Why the Warriors are a 'mess' entering this season

Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor shares his thoughts on Golden State’s ongoing negotiations with Jonathan Kuminga and how they’re weighing over the team entering the upcoming season. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I would love to get Stephen Curry’s unfiltered thoughts on this whole mess the Warriors find themselves in.

I would love to know what Steph really thinks about Jonathan Kuminga, who’s proven nothing in his career.

Holding out the way he is.

I’d love to know what he thinks about the Warriors completely botching this whole mess and not having these guys signed to actual contracts, when it’s September 29th, it’s media day.

I’d love to know what Stephen Curry really thinks about all this.

I’d love to know what Jimmy Butler, who’s burned bridges with every team he’s ever been on, really thinks about the situation he finds himself in, with his franchise that can’t seem to get things straight.

With this middling player and Jonathan Kuminga and having yet to be able to re-sign their veterans and get things going this offseason as training camp has started.

I’d love to know what these guys really, really think about this situation because from the outside looking in, I think it’s a mess.

Every executive I text with kind of chuckles about it, where they look at this great dynasty that has collapsed as they’ve lost some key figures from the organization.

Look, I, I, I, last year I said the Warriors considered trading Stephen Curry and Draymond Green for a haul rather than going out and getting Jimmy Butler.

I wouldn’t go that far yet.

I wouldn’t say that yet today.

Because they got Butler for cheap.

I love the Al Horford fit with the Warriors.

Al Horford, he might be old, but he is still a damn good basketball player.

He is still a great shooter, a great facilitator, still a great defensive player.

I mean, Al Horford is doing this in his late 30s, but I, I can’t fathom it after he looked completely washed up over a half decade ago when he had a single year with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Horford’s still good, Butler’s still good, Draymond’s still good, Steph is still great.

They have something there, they’re just missing, they’re missing one more guy, and I think for the Warriors, that’s the reason why they’re making things so difficult here with Kuminga.

So I’m not ready to say that again.

With Stephen or Draymond yet, but I wouldn’t rule it out, it, it becoming a thing mid-season again, at least from my perspective, because this Warriors team, I’m not seeing it.

I’m not seeing it until we see either Kinga take a leap, or Kinga get flipped for something else.

And if that doesn’t happen, this team is not competing for finals in the Western Conference.

It is just not realistic.

Why the Warriors are a ‘mess’ entering this season

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