Baron opts out, signs on with McDonalds?!

After the draft where we picked up another big man project and let the trade exception expire, wake up Warrior fans, Baron Davis has opted out of his contract. What looked like a relatively boring offseason - the draft and resigning Monta and Beans - just got verrrry interesting. Opting out does not mean he's leaving, but it does give him some negotiating power with Mullin. And most likely, even if Baron leaves, we'll get some sort of compensation though I'm not sure how well Mullin will negotiate that.

Some thoughts after the jump...

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I honestly didn't see this one coming at all. I can't believe this is happening. His Boomness Baron Davis has opted out of his contract. What in the name of Recall-Cohan.com is going on?

This ain't a vivrant thang.

Jump for a few quick thoughts.

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The Trade Exception expired today. It's been a year since the Warriors traded JRich for BWright and 9.9million. It's been a year that we've all learned what and how to use the exception. It's been a year of reading about proposed trades, some worthy of blog space, many not. Hopefully we can now only read ridiculous trade proposals that no longer include the exception and someone commenting "the trade exception cannot be combined blah blah blah".

The Warriors can use some of it, all of it, or most likely none of it. Today the trade exception will see its death. So for one last time, feel free to post any ridiculous trades in the comments. Here's mine:

9.9million TE + Monta for LeBron and Ben Wallace. Dubs do it because we get LeBron! I hate to see Monta go because I'm sure he'll be almost as good as LeBron. Cleveland does it because they get rid of Ben Wallace's contract and Monta is going to be amazing, an All-Star for many years. I don't know if it actually works salary wise because I'm too lazy to check it in the trade machine.

Welcome to the end of the trade exception and ridiculous trade proposals involving it. But there will not be an end to ridicluous trade proposals.

We're back at it one more time on the Photoshop tip and right where I left off with last week's Native Dubz post. It's summer time and I'm seriously on chill mode- that also goes for some of my projects. Since I don't have to work on high res prints for game signs, I'm taking a time out and rocking out with Photoshop CS3 and using smaller resolution files. This week I'm collecting a number of past Hip-Hop favorites and sprinkling a touch of Golden State into it...

A brief breakdown after the jump!

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Went digging around a little to see what people thought of the Warriors' draft picking up Anthony Randolph and Richard Hendrix.

ESPN Draft Grades

Grade: A

Analysis: Randolph has as much upside as anyone in the draft not named Beasley or Rose. But as with the huge upside guy they took last year, Brandan Wright, it might take Randolph a while to realize it.

I'm assuming down the road they'll play Wright at the 4 and hope Randolph develops into a 3. Along with Monta Ellis and Andris Biedrins, Wright and Randolph could form a nice young core for the time when Baron Davis, Al Harrington and Stephen Jackson move on.

As for Hendrix, he can be a solid role player -- a good get at No. 49.

Tim Kawakami at Talking Points: Warriors take Anthony Randolph… hey, sometimes it’s NOT a smokescreen

Just saw Don Nelson, who was smoking cigars with his coaches and they had big smiles. I popped over and just asked him if he got his guy with Anthony Randolph. “That’s the guy I wanted,” Nelson said. There ya go.

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