Dan

If he's an unrestricted FA, it's not a choice of letting him go for nothing.

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MrJayremmie

that puts MAYBE 11 teams competing for 8 spots (if you still think that GS is competitive).

God damn the west.

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nikolokolus

Monta Ellis is not nearly the distributor that Baron is; Ellis is very much in the Leandro Barbosa mold (or our very own Jerryd Bayless perhaps?). GSW are going to have a very different flow to their offense next season, and you have to wonder if Ellis will be able to setup his teammates as well as Davis did.

Then again, considering the way that team just jacks up threes in the first five seconds of the shot clock, they might be fine*



*if you consider no defense, no post presence, and high volume shooting "fine"

MrJayremmie

lmao at the last 2 lines of your post nik.

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andalusian

They did not have bird rights to all 3 of them - while we do to ours...

ProZach

The best part of all this is that now Golden State has offered Brand around 100 million, 25 more than the Clippers originally offered him. So they'll either get back at the Cliippers by taking their best player, or force Sterling to shell out another 20-25 million. Great, humorous counter attack by Golden State.

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uhh...

Minstrel

The Clippers can't up their offer, I don't think. I believe, but am not certain, that they renounced their Bird rights to Brand to remove his caphold, in order to free up enough cap space to sign Davis. The remaining cap room is what they're using to sign Brand, which is a pay cut.

But I am sure the Clippers only did this with Brand's okay. They wouldn't cut him loose unexpectedly, to sign someone else, and then expect him to sign back with them for less.

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alext42083

Monta Ellis is nowhere near the leader that Baron is, and Golden State didn't let Baron go. It pretty much came to a surprise to everyone with the Warriors.

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