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After a summer in which the Golden State Warriors<\/a> pretty much stood pat on a roster that was knocked around by injuries and wound up with a 37-win record and an ouster in the play-in tournament, frustration among the team\u2019s fan base is running high. The only discernable plan for the team was to try to lure LeBron James<\/a> in free agency, a plan that the team apparently felt had little hope of succeeding all along. Stephen Curry<\/a> will turn 38 next season, and could be a free agent next summer.<\/p>\n The front office, though, is not showing much urgency in putting together a roster.<\/p>\n The Warriors have tools to be more active on the trade market, but the issue is, using those tools is unlikely to make the team good enough to truly contend in the West, especially with an array of health questions on the roster\u2013both Jimmy Butler<\/a> and Moses Moody<\/a> are rehabbing knee surgeries, Curry himself is still getting over a late-season bout of runner\u2019s knee and Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> is iffy every game.<\/p>\n But there is a timeline, it seems, of what the Warriors might see that would inspire them to pull the trigger on a big move.<\/p>\n Stephen Curry Must Stay Healthy<\/p>\n That\u2019s according to Anthony Slater, the Warriors\u2019 beat writer for ESPN<\/a>. Speaking on 95.7 The Game in San Francisco on Thursday morning, he said that it is wrong to assume Golden State will not trade picks to bolster the team now. But trading picks for a team that can\u2019t stay healthy would be foolish.<\/p>\n If the Warriors\u2019 young players show promise and the veterans get and stay healthy, a move could be coming.<\/p>\n Said Slater<\/a>: \u201cFor Stephen Curry, moving forward, I think what is most important for him is to make sure that knee and body are as right as possible as he enters his age 38 season. Try to be as healthy and productive early on as possible. I think collectively as a team, Steve Kerr mentioned, there is some belief they can have some internal growth and maybe even surprise early in the season.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think the better they are in the first couple months, the healthier Steph Curry looks, the more likely it is that this front office can be convinced to trade to try and upgrade the roster.\u201d<\/p>\n Warriors Could Be Active at Trade Deadline<\/p>\n Now, all of that might sound too hope-based to persuade Warriors fans out of their state of frustration. It requires the Warriors to get lucky with some young players, stay healthy and get their current guys back.<\/p>\n But, Slater said, that is pretty much how Curry sees things. The front office will let the season unfold, and perhaps a trade will follow.<\/p>\n Slater continued: \u201cAs Jimmy Butler gets closer and closer to a return, as Moses Moody gets closer and closer to a return, as they have a lot of expiring deals and they still have some tools out there, maybe Yaxel Lendeborg<\/a> takes a leap\u2014that is the theory, if you\u2019re Steph and you want to take the optimistic approach. And Steph is an optimistic guy. What can he do? If you get closer to the deadline, maybe you do something, maybe you don\u2019t, but I think they will be further motivated if the team looks like they\u2019re not just fading into the abyss.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSean Deveney<\/a> is a veteran sports reporter covering the NBA, NFL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has written for Heavy since 2019 and has more than two decades of experience covering the NBA, including 17 years as the lead NBA reporter for the Sporting News. Deveney is the author of 7 nonfiction books, including “Fun City,” “Before Wrigley became Wrigley,” and “Facing Michael Jordan.” More about Sean Deveney<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors After a summer in which the Golden State Warriors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,6,255],"class_list":["post-799874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golden-state-warriors","tag-basketball","tag-golden-state","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-goldenstate","tag-goldenstatewarriors","tag-nba","tag-warriors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117011228128019372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}