Old_Blue wrote:I have come to the conclusion that certain "fans" have a secret agenda to destroy the team. That, or extremely poor judgement. Seriously, no other team was going to trade for Klay's bloated contract without requiring that the Dubs add draft capital. And, even then, the return was likely to be paltry. So, those of you who were demanding that Klay be traded were also essentially demanding that the team squander a draft pick or two in exchange for some other team's bad contract.
Destroy the team by not trying to be good now or destroy the team by trading draft picks?
Since the 3 point shot only the Lakers and Pistons have won chamionships with more than one core in less than 20 years. Bad boy Pistons and Ben Wallace Pistons had no players in common. Kobe Lakers and LeBron Lakers had no players in common.
Spurs are the closest to a 3rd team but all their championships had Duncan.
Celtics are knocking on the door of winning a championship in less than 20 years since 2008.
Do not expect the Warriors to win a championship in the next 20 years. When Curry retires we should probably trade Kuminga so that Kuminga does not stop us from getting multiple lottery picks. Kuminga making us mediocre instead of horrible may delay our rebuikding.
Getting Curry at 7th pick was lucky. Normally Curry level players are not available at the 7th pick.
Kuminga can not win a championship without another great player. How are you supposed to get a great player to go with Kuminga.
Grasp at a longshot Championship now or trade everybody for draft picks including Kuminga. Maybe not being true contenders but staying a plaoff team until Curry retires is the way to go. It is difficult to trade Curry because he is paid so much. A team would have to gut itself to trade for Curry.
We might as well try to win with what we have. Before we decline the Chris Paul option we should see what we can get for Chris Paul and 5 1st round picks. If we get a star for Chris Paul and 5 1st round picks we might want to keep Klay arround as bench filler unless Klay really does make us worse and we are better off giving Klay’s minutes to Quinones.
If Klay makes us worse he will make any team worse in which case Klay’s only value is to trade Klay’s salary plus 5 1sts for a good player. Klay on a one year deal plus Chris Paul plus 2 1st round picks might get us 40 year old LeBron not that I want LeBron.
Klay plus Chris Paul plus 5 1sts might get us Joikic if we coukd convince Jokic to demand a trade. Most teams probably don’t have enough salary to trade for Jokic or Embiid or Doncik but we have enough salary to trade for a mega star.