Mookie Blaylock. Chris Mullin. Adonal Foyle. Chris Porter. The names are there, but the games are not. Whether they be has-beens, or never-was's, former stars like Mookie Blaylock and Chris Mullin, or dissapointing youngsters like Adonal Foyle and Chris Porter, this current group of Warriors is shaping up to be the worst team in the history of the NBA. Twenty-six games into the season and the Warriors have come up victorious in none of them. Twenty-six games and twenty-six losses. Its hard to imagine that only a decade ago, this team had a pair of Dream Teamers in Chris Mullin and Tim Hardaway. How did this team fall so fast? Lets take a look. All good things must come to an end. With the era of dominance by Mullin and Hardaway over, the Warriors record suffered and they were looking to rebuild. With the third pick in the draft, the Warriors selected Penny Hardaway, the standout guard from Memphis St. and traded him along with three future first round draft picks to Orlando for Chris Webber. A high price to pay, but to get a talent like Webber, worth it. But Webber and Coach Don Nelson clashed and Webber was traded to Washington in a one-sided deal. Time to start over. Perhaps things would get better. They wouldn't, whether it was passing up Kobe Bryant and Tracy McGrady in successive years to draft Todd Fuller and Adonal Foyle, or trading Latrell Sprewell for a pittance after he attacked PJ Carleisemo, the Warriors were mired in failure. But then, things began to look up. They drafted Vonteego Cummings late in the first round, and while a project, he might be a decent NBA starter eventually. They traded for explosive scorer Larry Hughes, and made a draft day deal to get Antwan Jamison, a sure-fire star. They then acquired Danny Fortson, monster rebounder and Erick Dampier, good defensively, albeit injury prone. Thats the starting line-up for the next 8-9 years, isn't it? A sure-fire playoff team, don't you think? No, not with the Warriors. After spending one injury prone year together, those five players are now scattered among the teams in the NBA like dust in the wind. Antwan Jamison, the star forward, is now starring for the small-ball Rockets. Larry Hughes, explosive scorer, is now the back-up guard for the Utah Jazz. Danny Fortson played for the champion Mavs last year, and now starts for the Vancouver Grizzlies at center. Even Vonteego Cummings(Chicago) and Erick Dampier(Los Angeles Clippers) have been moved in bad deals. Well, bad for the Warriors, good for them. The Warriors, with a once promising future, are now reduced to hoping that, over a quarter of the way into the season, they can scrounge up their first win of the season. Often you can look at the future of an NBA team and wonder, there are so many variables, it impossible to make an accurate guess as to how good this team might be in the future. Not so with the Warriors. With an incompetent management with a propensity for making bad deals, little talent on the roster and what talent there is almost constantly injured, and several future draft picks in hock from past stupid deals, the future of the Warriors contains nothing but heartache. For those few steadfast fans that remain of this moribund franchise, I salute you, and I pity you. Fans like you deserve better. We all deserve better. ------------------ Charles Barkely on the Raptors defeating the Knicks in Round 1 :"I think it was the Lord. The Lord was with the Raptors. You know the Knicks like to talk so much about religion, but I think the Lord was a Raptor fan."
Great article, Puedlfor. ------------------ Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Great story Puedlfor, could've used a vampire though. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams and Lisa Malosky fan club. atheistalliance.org
We have to kill the boy! Grandpa, how'd you know Bart was a vampire? He's a vampire? AHHHHHhHHH! ------------------ Headley: Qualifications? Cowboy: Rape, murder, arson and rape. Headley: You said rape twice. Cowboy: I like rape.
