NBA: Warriors remain an NBA disaster zone

How many Golden State Warriors stalwarts does it take to screw up a media day?

Two, it turns out: One to continue his credible campaign to get the heck out of town and one to scoff at the franchise's latest bit of strategic make believe.

So much for all positive vibes heading into the start of training camp today! Wait, the Warriors almost never have any.

Time to start dumping popular players once again, apparently.

You see, Stephen Jackson and Monta Ellis weren't just making random observations about their positions in the Warriors' solar system.

This was bigger than Jackson's refusal to back off of his trade request and Ellis flatly stating that he could not play alongside prized rookie Stephen Curry, though those things also happened at Monday's media day.

"Us together? No," Ellis said of the potential Curry teaming, in the most concise dissection of egregious Warriors hype ever uttered.

Jackson and Ellis, good friends, were making a key point: They're both 10 times smarter than team management and they don't care if any of us know it.

That's pretty heavy. It's also desperately necessary if the incompetent reign of owner Chris Cohan and team president Robert Rowell is ever going to be fully exposed.

"As you know," Jackson said with a shrug, "this organization's unpredictable. Very unpredictable."

Oh, really?

Unpredictable enough for Rowell to hand Jackson a three-year, $28 million extension last year, even though Jackson was 30 at the time and had two years left on his deal.

On Monday, Jackson declined to repeat his specific trade request for fear of another NBA fine; but he's basically saying that he can't be blamed for Rowell's foolishness.

Jackson is 100 percent correct, because he's smarter than Rowell.

"Well, who's going to turn down that money?" Jackson said. "I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense."

Plus, Jackson noted that Don Nelson offered to try to trade him last season. Only a fool organization would be shocked by Jackson's desire to move now that he has watched the piece by piece dismantling the 2007 playoff squad.