Warriors Waive Waste

The Golden State Warriors waived resident poet, democracy advocate, and general waste of roster space Adonal Foyle today. Foyle, who had two fully guaranteed years and $1 million guaranteed for a third remaining on his horrendously bloated contract, agreed to a buyout. Per NBA rules, whatever his buyout amount is will be spread over the remaining 3 years (this is for cap purposes; for real money payment purposes he can get the money in 1 lump sum if that is what was negotiated) in proportion to the amount of guaranteed money that was due to Foyle per his contract.

This ends a 10 year run with the Warriors for Foyle. Well, run may be a bad choice of words. Perhaps "waddle" or "bench warming" would be more appropriate. At the time of the waiving, only Duncan and Bryant had longer tenures with their teams. That's 7 rings and approximately 20 All NBA appearances against Foyle 7 dozen onion rings per week and 20 guest lectures. This was obviously a decade (and well over $50 million) well spent by the Warriors organization.

In more quirky news, 21 year old Andris Biedrins is now the longest tenured Warrior (pending Mickael Pietrus' potential return). Virtually all remnants of pre-Mullin regimes have been eliminated, and the quartet of atrocious contracts (Foyle, Fisher, Murphy, and Dunleavy - Richardson's contract was merely bad) Mullin personally handed out are now out of sight and out of mind.

Pittsburgh? Really?

When it looked like the Giants would be stuck with all their aging, rotting, decomposing trash, an unlikely savior emerged - the Pittsburgh Pirates. They not only took Matt Morris and the entire remainder of his contract, but sent the Giants an MLB ready prospect (not a great one at this point, but who knows) and a prospect to be named later. Pittsburgh is the rare team worse than the Giants, so who knows why they'd want Morris. I wonder if Sabean thought he was getting a prank call. If not, he probably couldn't say yes fast enough. Oh, and thanks for Schmidt 5 years ago.

Now the hope is that a few of the aging underachievers catch fire, clear wavers, and draw some trade offers before the waiver trade deadline.