his mind and he isn’t inclined to raise the offer Cohan has already rejected. The Warriors and NBA deny the team is for sale, but as one official with knowledge of the bids says, while Cohan “can go hot and cold,” the San Jose Mercury News’ reports over the summer were accurate. It’s just a matter of time until he sells.
For everyone’s sake, the sooner, the better. The Warriors are endemic of a bigger problem in the NBA: bad ownership draining good markets. The Bay Area has been so loyal to that lousy basketball team. When they finally ended a run of 12 seasons without playoff basketball in 2007, Oracle Arena delivered an unparalleled atmosphere. Now, the Warriors are left with Nellie, a great coach, but ill-suited so late in life for such a young team. Those Warriors were a remarkable story, an unforgettable testament to Nellie’s small-ball a en, but were reflective of the owner’s tenure: never built to last.
Cohan and Rowell have this habit of falling into love with the wrong coaches and players, and Nellie should’ve returned to Hawaii once they broke up this team and decided to go young. Golden State is where great young talent comes to stagnate. As Stephen Jackson pushes his way out now, the cycle of rising young talent will take over another Warriors lottery team. Once and for all, the owner should spare everyone the inevitable fate of his basketball incompetence.
The suitors are lining up for this franchise, and it’s time: Sell the Warriors, Cohan. Sell them now.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns
Hornets is one of the few teams where Jackson makes sense. They should try to get him.
Warriors to talk to Jackson Tuesday
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
The Golden State Warriors will attempt to work unhappy forward Stephen Jackson back into their team fold starting Tuesday, when the Warriors are scheduled to hold their first home practice following four straight preseason games on the road.
Jackson is expected to meet with Warriors general manager Larry Riley and coach Don Nelson before that practice, after missing the last two of those exhibition games through a team-imposed suspension for a sideline blowup with Nelson on Friday night in Los Angeles that was deemed "conduct detrimental" to the club.
Reached Sunday by ESPN.com, Nelson said he is still unwilling to go into detail about the exchange and would not expound on his plans for Jackson beyond confirming Tuesday's planned sitdown.
"We will talk," Nelson said.
The Warriors, according to NBA front-office sources, remain open to granting Jackson's wish to be traded as long as they can find a palatable deal, which is what Nelson told local reporters at the Warriors' annual media day two weeks ago. Yet it appears unlikely that the latest blowup with Jackson -- who initially revealed his wish to be moved to Cleveland, New York or one of the three Texas teams at a Dime Magazine party in late August -- will push Golden State to pursue a trade more aggressively, because it is unlikely such an approach would speed the process.
Sources say that the Warriors have indeed made and fielded numerous trade calls regarding Jackson since his desire to leave was made public, but no deal appears close. Golden State knows that the main stumbling block to a trade won't change even if it ultimately decides that the 31-year-old can't be reconnected with his teammates after such a tumultuous start to the season and that he must be moved.
That stumbling block: Jackson's three-year, $27.8 million contract extension, which doesn't even kick in until the 2010-11 season, will likely continue to make it difficult for the Warriors to find a trade partner in the current NBA marketplace.
Jackson has championship experience after helping the San Antonio Spurs win their second of four les in 2003 and last season ranked alongside LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade in the exclusive club of players to average at least 20 points, six assists and five rebounds per game. Yet the reality persists that very few teams in this economy are open to taking on players in their 30s with multiple years remaining on their contracts.
The Contra Costa Times reported late last week that the Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers had discussed a trade headlined by Jackson and Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who possesses an attractive expiring contract that pays $11.5 million this season. But sources told ESPN.com that the talks were roughly a month old and unlikely to lead to a deal, with one source characterizing the discussions as "nothing substantive."
Attempts to reach Jackson over the weekend were unsuccessful. His clash with Nelson occurred Friday night after Jackson went to the bench having racked up five fouls and a technical foul in just over nine minutes of the first quarter of Golden State's road win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
Jackson was hit Saturday with a two-game suspension that kept him out of the Warriors' outdoor game Saturday night against Phoenix in Indian Wells, Calif., and will also hold him out of Monday's visit to Staples Center for Golden State's game against the Los Angeles Clippers. The suspension without pay will cost him $139,090, which takes Jackson's financial losses for the season to nearly $165,000 after factoring in a $25,000 fine he received from the NBA for publicly requesting a trade.
ESPN.com reported Sept. 15 that Nelson had no plans to strip Jackson of his captaincy in the wake of Jackson's trade demand, but it is not yet known whether the latest incident will lead to a re-think. As promised, Nelson re-established Jackson as a co-captain at the start of this season along with center Andris Biedrins, guard Monta Ellis and forward Ronny Turiaf.
On Sept. 25, Nelson told Bay Area-based reporters that he didn't think Jackson's discontent would be hard to manage, saying: "I legitimately love Jack. We're good friends. I understand him. I think I do. He's hard to understand all the time. But we get along fine. We have a good relationship. I'll be able to coach him, it's not a problem."
Jackson has been the Warriors' emotional leader almost from the time he arrived in a January 2007 trade with Indiana, leaving behind a controversial past with the Pacers marked by his participation in the melee in Detroit that spilled into the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills in November 2004.
Led by Baron Davis and Jackson, Golden State halted a 12-season playoff drought with its late surge into the No. 8 spot and subsequent first-round upset of the 67-win Dallas Mavericks in '07. The Warriors then finished as the most successful non-playoff team in the history of the NBA's 16-team playoff format with a record of 48-34 as the West's No. 9 seed in 2007-08.
But Jackson's discontent has been brewing since Davis left town to sign as a free agent with the Clippers in July 2008. Sources say that unhappiness spilled over this offseason after the Warriors' attempts to acquire Amare Stoudemire from the Phoenix Suns broke down in June after the NBA draft.
Yet sources close to the situation insist that the Stoudemire deal was never as close to fruition as some suggested, with Golden State unwilling to part with its lottery pick once Stephen Curry became available to the Warriors with the No. 7 overall selection and with Stoudemire believed to be unwilling to commit to a contract extension in Oakland.
Stoudemire can opt out of his Suns contract at season's end if he is willing to forfeit his $17.6 million salary for 2010-11, which would make him one of the league's prized free agents in the much-anticipated summer of 2010. On top of its concerns about Stoudemire's recovery from eye and knee problems, Golden State inevitably would have wanted assurances that it could have secured Stoudemire for the long term before parting with any prized assets.
Asked last week if he was ever worried that Phoenix was close to sending him to Golden State, Stoudemire told ESPN.com: "It was still up to me, but that's something I really don't discuss too much. I just want to focus on what we have at hand."
Jackson says he will 'do my job'
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson still isn't saying much about Tuesday's meeting with disgruntled forward Stephen Jackson, but Jackson has told a Bay Area newspaper that he is prepared to rejoin the team after serving a two-game suspension for a sideline blowup with Nelson.
"I've got no choice but to go out there," Jackson said in a phone interview Monday with the Contra Costa Times. "I'm just going to do my job. I don't want to be fake. I'm just going to go and play basketball and handle my business."
The sitdown was scheduled by Nelson and Warriors general manager Larry Riley to discuss face-to-face with Jackson how to proceed in the wake of Jackson's well-chronicled request to be traded and subsequent spat with Nelson on the bench during the first quarter of the Warriors' exhibition victory last Friday in Los Angeles.
Before the Warriors' preseason game Monday night against the Los Angeles Clippers, Nelson declined to share what he hopes to achieve in the chat with Jackson, telling reporters: "I don't have an agenda. We're just meeting. It'll be a private meeting."
But sources with knowledge of Golden State's thinking told ESPN.com on Monday that the Warriors do want to get Jackson back on the floor as soon as possible if reinstating him does not lead to further distractions, believing that it will be even more difficult to trade Jackson than it already is if he is not playing regularly.
The Warriors, sources said, do not want to send Jackson home for an extended stay until they can find a deal, as the Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks did last season with Jamaal Tinsley and Stephon Marbury, respectively, before ultimately negotiating buyouts with both players when trades couldn't be struck.
A buyout would not be feasible in Jackson's case, given that he's earning $7.6 million this season before entering into a three-year contract extension worth $27.8 million starting with the 2010-11 season. So the Warriors will undoubtedly prefer to hear that Jackson is indeed prepared to return to work.
ESPN.com reported Sunday that the Warriors, according to sources, remain willing to grant Jackson's wish to be traded as long as they can find a palatable deal, which is what Nelson said publicly in late September. Sources say that Golden State has indeed made and fielded numerous trade calls regarding Jackson since his desire to leave was made public in late August, but no deal appears close in an economy where teams are overwhelmingly reluctant to take on players in their 30s possessing long-term contracts.
"If something happens, then it happens," Jackson told the newspaper Monday when asked about being traded. "But I'm just going to play, just do what I do."
ESPN.com reported Sept. 15 that Nelson had no plans to strip Jackson of his captaincy in the wake of Jackson's wish to be dealt to Cleveland, New York or one of the three Texas teams, which Jackson revealed at a Dime Magazine party in New York. But it remains unclear whether Jackson's two-game suspension will affect his captaincy, after Nelson, as promised, re-established the 31-year-old as a co-captain at the start of this season along with center Andris Biedrins, guard Monta Ellis and forward Ronny Turiaf.
When pressed for specifics before Monday's game against the Clippers, Nelson said: "I'm not going to comment on [Jackson's situation]."
Jackson was hit Saturday with a two-game suspension that kept him out of the Warriors' outdoor game for what was deemed "conduct detrimental to the team." His clash with Nelson occurred Friday night after Jackson went to the bench having racked up five fouls and a technical foul in just over nine minutes against the Lakers.
Sources said Jackson screamed expletives at Nelson at least twice before being sent to the locker room. Sitting out the two games cost him $139,091 in salary, which takes Jackson's financial losses for the season to nearly $165,000 after factoring in a $25,000 fine he received from the NBA for publicly requesting a trade.
Jackson told the newspaper that he was upset that Nelson and the rest of the Warriors' bench not only exposed him to trouble by leaving him in the game after his third foul in the first quarter but also for not sufficiently sticking up for him with the replacement referees working that night after Jackson's multiple tangles with Kobe Bryant.
"I felt like I didn't get handled right in the game," Jackson said Monday. "I know I did what I'm supposed to do being a man. I'm not going to let Kobe throw elbows at me.
"[Things are] always made out to make me look bad. At the end of the day, I wouldn't disrespect [Nelson] like that. But I was mad at our staff for not having my back. If I'm going to go out there and bust my ass for you, I expect you to have my back."
The newspaper also reported that Jackson spent Monday at the Oakland Zoo with his wife while missing the Warriors' 124-117 loss to the Clippers to complete the suspension.
Trade interest in Jackson would undoubtedly be widespread if he was entering the final year of his contract. He not only possesses championship experience after helping the San Antonio Spurs win their second of four les in 2003 but last season ranked alongside LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade in the exclusive club of players to average at least 20 points, six assists and five rebounds per game.
But the extension Jackson signed early last season has hampered the Warriors' efforts to find him a new home -- and focus on the promising youngsters they've stockpiled such as forward Anthony Randolph, sharpshooter Anthony Morrow and rookie guard Stephen Curry -- in spite of Jackson's mostly positive playoff history.
Jackson has been the Warriors' emotional leader almost from the time he arrived in a January 2007 trade with Indiana, leaving behind a controversial past with the Pacers marked by his participation in the melee in Detroit that spilled into the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills in November 2004.
Led by Baron Davis and Jackson, Golden State halted a 12-season playoff drought with its late surge into the No. 8 spot and subsequent first-round upset of the 67-win Dallas Mavericks in '07. The Warriors then finished as the most successful non-playoff team in the history of the NBA's 16-team playoff format with a record of 48-34 as the West's No. 9 seed in 2007-08.
But Jackson's discontent has been brewing since Davis left town to sign as a free agent with the Clippers in July 2008. Sources say that unhappiness spilled over this offseason after the Warriors' attempts to acquire Amare Stoudemire from the Phoenix Suns broke down in June after the NBA draft.
Jackson apparently believed that Stoudemire's arrival was imminent, but sources close to the situation insist that the Stoudemire deal was never as close to fruition as some suggested, with Golden State unwilling to part with its lottery pick once Curry became available to the Warriors with the No. 7 overall selection and with Stoudemire believed to be unwilling to commit to a contract extension in Oakland.
Stoudemire can opt out of his Suns contract at season's end if he is willing to forfeit his $17.6 million salary for 2010-11, which would make him one of the league's prized free agents in the much-anticipated summer of 2010. On top of its concerns about Stoudemire's recovery from eye and knee problems, Golden State inevitably would have wanted assurances that it could have secured Stoudemire for the long term before parting with any prized assets.
Asked last week if he was ever worried that Phoenix was close to sending him to Golden State, Stoudemire told ESPN.com: "It was still up to me, but that's something I really don't discuss too much. I just want to focus on what we have at hand."
There really isn't a good fit for Stephen Jackson on any of the really good teams in the league. Most teams in general don't have the pieces Golden State would require in return, let alone be able to afford his contract if they are salary conscious for the 2010 free agency.
But here's a trade idea that both teams might consider and might actually benefit both teams as well:
Trade proposal
-Stephen Jackson, Monta Ellis, and Brandan Wright to Miami (approx. $21.3 million)
-Michael Beasley, Dorell Wright, Quentin Richardson, and James Jones to Golden State (approx. $21.1 million)
Now Golden State would be able to ship out disgruntled Stephen Jackson and dump Monta Ellis' contract, who is still a good player but possibly may have worn out his welcome over the last two years. It opens up playing time for Curry, Anthony Morrow, and Kelenna Azubuike. And it nets the Warriors with a high lottery talent in Beasley, if they're willing to take him and his personal issues on. Richardson's contract expires and James Jones has a team option after this year, so for all intents and purposes, his deal expires as well. The Warriors would be giving up a lot of scoring, but if they really have faith in Curry (I know there are many on here that don't) and Randolph, it very could be a deal they would want to make.
Miami would be making a major move in not only trying to give them a chance to contend in the Eastern Conference this year, but perhaps a move to try to entice Wade to re-sign. Ellis and Jackson would instantly make the Heat a much more dynamic and potent offensive team, and they'd fit right into starting roles as soon as they get there. The obvious downside is that the Heat would be adding major payroll (about $19 million for 2010-11) on long term contracts (both contracts through 2012-13, with Ellis having an option for 2013-14). However, two things that could help with that issue is 1) if the Heat let all the other contracts on the roster expire except for Ellis and SJax and still re-sign Wade, they'd still have around $17-19 million in cap space to sign one more big free agent and then fill in the rest of the roster with minimum contracts, and 2) if Wade walks, the Heat would still have a young player in Monta Ellis with star potential. The Heat would have to consider a deal like this, especially with Beasley not performing up to his draft slot.
Miami isn't a contender now, but if they add Ellis and SJax with only really giving up Beasley, especially in the Eastern Conference, they could be a solid contender at least in their conference. Here's what the teams would look like:
Golden State
Stephen Curry / Acie Law / Speedy Claxton
Kelenna Azubuike / Anthony Morrow / Quentin Richardson
Michael Beasley / Corey Maggette / Devean George / Dorell Wright
Anthony Randolph / Ronny Turiaf / James Jones
Andris Biedrins / Mikki Moore
Miami
Monta Ellis / Mario Chalmers / Chris Quinn
Dwyane Wade / Daequan Cook
Stephen Jackson / Yakouba Diawara
Udonis Haslem / Brandan Wright / Anthony Tolliver
Jermaine O'Neal / Joel Anthony / Jamaal Magloire
I don't know. I kinda like it for both teams.
We need another aging jump shooter. Jackson should win a ring with the best point guard to ever play the game.
Jackson is far more than an aging jumpshooter.
It makes sense, I'd hate it only cause I like Beasley and Nelson would kill his development.
I know, but he will be in a few years.
Not worth starting a new thread; Jackson asked Nelson if he could give up his captain le.
This seems less like a humble, "I'm not a good example anymore" kind of gesture, and more a like "Fired? No I quit!" kind of thing.
link to story
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- "Captain Jack" is no more.
Disgruntled Golden State star Stephen Jackson asked to relinquish his captain le during a meeting Tuesday with Warriors coach Don Nelson and general manager Larry Riley.
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"Don't try to dig into it, that's just how I feel," Jackson said. "I don't want to be a role model. ... Being captain was overrated to me, anyway. You don't do anything but go out before the game and talk to the refs. I don't want to do that, anyway."
Nelson accepted Jackson's request and called it a "good thing" on the heels of the emotional swingman's two-game suspension for an outburst directed at the coach early in Friday's preseason game against the Lakers in Los Angeles.
"Well, the prodigal son has returned," Nelson said after Jackson rejoined the team for Tuesday's practice. "It's good to have Jack back. We're going to keep him in the same position as far as my starting three is concerned."
Jackson, who made a public trade request in August and was later fined $25,000 by the NBA for doing so, acknowledged he didn't think Nelson supported him to the referees in a physical matchup with Kobe Bryant.
Jackson picked up five fouls and a technical in less than 10 minutes and was sent to the locker room by Nelson following a testy exchange.
Jackson never returned and the suspension ensued. He and his wife visited the zoo during the time off -- and Jackson didn't watch basketball, though he said he checked the boxscore and called some teammates to tell them good game.
The rest of the Warriors are trying to stay out of Jackson's spat with management.
"I'm not really worried about who's turned in their captain badges," guard Kelenna Azubuike said.
Still, they missed their leading scorer from last season the past two games.
Nelson considered Tuesday's meeting with Jackson productive and said the Warriors "aren't asking him to be somebody different than he is." The 31-year-old Jackson said his relationship with Nelson has changed because of this incident.
The suspension cost him approximately $139,000 in salary.
"Any time somebody takes $150,000 from me, of course it's going to change," Jackson said. "If my mom took some money from me I'd still love her to death but I'd still be upset about it. And he's not my mom."
All of this after Jackson was so thrilled when Nelson called to ask him to be captain before last season that he apparently celebrated with champagne.
But Jackson has been upset with the Warriors' decline since he helped the franchise end a 13-year postseason drought with a trip to the second round of the playoffs in 2007.
Then why did he agree to a three-year, $28 million contract extension last November? He said that was about money -- he couldn't turn it down. But now he wants out, and the sooner the better.
"We're going to try to accommodate him but it's not that easy to do," Nelson said.
Jackson averaged 20.7 points, 5.1 rebounds and 6.5 assists in 59 games last season. He insists he will continue to play hard as long as he's here.
Jackson still thinks a trade could happen.
"I don't think it's hard. I know there's a lot of teams that want me. I'm a good player," he said. "I speak my mind. I don't bite my tongue for no one. Whether you pay me or not, I'm not biting my tongue."
Jackson acknowledged the Warriors helped him repair his rocky image, though he's also said he has no regrets about going into the stands with Ron Artest during the infamous Pacers-Pistons brawl in 2004.
"This ain't the first time I lost money. I lost $3 million on the fight," Jackson said. "I didn't agree with [the latest suspension]. Anybody who'd seen the game saw how I got handled out there. I got treated wrong, no question."
When asked whether he felt he had Nelson's support Friday, he said, "If I would have felt that way I wouldn't have blew up."
Jackson said he won't be a distraction. He said he'd be open to sitting out if that's what the Warriors decide is best.
"If they want to send me home and pay me, I'm fine with that," he said.
The Indiana Pacers last season told Jamaal Tinsley not to report to training camp and didn't allow him to play. New York kept Stephon Marbury on the bench then later told him to stay away until the Knicks finally waived him after he agreed to a buyout of his $20.8 million contract. Boston then acquired him.
In regards to a buyout, Jackson said: "It has to be right. I doubt if they'd do that."
For now, everybody involved would like to move forward.
That's tough to do when Jackson says he can't guarantee something similar won't happen again.
"We'll have to wait and see. I can't predict the future," he said.
"I hope not," Nelson said. "The only unfortunate part is we've been doing some very nice things. We've been playing pretty darn well and nobody seems to know. Things happen and you deal with them and you move on."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4557116
And where is Stephon Marbury? Is he still alive?
What player and coaches would those be?
It wasn't even that. He was in Phoenix and his at ude was , but, the Suns own the paper (Arizona Republic) and the paper owns a piece of the Suns so everything is kept neat & tidy that way. They paid him and dropped him off north of the picket wire.
One would think so, but the Hornets did take on Okafor's lengthy and expensive contract over Chandler's.
Fear does that to you.......
+1 Exactly what I was thinking.
A Warriors fan suggested this.
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMa...tradeId=kjb3c6
Makes sense, since Peja's contract is shorter and S-Jax is trying to sabotage the team right now.
the right package would save some money in the short run. Peja for Sjax+Claxton would save about 3.5 million this season (salary + tax) and move the Hornets closer to the threshold, while getting a much better team with sjax instead of Peja. thanks to this move they would be able to avoid payinglax tax at all, depending on the threshold it might be up to 7 million they save. (if the threshold goes down to about 65-66 million, considering saved tax and tax return). so overall it might be a wash even in the long run, but they get a much better team, at least for the next two seasons.
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