Will the Warriors' trade deadline plans involve trading Steph Curry?
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by NBA contributing writer Tom Haberstroh to discuss whether the Golden State Warriors would consider trading Stephen Curry. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
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Warriors are trying to win right now, and the Dallas Mavericks.
With Kyrie Irving coming back, I'm not so sure they're in the same boat.
I do think the Golden State Warriors have a lot on the table right now.
A lot of questions, and the first I would ask is one to Stephen Curry.
What do you want to do?
Do you want to stay in Golden State?
This, wait this out with Jimmy Butler, or do you want to contend for a championship?
Somewhere else and make a late-career change?
He obviously would want to be Dirk.
Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan for the Warriors, but this is a guy playing at a level of 30 points per game every night.
He can still bring it.
And so the question for me is, where do the Warriors go from here?
And I think it all starts with number 30.
Do you think there's a chance that Steph Curry playing elsewhere in the future?
Oh, yeah!
I think there's a real chance.
I mean, Steph Curry.
We've seen how much he enjoys playing with LeBron James and, Uh, Team USA, and with, you know, of course, the All-Star Games of, of years past.
I would love to see it personally.
Steph and LeBron playing together on the same team in the NBA.
And the Lakers right now are sputtering, so you could see a scenario in which Stephen Curry and LeBron say, "Hey, how do we link up?"
Now that Jimmy Butler's hurt, This is kind of an interesting situation for Steph Curry because, Of course, Jimmy Butler, with him in uniform, they were a title contender.
46-22 with Jimmy Butler in uniform, which equates to a 55-win team over the last two years.
They've basically been playing at No.
2.
Seed, No.
3 seed, level with Jimmy Butler.
But without him, Steph Curry has to realize they're 2-5 without Jimmy Butler in uniform over last two seasons.
That's a 23-win team equivalent.
So he has to be real pragmatic about the situation and talk to potentially LeBron.
James, or talk to somebody, uh, I don't know, with the Charlotte Hornets.
The Charlotte Hornets just retired No.
30.
His father's, A number is going up in the rafters.
Dell Curry.
They just announced that they're going to retire that number.
So it'd be a little, uh... An amazing story of Steph Curry potentially Coming back home to where he grew up in Charlotte, just with a different # Or maybe that 30, they delay that, that rafter-raising of his jersey.
Little after, uh, Steph Curry comes.
But I do think that Steph Curry, The door was always open to him going elsewhere, but it was only open a crack.
Now, Jimmy Butler's injury certainly opens it up a little bit more than that.
And I still think he's gonna be a Warrior for life.
But if he says, "Look, this has run its course here."
I want to compete at the highest level.
Where can I do that?
I think that becomes a lot more real right now.
