With just over a week until the Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline, teams around the league are weighing their options and making decisions — but will the Warriors make a move?
While it's certainly possible that Golden State signs with another organization, Dub Nation may not want to get its hopes up that the struggling Warriors will make an impactful trade to alleviate their recent woes.
The Warriors' odds and internal expectations for such a move to be a “meaningful change in direction” have steadily declined over the last month, The Athletic's Anthony Slater said Tuesday in a team official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This was reported as a person's story.
According to Slater, Golden State was on the “periphery” of the Pascal Siakam trade market until the Toronto Raptors traded Pascal Siakam to the Indiana Pacers — and now the Warriors are essentially The trade is said to be at an impasse.
“This has only pushed the Warriors further into what appears to be a trade deadline trap without a clear path to upward or downward mobility,” Slater wrote. “They’re in no man’s land in the NBA.”
Golden State traded away young players like Jordan Poole and Patrick Baldwin Jr. to acquire 19th-year guard Chris Paul and added court-savvy veterans like Dario Šarić in free agency. He entered the 2023-24 NBA season in win-now mode. .
The idea was to surround Stephen Curry and the rest of Golden State's core with a team that could take advantage of the current opportunity, but at the halfway point of the season, the Warriors were in 12th place in the Western Conference with a record of 19 wins and 24 losses. are doing.
If there's no player on the market worth that price, perhaps young star Jonathan Kuminga or Andrew Wiggins, who seems to be finding his groove, general manager Mike Dunleavy will. I don't know yet. In fact, Junior and the Warriors could end up making an impactful trade.
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