We Just Got Better

Multiple reports are swirling today that Al Harrington will be traded to his no.1 option, the New York Knicks. Who are we getting in return? Not Eddy Curry. Not Malik Rose. Nope, we're getting their leading scorer:

Jamal Crawford

Typically in any sport, when a player demands a trade his value goes down because teams believe they can get him for cheaper than they could've previously when the player was fine playing with the team (See how TO got traded for a bag of peanuts from the 49ers to the Eagles of a few years ago). It happens in the NBA all the time too. If a player is disgruntled they won't play 100% for you (and Harrington's fake injury is a testament to this), and so you are forced to look to trade them immediately. This isn't exactly buying low and selling high.

And with all that, somehow the Warriors front office got New York to be desperate enough to give us their leading scorer, and their most consistent player the last 2 years. First New York started by low-balling us with Eddy Curry, and there even reports of Malik Rose (who wouldn't have been bad since he's a valuable expiring contract), but somehow the Warriors front office managed to get Crawford off their hands. Great

So what does it mean?

Well, we traded a disgruntled guy who's been pissing everyone off since the season started, and who I might add took a ton of shots in the 5 games he was in to try to increase his trade value and uhhh... It didn't work, for 20ppg combo guard in Jamal Crawford. Although he's not the traditional PG we were looking for, and darn it we have a million tweeners on this team as it is, the fact that we got a legit NBA player who can contribute right away IMMEDIATELY makes this team better. It also works out in the future considering he's bigger and hopefully will play well with Ellis by his side, and if nothing else he'll be great trade bait when he's in the final year of his contract in 2010-2011. But why look that far? The Warriors have been playing well of late, Harrington hasn't even been playing, and we just added another scorer/distributor to the lineup. WOW

Can't wait to see what the lineup is when he gets there. Here's my guess:
1.Crawford
2.Morrow
3.Jackson
4.Maggette
5. Biedrins

The return of the small ball... and I can't wait till' Ellis gets back

I'm sure everyone's got an opinion of this so please feel free to share