General manager Kiki Vandeweghe said Wednesday the Nuggets have offered a contract to Golden State free agent Earl Boykins. Vandeweghe would not discuss the terms of the deal.
Boykins' agent, Mark Termini, said Golden State and some playoff-caliber teams were interested in the point guard.
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Warriors point guard Gilbert Arenas, who is on his way to becoming a Washington Wizard, said one of the main reasons he didn't re-sign with Golden State was because he felt disrespected by owner Chris Cohan.
Arenas told radio station KNBR on Monday that his decision to a sign an offer sheet with the Wizards "came down to trust. ... I just couldn't do it."
Arenas, who was a restricted free agent, signed a six-year, $65 million offer sheet with the Wizards late last week. The Warriors have 15 days to decide whether or not to match the offer. However, for the Warriors to match, they would have to shed approximately $18 million from their payroll. General manager Garry St. Jean has all but conceded the Warriors won't be able to do so.
Arenas, the NBA's Most Improved Player, said he would have re-signed with the Warriors at a reduced price had Cohan given him an assurance he would receive a bigger payday down the line. The Warriors, constrained by the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, could offer Arenas a salary starting at approximately $4.9 million. He will make approximately $8.5 million in 2003-04 with Washington.
Had Arenas signed a one-year contract with the Warriors, he would have been eligible to sign the maximum allowable contract with them next summer.
"I don't know the guy (Cohan) personally," Arenas said. "I only know St. Jean and (executive director of basketball operations) Otis Smith. They can tell me everything I want to hear but if the guy who I do not know can tell me in my face the deal will get done no matter how I play ... that's all I wanted to hear."
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In the bare condo in Parma that is home for now, Steve Logan waits for his agent to call. He sips juice from a tall, plastic cup. He paces into the kitchen, then shuffles back into the living room, which is decorated like a dorm room. The TV babbles the day's news. Still, he waits.
Logan isn't doing anything without his agent's permission. No way. Too many nights have been sleepless, too many opportunities have been wasted. Everything is by the book for Logan now. He won't sign a contract without triple-checking the big words, and he sure isn't going to tell the details of what happened in the last year to the once-promising, still-hopeful-of-an-NBA-career point guard if he doesn't have specific permission from the guy who currently is running his life.
Only when the cell phone rings and he hears the go-ahead from Aaron Goodwin does Logan exhale, sit down on the single, hotel-style sofa in the otherwise-empty living room and begin to tell how he ended up the property of the Golden State Warriors but remains a player without a team.
Logan - who grew up on Cleveland's East Side, sparked St. Edward to a state title in 1998 and was an All-American at Cincinnati - has been on the brink of the NBA for the past year. On the brink of playing in the league but nowhere near the game, that is. He was the first pick in the second round of the 2002 draft, selected by the Warriors and labeled one of the steals of the draft, a projected backup point guard on a young team thirsty for talent.
But he hasn't played in a basketball game that matters since the 2002 NCAA Tournament.
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Warriors Jul 2003 Archive
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Denver Post | Jul 27, 2003
The Nuggets are expected to offer a contract to Golden State Warriors free agent Earl Boykins by early this week.
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Rocky Mountain News | Jul 23, 2003
Golden State's 5-foot-5 free-agent point guard Earl Boykins will visit Denver today.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 23, 2003
Before the Warriors had received the signed offer sheet confirming Gilbert Arenas' intention to leave them for Washington, they already had lined up a replacement.
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Washington Post | Jul 23, 2003
Golden State Warriors guard Gilbert Arenas yesterday signed a six-year, $64 million offer sheet with the Washington Wizards, likely landing the team its point guard of the future and, for the first time in years, a young prospect from another team with all-star potential.
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ESPN | Jul 22, 2003
The Golden State Warriors wasted no time in finding a replacement for Gilbert Arenas.
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Mercury News Staff Columnist Skip Bayless | Jul 22, 2003
From start to Monday night's finish, the kid who wore No.
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ESPN | Jul 22, 2003
Gilbert Arenas, who is the most coveted player left on the free-agent market, signed a six-year offer sheet with the Washington Wizards on Monday night believed to be in the $65 million range.
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Washington Post | Jul 21, 2003
The Washington Wizards made their pitch to Golden State Warriors free agent guard Gilbert Arenas knowing they would have competition for his services.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 21, 2003
Gilbert Arenas reportedly has an opportunity to obtain a six-year, $60 million contract and to remain on the West Coast as well.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 21, 2003
A bidding war the Jazz can't possibly win has developed over free-agent guard Gilbert Arenas of Golden State.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 20, 2003
And on the fourth day of the NBA free-agent signing period, nothing happened.
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Washington Post | Jul 20, 2003
The Washington Wizards, who just days ago appeared to be the front-runners for Golden State Warriors free agent Gilbert Arenas, now have stiff competition from the Los Angeles Clippers, who made Arenas an offer tonight, according to a source close to the situation.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 19, 2003
If the Warriors can't retain free-agent point guard Gilbert Arenas, they'll look outside their current roster for a replacement, and it's expected to be Speedy.
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L.A. Daily News | Jul 19, 2003
The Clippers met with Golden State Warriors guard Gilbert Arenas and are considering making an offer to the unrestricted free agent, a Clippers executive confirmed Friday.
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Daytona Beach News-Journal | Jul 19, 2003
Darrell Armstrong has enjoyed a productive run with the Orlando Magic.
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Washington Post | Jul 19, 2003
The Washington Wizards continued talking with representatives for Golden State Warriors free agent Gilbert Arenas today as the guard also began considering offers from other teams.
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Contra Costa Times | Jul 18, 2003
There still is hope for the Warriors.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 18, 2003
The Washington Wizards gave Gilbert Arenas the royal treatment Thursday, presenting him with a poster and a bobblehead in his likeness and taking him to owner Abe Pollin's suite to watch a sold-out WNBA game at the MCI Center.
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Washington Times | Jul 18, 2003
The Washington Wizards moved closer to making Gilbert Arenas their point guard of the future yesterday, offering him a multi-year contract with a salary believed to be between $6 million and $7 million in the first year.
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| Jul 17, 2003
On the first day NBA teams could sign free agents, the Warriors did not lure back point guard Gilbert Arenas or lose him to another club.
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Washington Post | Jul 17, 2003
Golden State Warriors free agent point guard Gilbert Arenas, the principle player the Washington Wizards have targeted to acquire this offseason, met with President of Basketball Operations Ernie Grunfeld and Coach Eddie Jordan tonight in Washington and could come to terms on a multiyear contract as soon as Thursday, a source close to the negotiations said.
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Washington Times | Jul 16, 2003
The spur of the moment cross-country trip by general manger Ernie Grunfeld, coach Eddie Jordan and assistant Phil Hubbard appears to have moved the Washington Wizards to the front of the line in the Gilbert Arenas sweepstakes.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 15, 2003
The NBA's free-agent sweepstakes is a lot like the basketball season itself, the Jazz are learning: Some you win, some you lose, and some go into overtime.
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Denver Post | Jul 15, 2003
While on a plane to Los Angeles on Monday morning, Golden State Warriors free-agent guard Gilbert Arenas read that someone else will be the Nuggets' next point guard.
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Washington Post | Jul 15, 2003
The Washington Wizards, in a move to make a major play in free agency, today met with Golden State Warriors free agent guard Gilbert Arenas -- last season's most improved player -- according to sources with knowledge of the talks.
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Cincinnati Enquirer | Jul 13, 2003
Steve Logan is finally in a Golden State Warriors uniform, though he is not on the team's regular-season roster.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 13, 2003
A longtime friend of Andre Miller's said earlier this month that it would take "something strange, something out of the blue" to prevent the point guard from playing for the Utah Jazz next season.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 13, 2003
As Gilbert Arenas' agent tours the NBA in search of the highest bidder, the Warriors can do no more than sit at home with only the mid-level exception at their disposal.
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Deseret Morning News | Jul 12, 2003
Scratch Corey Maggette and, apparently, Gilbert Arenas from Utah's wish list.
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Rocky Mountain News | Jul 11, 2003
Gilbert or Andre.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Jul 9, 2003
Two point guards.
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| Jul 8, 2003
Two point guards.
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Contra Costa Times | Jul 5, 2003
Steve Logan, whom the Warriors selected in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft, worked out for team officials Monday morning.
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Oakland Tribune | Jul 3, 2003
The Golden State Warriors hired Jim Boylen and David Fizdale on Wednesday as assistant coaches for Eric Musselman's revamped staff.
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Denver Post Columnist Mark Kiszla | Jul 3, 2003
Rich and desperate is no way to go through life, unless your lifelong dream is to be poor and look stupid.
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Denver Post | Jul 3, 2003
Since trading Nick Van Exel on Feb.
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Washington Times | Jul 3, 2003
The Washington Wizards lost Patrick Ewing from their coaching staff yesterday but wasted little time replacing him when coach Eddie Jordan named Phil Hubbard to take his place.
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| Jul 2, 2003
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Contra Costa Times | Jul 2, 2003
Perhaps Warriors general manager Garry St.
