Their window is super short anyways

They gotta take a risk man and if Davis gets lucky and can stay healthy for a few months Golden State might have a chance to win. If they don’t do the trade they have zero chance.

This is gonna be unpopular I guess… but I would really like this move if we pull it off.

First off, we’re absolutely NOT contenders in our current state. So status quo isn’t going to work.

Beyond that, our biggest problems come down to lacking size. Offensively especially, we have zero players who are a real threat around the basket or apply pressure on the rim. It’s painful as shit to watch Steph having 3 guys on him with no one in the paint to punish teams for it. And defensively, we get punished by big men bc we have zero size or shot blocking presence on that side of the court either. Draymond’s great but there’s only so much he can do alone and at 6’6”.

Given all that, AD basically solves our biggest issues on both sides of the court. If healthy, he’d be an amazing fit next to Steph and on our team.

Of course, the elephant in the room is that AD is old af and injury prone. But… to be honest… at this point, we’re desperate. We’re in the closing chapter of Steph’s star level. And our roster sucks. We kinda need a hail mary at this point. So I wouldn’t mind taking a risky swing like this. What’s the worst that could happen? AD stays injured and the move doesn’t work out? Well, we’re not contenders in our present state anyways. So why not take a swing at a guy who might be able to unlock our team?

Bro, it’s called a retirement community.   Be respectful. 

definitely what we needs just don’t give us Kuminga please and thank you

To be honest, yeah if I were GS I’d just go all in on guys like that to see if the stars can align for one more Steph ring somehow. This is all gravy for them

Their window is now. They have much more of a chance of having an unusually healthy run circa Lakers 2020 than for them to get a young star without giving up much and waiting for him to mature.

He’d be a spring chicken on that Warriors roster.

It’s pretty much all or nothing for them right now so they may as well go all in while Steph is still playing at a high level. 

This is such a desperate move.

I mean, what else can we do? Stick with the same team and replicate the exact same results?

At least an injury prone old guy in Draymond would be going out for him, so it’s not a net gain of injury prone old guys. 

Cuz the front office overestimated themselves.

They thought they were the 2000-2015 Spurs

They were in fact the 1990s Bulls

The dynasty ending. Best time to make that trade is 2023. Second best time is now.

I don’t think they expected their championship team to implode like that. Wasn’t just draymond and Jordan Poole incident but, Wiggins really fell off a cliff after that 2022 run.

Because the Warriors haven’t been a good assessor of talent. Drafted Wiseman at 2, hung on to Kuminga (7th) and Moody (14th) in a draft where you had Franz Wagner go 8th and plenty of better players past the lottery like Sengun and Jalen Johnson.

Traded Ryan Rollins AND Jordan Poole AND a first round pick for the corpse of Chris Paul.

They take too long to make decisions, like they did with Klay Thompson, like they’re doing with Kuminga now.

If they didn’t have Curry carrying them they’d be the same bum franchise they’ve been since the late 70’s

Steph Curry is still a top 10 player in the league. Probably more like top 5 with a competent team around him. You will probably never again have a player that good play for your franchise. Might as well go all in now and then tank for a couple years after he hangs em up. Dude made your franchise what it is you owe it to him to give him what he wants

They’re like a junkie that just can’t stop.  Even after trading for Davis, would anyone argue that they are better than OKC or several other teams?  

Delusional thinking Joku would pop and unwilling to hold Draymond accountable for being a fucking manchild who destroyed the confidence of our most promising young player. Should’ve realized that squad was cooked and made moves then

Or maybe Chris Haynes has zero sources at GS

I personally don’t believe this for a second

They don’t win with Davis. They also have a terrible trade package to get him. They missed the boat (twice) when they had chances to get Lauri from Utah and Monk from the kings and inexplicably didn’t

I don’t believe this at all lol for all the reasons you said

This very well could have been a conversation like:

“Would you guys trade for AD?”

“Maybe if the deal was right”

And then the reporters just twist it

All in would mean a significant roster change right? Why would you do that immediately after winning a title?

Yeah the two timelines idea was a failure. They drafted with picks they should have traded and are now thinking about trading picks they should be keeping to draft players.

If Golden State gives up some of their near future firsts, I’d drive AD to the Bay myself.

Is that an actual quote? Because that rules

the dallas medical staff used to be the best until nico fired them😂😂😂

They haven’t even BEGUN to peak

They’re gearing up to sign LeBron in the off season.

Mark my words.

If Davis is traded now, LeBron comes in the summer.

Warriors turning into the clippers real fast

They have valuable picks to trade

Absorbing ADs contract is the asset. 

davis gotta be cheap right now. they just need trash contracts to match salaries. they have enough assets. just not enough space to move contracts.

the warriors have picks to trade lol what do you mean they dont have assets

also the mavs are trying to get off the AD contract anyway, its not like it would take that much to get the trade done

Might as well figure out a way to get him in

2022 Otto porter jr type beat

Yeah. AD is at the cheapest now. Warriors can finally afford him BUT, this is definitely a HIGH risk, HIGH reward move. It will most likely fail, but since their focus is championship for curry, this is their final chance.

Hard to imagine they can land AD without sending out a lot of draft capital . 

He was actually walking when he got injured in the last game 

Probably only different level type player they could get without giving up a lot, much like Jimmy.

Bro just put up something like 35-17 four days ago

Scared money don’t make money

Draymond is a former DPOY, 9 times all-defense team.

Just saying. AD never won DPOY

Thanks, Magic!

When he isn’t injured AD is amazing

I mean they are going nowhere anyway so might as well bet on some good luck.

Fans always underestimate how much value players hold. All season people have been saying that nobody would want AD (some even saying that he was virtually untradeable), yet we’ve constantly gotten reports about teams being interested in him

Nico got fired

Except Nico isn’t the one putting AD on the trade block because, y’know, he doesn’t work for the Mavs anymore.

Tbf Nico has nothing to do with whether or not AD gets traded.

Still a fucking clown though 100%

“You’re right, Jimmy, this is really good coffee.”

This. He just makes stuff up. A lot of them do.

Draymond on the Lakers is a liability.

All that drool on the floor of him being around LeBron, the other ten players will slip and get injured

Gafford PR is insane Lol the man cannot protect the rim or rebound. Hes a cool backup but not a starter

You don’t have the assets for the latter

Gafford or Pj not getting you over the hump to beat okc den or SA

If AD was younger or healthier you wouldn’t have the assets for him lmao. 

why would anyone ever want AD on the team or other very injury prone players?

Because the Warriors have at best a 1.5 years runway until their tear it completely down and start rebuilding.

So anything that could make them better in this short window is worth a closer look.