The Warriors’ Third Annual June Meltdown
blogs.mercurynews.com 6/17/2009 — April may be the cruelest month, but June is the most disgruntled. When rumors surfaced late Monday that all was not well with Monta Ellis, it should have come as no great surprise. It’s June of course, the month in which all Warriors drama seems ...

Will Monta Zoom Elsewhere After Draft?
slamdunkcentral.com 6/17/2009 — Last Summer Monta Ellis signed a long-term big money deal with the Golden State Warriors and then injured himself in a moped accident. This Summer Ellis might be hopping on that moped and heading out of the Bay Area. The “ San Jose Mercury News ” is reporting that Ellis met with ...

No promise was made to Monta Ellis
scoresreport.com 6/19/2009 — On his draft buzz blog [Insider subscription required], Chad Ford dispelled the notion that the Warriors made a promise to Monta Ellis not to draft a point guard at #7. He spoke with GM Larry Riley, who said that the topic never came up. In an interview with KNBR, Ellis confirmed that the ...

Golden State Warriors 1st Round Draft History and Just My Imagination
goldenstateofmind.com 6/23/2009 — What if the Warriors had a string of PERFECT drafts with their 1st round picks during the Chris Cohan era of prime suckitude? What if there were no busts and only draft delights for this franchise since  Cohan sued his way into owning this ...

The NBA’s Best Fans — and the Franchise that Takes Them for Granted
blogs.mercurynews.com 5/27/2009 — In politics, the rule is simple: dump your worst news on Friday, the later the better. As for holiday weekends, the preceding Fridays are littered with the disclosures of countless matters with which you’d never want your name associated. The ...

News Flash: the Blog War is on
brightsideofthesun.com 7/1/2009 —   We've been quite polite these past weeks as we have endured the infestation of a number of Dubs trolls.  Some of them have been polite and interesting.  Some have been so obnoxious that they've even been banned from the SB Nation Warriors Blog, Golden State of Mind . I like ...

My Warriors’ 2008-09 honor roll: Turiaf, Azubuike and Randolph
blogs.mercurynews.com 4/30/2009 — * Adam L’s doing grades, too. He gets an A. I get a D- all the way, just like in Geometry. This is very, excessively late, and for that I apologize. Blame the draft. Blame baseball. Blame my pals in Sharkdom. Blame the bleah ending of the ...

MT-2: Stoudemire and Warriors in contract talks, trade pending
blogs.mercurynews.com 6/25/2009 — This sounds A LOT like the Kevin Garnett thing from two years ago, when the Warriors got to the brink of acquiring him for a huge bundle of players, and even started talking contract extension with KG… Before it fell apart that night. This one ...

Please Tell Me He Didn’t Do It
ibabuzz.com 5/23/2009 — I must say I was blown away by my collegue’s post about Raymond Ridder’s foray into the blogosphere. Reason No. 1: If you let members of the organization tell it, they don’t read the media or the blogs out there. They spend more ...

RUMOR: Warriors targeting Chris Bosh
goldenstateofmind.com 5/20/2009 — GSoM friend Tim Kawakami 's got the scoop [ Talking Points ]: But, if the Warriors don't experience a total lottery luck-out, then [Larry] Riley's mandate is to go get a proven, vital young veteran. The main targeted veteran, I'm told, is ...

Golden State Warriors: The State Of The Post "Golden Era" and It's Needs — Bleacher Report - NBA 6/18/2009
The NBA draft is coming up and the Golden State Warriors back offices need to set this team on a path, and with the view of last season and the events in it... it won't be easy, that's why sometimes we here at Bleacher Report write these ...

Oh Yeah, I Remember that Guy: The NBA's Greatest One-Hit Wonders — Bleacher Report - NBA 6/20/2009
In the NBA, just like the music industry, people enjoy their "five minutes of fame" and then disappear into the background. This past season, Golden State Warriors undrafted rookie Anthony Morrow scored 37 points in his first NBA start giving fans in ...

What If...10 Defining Moments in Warriors Draft History — Bleacher Report - NBA 6/21/2009
If you’re a Golden State Warriors fan, two things about you must be true -- You have a high tolerance for pain, and can sustain yourself on a steady diet of hope for the future. As we squirm with anticipation for the upcoming 2009 NBA Draft, we ...

Are the Golden State Warriors Putting Too Much Hope in Monta Ellis? — Bleacher Report - NBA 6/22/2009
The Golden State Warriors have lost a few fans in the last two years. That's what happens when you go from being an exciting, fast-paced team that pulled off one of the biggest upsets of NBA playoff history to a dull, no-hope team dwelling in the ...

Point-Guard-Gate: Monta's Power Grab Or Draft Ruse? — Bleacher Report - NBA 6/22/2009
In normal circumstances, teams that are looking forward to the draft don't have to worry about players they signed to a long extension less than a year earlier. But when the team is the Golden State Warriors and the player is Monta Ellis, all bets ...