After the Golden State Warriors signed Jason Richardson and Troy Murphy to extensions last week, the cap space that many expected to become available in this coming off-season quickly disappeared.
Clifford Robinson's $5.3 million contract and Dale Davis' $10.1 million deal expire at season's end. That $15.4 million coming off the books was the reason the Warriors were going to able to get far enough under the cap to pursue a star free agent next summer.
That cap space is now unavailable but there are a host of teams that would trade quality talent for that mobility, as the Atlanta Hawks did last season with Rasheed Wallace.
Boston's Paul Pierce and New Orleans' Baron Davis are two players who might be available.
The most intriguing is Jason Kidd who grew up just a few minutes away from the Oakland Colisium. He even played most of his high school and college games in that arena. Kidd has an albatross of a contract and has made it clear that he would like to be moved after he returns from injury.