Young forward Jonathan Kuminga is one obvious piece to a potential deal, but his contract ($23.4 million this season) still is much smaller than what the biggest names that could be on the trade market are making, like Antetokounmpo ($54.1M) and Davis ($54.1M), which means Golden State likely would have to include one of its other veteran players, like forwards Draymond Green ($25.89M) or Jimmy Butler ($54.1M), to make the money work.
However, the Warriors are "staunchly" against the notion of including either Green or Butler in a potential trade, The Athletic's Sam Amick reported in a story published Wednesday, citing team sources.
Golden State's brass, from coach Steve Kerr to general manager Mike Dunleavy, repeatedly have expressed confidence in the team's veteran core of Butler, Green and Steph Curry, so any seismic deal that breaks that trio up, in addition to the financial complications a potential trade might present, seems unlikely.
However, things certainly can change between now and Feb. 5, and if the Warriors end up sliding further down the Western Conference standings, Dunleavy and Co. might be inclined to really shake things up in order to give Curry a chance at winning a fifth championship.
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Good. We no longer have time to replace a star and evaluate if the fit works and buy from there. Jimmy fits great and has been great. Use the JK and Hield deals, and Moses if needed and let’s see what we can get (obviously with picks).
Eighth seed with a pretty “easy” schedule til the deadline. Real chance to make some ground on the teams behind and potentially move up. Then buy at the deadline or even after the 15th. Huge month of January.
Dray’s obviously in a rough patch but irrespective of that.. the big three’s advanced metrics are still elite.
I think the bench/ role players need this work on the trade market. The middle of the rotation are criminally inconsistent. Get me 8 guys we can trust for a playoff run.
34 m’s between Jk and Hield. Lots of paths to take. Lacob and Mike have no excuse this deadline in terms of getting better, even if it’s not that much better.
Go Dubs!
So MPJ
I keep getting downvoted for this but I don’t believe Draymond running the offense will lead to success and he can’t do anything else on offense. I could be wrong but no team in the playoffs is not going to exploit the shit out of that.
Could they just be saying this so the team chemistry stays good, and then if the right deal comes along then trade Draymond?
If not we start to limit our potential trade options, where it sounds like MPJ is top of the list.
Shrek Green
AKA Steph and Kerr are staunchly against it.
Not a serious team.
JK and Buddy for MPJ!
Ok so the title window is closed. Thanks for letting me know.
If we’re not trading Draymond as declined as he is, that lets me know titles don’t matter anymore to this team
Dope, we will staunchly be sub 500 and waste Steph’s twilight years.
So window is officially closed Kerr and the front office, Steph arent serious about winning anything. Another play-in season incoming but probably first round exit this time around.
Good. drive the price up if one does go.
Committed to losing
funny how it’s only the last maybe 6 weeks that this sub had moved on from “trade podz” to “trade dray” and yall will be equally as sure of yourselves. guarantee dray comes alive again. you seem to forget all of steph’s slumps.
Give the Nets whoever else for MPJ & Nic Claxton
good smoke screen maybe we won’t have to give up picks
while I’m happy they’re not falling the Anthony Davis trap(he’s about as likely to be healthy as Kuminga is to get playing time) this line of thinking is EXACTLY why we missed the playoffs in 2024(crammed a washed Klay into every lineup possible) and Draymond’s offensive game is so bad to where he’s not even worth it on defense anymore if you want to win you have to take risks
Is this posturing or their real stance?
I know I speak for a minority here but I’m glad we’re keeping him cus he’s our draymond. Loyalty> OFRTG
I don’t care if they trade Draymond as long as it’s not for AD but for players that can actually play. Trading for AD while paying him $54M until the end of next season with a player option he can also use for another year to make it $64M will be the worst trade this team will ever see. It’s 2026, that promise of AD playing to his best and being available for when the team needs him is long gone.
Well they’re fucking dumb then
Der
Did we not just win 5 of our last 6 games? Wasn’t Draymond great in most of these? We just need to move JK for a frontcourt player who can play with Steph, and we’re good.
I’m getting kinda scared for some other players I’ve grown attached to. GP. Tjd.😬
The best lineup in theory by this team has to be Curry/Melton/Butler/Green/Horford and I dont think they have played together at all. It should have decent spacing, great defense, and great bball iq.
The hopium is that once the injury stuff clears up, they can test this. Still, there should be a better dude than Melton since he hasnt shot the three well hence the spacing is still stupid