Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 9:00 am  |  55 responses

Stephen Jackson’s New Home: Dallas?

by Marcel Mutoni

Cap’n Jack no longer wants to man the sinking ship in Golden State — he let the world know this past Friday. Stephen says he wants to play for a Playoff team, so naturally he lists the Knicks as one of his preferred destinations. Huh?.

Regardless, now is time for the always-fun speculation about the color of Jackson’s next uniform.

According to DallasBasketball.com, the Mavs could soon be hearing from Don Nelson and the Warriors about Stephen Jackson’s availability:

On Friday morning, I spoke with a source very close to the Golden State front office who tells me that Nellie is leading serious in-house conversation about proposing a trade to the Mavs that would move a rotation-caliber player from Golden State to Dallas in exchange for cap relief.

I, for one, hope this is true, simply to see Don Nelson and Mark Cuban back at the negotiating table after everything that’s gone down between them.

Nellie, who apparently loves Stephen Curry, is rumored to also want Monta Ellis shipped out of town alongside Jackson.

Of course, Nelson and the Warriors will somehow have to convince a team owner to take on $80 mil in salaries for both guys. That may be a tad steep for even someone like Mark Cuban these days.

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  • davidR

    yea bling, i didnt understand all the hate pietrus was getting on the internet before he got shipped to the magic. i know the warriors have a bunch of new fans because of the we believe run, but 80% of them are ignorant as hell. i’m curious to see what they all think of pietrus after his playoff run, and why shipping jax would be a good idea

  • davidR

    the other thing is, while stephen might still be a warrior during the season, how motivated will he be to play hard for the team? and will nelson give him the same treatment he gave to jamal and harrington until he’s gone?

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Blinguo

    Baron too in the end, on the outs, in a huge game that could have equaled playoffs. Granted those two mentioned didn’t openly ask for trades before getting Nelson hate, did they? But still Jax is walking a very thin line for madman Nellie rage.
    And half dogging it would be worse than that open the season w/ 7 game suspension by far. As could be making his trade value rise by doing too much, even in this offense.
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    Pietrus wanted to be and knew “We’re the Warriors future!” talking after game interviews, about him and Biedrins. Now he’s Orlando’s future and was huge for them to get to the Finals and got praise for defense, while not a stopper, thought by some to better than anybody else, ever even, on LeBron.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com Hursty

    JL – Jax is 30 btw.
    Why get rid of Monta? Urgh.

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