[rumor] Pistons looking to trade for Baron Davis

[Afflalo (Arron Afflalo)]

OAKLAND, Calif. — As the hours tick down to a draft that will start the ball
rolling on the Warriors’ potentially franchise-changing offseason, they can
be sure of one thing: Star point guard Baron Davis will remain under contract
for 2008-09.

But that doesn’t guarantee he’ll be wearing a Golden State uniform when the
season begins. 

A team source said that Davis has told teammates he will not exercise the
opt-out provision in his contract before its June 30 expiration date, meaning
that he will play out the final year of the deal at a salary of $17.8
million. 

Todd Ramasar, Davis’ agent, would only say Tuesday that “it’s not likely”
his client will opt out, but the source said Davis was “realistic” about
the difficulty in recouping that guaranteed money in a free-agent market that
is not especially flush with cash.

The threat of an opt out was one of the few pieces of leverage Davis had in
talks with the Warriors regarding a contract extension, but it did not spur
the team into action. The sides were far apart in terms of numbers when they
sat down last month, and although the dialogue has continued, it appears the
two sides remain similarly disconnected at this point.

Given that stalemate, it’s possible that Davis, who wants to stay in the Bay
Area but was disappointed with the lowball offers from the Warriors, will ask
to be dealt. And the team source said that the Detroit Pistons, rebuffed
initially in their attempts to pry forward Carmelo Anthony from the Denver
Nuggets, are now looking at Davis as a potential target. 

Joe Dumars, the Pistons’ president of basketball operations, gave notice
after losing the Eastern Conference finals that no one on his veteran-laden
team would be safe, and the source said Detroit is willing to divest itself
of longtime stars Rasheed Wallace and Chauncey Billups. 

Wallace, like Davis an unrestricted free agent after ’08-09, would give the
Warriors their best true power forward since Chris Webber’s first stint in
1993-94 and has 3-point range that coach Don Nelson would love.

And the inclusion of Billups, who has been made more expendable by the
emergence of rookie Rodney Stuckey last season, would ease any concerns from
Nelson about the point guard position. Although Nelson thinks Monta Ellis
eventually needs to move to point guard, he played him primarily at shooting
guard on offense last season, allowing Davis to quarterback the team.

Since Wallace and Billups will combine to take home nearly $25 million in
2008-09, the Warriors would need to add more salary ballast to Davis in order
to make the salary-cap numbers work. 

One possibility in that role would be forward Al Harrington. A source close
to the 10th-year forward said he is currently leaning toward requesting a
trade from the Warriors this summer, although he will not make a final
decision until after the draft.

Harrington clearly was frustrated at being bounced in and out of the lineup
by Nelson last season and at being asked to become a 3-point specialist on
offense. His role could become even more diminished if Nelson follows through
with his current plan of bringing second-year forward Brandan Wright into the
rotation.

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作者: pennymarcus (De-troit Basketball) 看板: Pistons
標題: Re: [rumor] Pistons looking to trade for Baron  …
時間: Thu Jun 26 19:44:08 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6lf5ve
底特律新聞報記者Chris McCosky直接了當地否定了這則謠言。

Nothing to Davis rumor

Pay no attention to the report out of Oakland that the Pistons and Warriors
talked about a deal that would send Rasheed Wallace and Chauncey Billups to
Golden State for Baron Davis. That deal was a total fabrication, nothing of
the sort was ever discussed.

基於之前McCosky信心滿滿表示老桑會留任 於是我找到了底特律自由報的報導佐證

http://tinyurl.com/58uglc

There was nothing imminent as of Wednesday evening, and, apparently, no truth
to a report that the Pistons were talking to the Golden State Warriors about
a trade involving Chauncey Billups, Rasheed Wallace, Baron Davis and Al
Harrington. The two sides haven't even talked, according to a Pistons source.