Write down your predictions next week. It can be a major move, small move, or no move at all. My theory based off of trade rumors or team needs will be a Pacers trade involving Ron Artest and Dampier. It will be a win-win trade for both. They need more rebounding, we need a small forward in case Dunleavy can't step us his game this year.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting custodianrules2:</div><div class="quote_post">Write down your predictions next week. It can be a major move, small move, or no move at all. My theory based off of trade rumors or team needs will be a Pacers trade involving Ron Artest and Dampier. It will be a win-win trade for both. They need more rebounding, we need a small forward in case Dunleavy can't step us his game this year.</div> I just don't see this happening. As much as I would want Ron Artest on the Warriors, we would most certainly have to offer one or more of our young core players to make that trade happen. I am not ready to give up on them that quickly. Also, why stop Mike Dunleavy's progression now? That would mean that all of last year just went to waste. Last year, Mike got a taste of the NBA and I am excited as to how he will respond to it this year. All I am asking in return of Damp is someone who will not mess up our team chemistry and/or our cap situation (which I think is already pretty screwed up). The best case scenerio is getting an expiring contract who will help our team and young players, and a draft pick/ young unexpensive player(rookie contract), while maintaining all of our young core (Richarsdson, Dunleavy, Murphy, Speedy, Pietrus, Andris). I feel some people are putting to mcuh emphasis on the "superstar" player, and very little emphasis on our developing young soon-to-be "superstars"
My guess is that a trade will go down with a team that has not been heavily rumored to be involved with the Warriors. Something that's not too flashy, but will fulfill our need at SF.
15% chance he walks. 65% chance he is traded for some combination of cap relief (primarily Esch contract), draft pick, young role player, depth at SF. 15% chance he is traded for talented player - some team may yet panic. 5% chance of big trade (Damp plus one of our young core). Ultimately, if we maintain cap space until next year, we can choose the players we want to pursue, rather than take what other teams want to give us, but I imagine some team will offer us something worth taking. At the same time, it's not easy to trade a contract like Damp's and not get back some garbage.
