Mully made some good trades. Dale Davis and Speedy Claxton for Baron Davis. Murphy, Dunleavy Jr., Diogu for Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, Sarunas Jasikevicius and Josh Powell. Traded a first rounder for Marcus Williams which was an epic fail.
He's got a poor draft record. Not sure if Dunleavy was his pick at #3 overall but he was a big Dunny fan. Took Pietrus at 11, Biedrins at 11. Then took Ike at 9 and Monta at #42 overall. Then he took Patrick O'Bryant at 9, Brandan Wright (traded J-Rich for BWright essentially), Belinelli at 18, and Anthony Randolph at 14. I left out all the other second rounders he whiffed on. Monta was a hell of a pick and he deserves credit because he personally went to Jackson, MS to watch Monta play and its an area where many scouts/GMs refused to go. Biedrins was a decent pick at 11. Pietrus is meh. Dun at #3 sucks. Ike, BW, POB were huge busts. Jury is still out on AR and Belinelli. He deserves at least some credit for getting Azubuike, CJ Watson, and Matt Barnes from D-League/obscurity.
He doled out a LOT of big, long, horrible contracts right when he started- Derek Fisher, Adonal Foyle, MD Jr., Murphy, J-Rich, etc.- but by the end of his tenure he seemed to realize that this was a mistake and was more careful with his money. Although he did want to give Baron a big extension that ownership denied. He negotiated smarter with Barnes and S. Jackson and didn't give in to them even after the team did very well. Gave a terrible contract to Maggette though and tried to sign Brand and Arenas to a max deal that offseason but thankfully they jilted us. Good signings include Turiaf and Azubuike's contracts and Barnes' one year deal after we beat the Mavs.
