Warriors are building towards a disappointing end for Stephen Curry's career
Yahoo Sports NBA contributing writer Tom Haberstroh and senior NBA writer Dan Devine recap the Warriors offseason and come away with one conclusion -- Golden State has let Stephen Curry down. Check out the full conversation on "The Big Number" and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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As of now, there is no real addition to the team.
Draymond Green returning on a one-year deal, at $27.7 million, according to the Mark Stein at the Stein Line Substack, confirming, ESPN report from Anthony Slater that he is, you know, whether he has an implied no-trade clause or a real no-trade clause, whatever, Draymond Green is back, and they just seem like, Dan, like they don't really have much to offer Stephen Curry in a championship run, and I'm sure it's caught your eye.
Very much so.
This graphic from our, our pal Automatic NBA on, on Twitter is, is wild.
You see the logos of all 30 NBA teams, and next to them you see the faces, if you're watching on YouTube, of all of the players they've added in tra- in trade or free agency this off-season.
Only one team hasn't added anybody, and it is the Golden State Warriors.
There are zero faces next to that Warriors logo, and that is a pretty stark depiction of the stasis in which this organization is now stuck, right?
And, you know, there's, you know, reporting all over the place about this, right?
And, you know, you're right, you, you noted Steve Kerr saying, "I never really thought we were in, we were in it," in the aftermath of LeBron signing in Philly, and then the discussion being that the Jaylen Brown trade made that a more enticing destination for LeBron.
It sort of invited the question of like, why did the Warriors not try to go get that done at the trade deadline?
And there's been some reporting that, like, maybe they could have or they had some discussions about that, but then they didn't get all the way across the finish line, whether it's because the asking price in Boston at that point was a lot higher than it wound up being, in the final analysis, or if there was, I think Logan Murdock at the, at The Ringer had reported that it was just, like, some lack of consensus about whether Jaylen Brown might be, like, the bridge guy to get them to the next era.
The next era, that's the point to discuss here.
We are thinking, in Golden State, an awful lot about what comes next after Stephen Curry, and that has kind of been the case over the last handful of years, even as Stephen Curry is still an All-NBA player, is still the player who delivered that franchise, is still the player who is capable of, when he is on the floor, winning a playoff series, getting you to a championship a few years ago, being in a situation where he can be the best player on the floor against damn near anybody, you know?
Right?
Even, you know, in a situation like the play-in tournament last year, we saw him do that against Kawhi Leonard in the, in the Clippers in that first k- playoff, play-in game win where Steve Kerr had said, "You know, for a night it felt like we were us again."
And the, the problem in Golden State right now is way too few nights on which they feel like they used to.
