Warriors Unlikely to Sign Landry, Kirilenko

More bad news for Bay Area sports fans (Hanley Ramirez was traded to the Dodgers last night). 


It appears that the Golden State Warriors are going to miss out on the two free agents that they are currently pursuing - Carl Landry and Andrei Kirilenko, and all of it has to do with money.


Marcus Thompson reports:

It's looking like Warriors may miss out on Andrei Kirilenko and Carl Landry. Kirilenko wants $8M per in a new deal, according to Yahoo! Sports. That rules out GSW. Since Kirilenko played overseas last season, a sign-and-trade is not an option. Even if the Warriors were willing to go over luxury tax threshold and offer Kirilenko the mid-level exception, that still wouldn't be enough, not with T'wolves offering a deal starting at $8M. Landry, it seems, is going to get a larger offer elsewhere. (Charlotte can offer more than GSW.) He would like to play for the Warriors, but it's sounds unlikely he'd take less money to play for GSW. Landry's camp, no doubt, thinks the Warriors should go into the tax zone to give Landry closer to the midlevel. And the Warriors' refusal to do so, at this point, isn't exactly a vote of confidence for Landry.

 It's a bit bewildering as to why Joe Lacob isn't willing to go into the luxury tax. After all, he did pay a record $450 million to own the team, so a couple million of tax for a quality player shouldn't hurt too much.

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