[Jake Fischer] The Warriors would like to target Giannis Antetokounmpo via trade AND LeBron James via free agency this offseason, per @JakeLFischer
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Golden State Old Folks Home
A 31 year old Giannis would bring down the average age of this team.
Potential starting Lineup Giannis, Thannasis, Lebron, Bronny, Curry
Seth Curry for 6th man?
I think Dell is still available…
I assumed he’d be on the coaching staff. Alex can round out the 7 man rotation though
Lebron might have to force Bryce to go pro after this year just so have they have enough guys on the roster
Hell, what’s Kostas up to?
“Bryce, just declare, we need to lower our average age by a lot”
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i wonder if they can trick GSW into signing bronny by having the wrong LeBron James sign the contract
What in the Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” ass bullshit is this?
LeMony Snicket
“The name on the contract does say McMahon LeBron James… However, the contract reads, ‘LeBron James Junior’. That’s right; I now warm the bench for G S W.”
They might not win but they’ll get the views holy shit. if they can scrap together a solid core around them Heat/Spo style they can do some damage.
I feel like a young guy with a lot of upside that’s had some rough luck lately might be good to add too. Maybe a guy like Anthony Davis that the Mavs seem willing to part with?
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Golden Years Warriors
They’d (you’d) win the title
In the 2027 playoffs? Here are the ages by then:
Steph: 39
Butler: 37
LeBron: 42
Draymond: 37
Giannis will start slowing down in a few years, you want him to carry this team of old folks to a title?
Doubt Butler would be on the team. Dunno how they move him but if this trio actually became a reality he’d have to be gone in the hypothetical.
I think Giannis and Steph duo is one of the best duos in the NBA possible. Don’t think anyone fits better with Steph outside of Jokic.
Steph Jokic would go crazy. Butler’s an expiring next season. That at least has some value. He won’t play either so if a tanking team gets him that would help their record.
I’m not sure Butler or Dray would be on that team if they’re acquiring Giannis through trade and LeBron through FA
They would unquestionably couldn’t be. Bron won’t take potato chips And Giannis is a max. Those two plus Curry would force a G league bench + Bronny
We can get LeBron unless he wants a max in free agency. Jimmy would be traded for Giannis though.
Possibly, but you also need a true defensive, mobile big and with LeBron you don’t need Dray’s connectivity with Steph nearly as much, right?
I honestly dont even think Giannis is enough to save this team.
With curry? This ain’t dame no disrespect. Curry a lot less ball dominant
Steph and Giannis can make them contenders, I agree. But Podz/Moody/Post all need to play at least decent and not go ice cold in the Playoffs
I imagine if Giannis and LeBron come to town (yes I’m rolling my eyes) the Warriors would have the pick of the litter in free agency
the Warriors would have the pick of the litter in free agency
With what money.
2 maxes + whatever lebrón gets and you have 3 dollars to field an entire roster.
I’d sign there for a dollar if they need a guy to peel oranges and wave towels on the bench.
Giannis would be out in the first round with injuries.
I appreciate the full commitment to the bit.
Just completely delusional.
A lot of Warriors fans that don’t know who Adonal Foyle is aren’t realizing that the entire organization is propped up by Steph. Once he’s gone, it’s all going to come down like a ton of bricks
All time franchise leader in blocks baby! Jokes aside completely agree, a lot of warriors fans (as well as the warriors ownership) will be in for a shock once Steph retires, turns out shit is a lot harder when you don’t have a top 10 (imo top 5 but I’m biased) player of all time who also happens to be extremely low maintenance on the roster. He completely transformed the franchise both economically and in terms of how we are viewed across the league by players as a good culture that people want to be a part of now. Who knows how long that will last after Steph and kerr are gone though.
As a side note I met Adonal Foyle at a warriors bball camp when I was a kid, he took a pic with the entire camp and was super engaged. Really nice guy who seemed genuinely interested in any of the kids he was talking to, I remember he had an enormous smile the entire time.
Adonal also used to work with an org named Democracy Matters (edited the name) I volunteered with back in the college. You are right, just absolutely the nicest dude, he gave us a bunch of tickets and talked to us before and after the game. And that was also back in the day when tickets were practically free, but he still gave up so much of his time.
I’m glad to hear that it isn’t just my childhood memory making him out to be a good guy! Love to hear it.
I know people who worked at Colgate while he was there. They insist he was one of the kindest most caring people they ever met.
Some people really are just nice people and that’s awesome.
I was a guest of his for a Magic Celtics playoff series in 2009 and he brought us down after the game to meet some of the staff. Moved to Bay Area right after so it’s been cool to see the love he gets from the Warriors fans.
It was called democracy matters. I did a ton of work for them!
I sent a bunch of rookies their rookie cards in the mail and he was one of the few who took the time to autograph. So I’ll always root for the guy!
That’s so interesting. Did most of them just not respond, so you lost the cards?
And I’m assuming there were no big names that you sent cards to, considering sometimes rookie cards can be worth a lot (without signature) if the player blows up? I guess it’s hard to know in advance sometimes how successful they will be..
Sorry for the interrogation, I just find this intriguing as I used to collect lots of cards as a kid, and never considered mailing them out for signatures. Cool idea
I lost the cards yeah. Really wanted a Chauncey or Mercer but didn’t get it. I sent the Fleer Ultra series cards my dad bought for me. I got Adonal Foyle, Tim Thomas, Tony Battie, and Brevin Knight to send back autographs. Very cool of them to do. I sent out basically to each of the 1st rounders. As a kid, I followed all 4 of them their entire career bc of that. Was elated when Battie eventually became a Celtic.
Bro transformed the league nvm your franchise.
For sure, no argument from me there. I only specified the franchise because of the context of the comment I was replying to.
Adonal is one of the GOAT Warriors based on personality alone
Colgate legend! My dad went to Lafayette College (Patriot League conference rival) a few years before Foyle and he claims that he knew Foyle would have a solid NBA career. He’s one of only 8 players to make the league from that conference - CJ McCollum & Santi Aldama are the only current NBA players to come from the conference.
Love the point, disagree that Steph is top 5 though, that’s an extremely high bar
At any rate, he’s in a tier that only 11-12 guys in NBA history have ever reached. People think we will land on another all time great that quick will be wrong. Only 1/3rd of teams even have an all time franchise GOAT who has a resume as good or better than Steph!
Honestly, the team will just lose all the Curry fans when he leaves.
Only the Lakers, Celtics, and Spurs are exempt from joining us in post-dynasty eternal mediocrity
At least you had one.
Seriously. Lemme play you a sad song Chicago
What makes you say the Spurs are exempt? They haven’t done shit yet but win a lottery. They have potential, but it is still very much that.
Most honest NBA fan. And yes I remember Adonal Foyal.
The greed this franchise has is what the Bible warned about
Listen if Dodgers can pull it off… (Yes I know completely different CBA)
Also different types of owners. NBA has gotten rid of most of their cheapskate owners from years past. Now most at least try to spend or put smart enough guys in their front office to make things work.
there are still plenty of cheap owners. the difference isn’t just the salary cap, it’s the salary floor. even the cheap owners have to spend 90% of the cap, while in baseball they can be as cheap as they want
NBA has gotten rid of most of their cheapskate owners from years past.
That’s not true, they in fact gotten more powerful with this CBA.
This is a CBA is designed to benefit cheapskate ownership, limit player salaries using the cap and control the ability of the owners that are willing to spend.
I truly think there’s a better chance of Steph going to MKE than this.
Not that it’s a high chance. Just a better chance.
They had their chance. That ship has sailed
obligatory fuck the dodgers
crazy to think stheph could’ve played with giannis in milwaukee or with ad in new orleans if the other teams accepted the gsw offers.
That is either an excellent typo, or speech-to-text has become so firmly committed to the gig that it incorporated your lisp lol
This is only step one of the plan, after they pull this off they will get a nice trade to get SGA.
Can you imagine the roster of Steph, LBJ, SGA, and Giannis literal light years ahead.
I would also like to not work, but also make $200 mill next year, and have multiple wives
My brother, have you not simply tried being born a Saudi Prince?
Lol, lmao even
Big dreams your team has there. You love to see it.
What could it cost, 1 Kuminga?
No they’re going to hold onto him to see if his value increases. Probably want to add jokic also
Wemby is the best pick up in this scenario
Kuminga and a protected 1st should get it done.
and a protected 1st
From the spurs, of course.
But not until he’s at least 35. We want him aged like a Barolo.
First round picks and salary matching and Adam silver to give the bucks the #1 pick in a future draft
I guarantee at least 5000 Warriors fans took this seriously.
Only if Nico is GM
Nauseating just to think about this happening lmao
The guy on x that draws lebron and steph yaoi is gonna love this.
The what that does who
Ah man.. dont ask, you’re better off not knowing.
I’m actually team yuri, but I like sports too. Rather funny. Also not into the whole “shipping real people” thing. Especially not two married people lol
That is not an arrangement of weird I expected to see.
Giannis is too young for the retirement home
Two timelines
One timeline
Daydreams
I’ve hated Golden State since KD joined, but a Steph Bron combo would have me interested
It would just be perfect. The game deserves to see it.
it very briefly was perfect. there was a few all-time KD-steph-bron moments in those olympic games
At their ages now, it would just be funny and not destroy the league
Constant podcast fodder all season long.
I could only stomach it in Cleveland since they were both born in Ohio, but not in GS. It would make me sick to my stomach seeing Lebron in that blue jersey and the smug bandwagon tech bro fans celebrating another ring on top it
It would make me sick to my stomach seeing Lebron in that blue jersey and the smug bandwagon tech bro fans celebrating another ring on top it
Yeah he’s better off staying with a team without smug bandwagon fans and recent rings, the Lakers.
I hated that he went there, still do tbh. But at least he didn’t have a historic rivalry against them like he did GSW and also they were a dumpster fire when he went, the recent ring was with him there as 1A.
Lebron may have team hopped a lot but at least he doesn’t have a team where he was exclusively old and washed to the point that his run there can be used as a reference like “Celtics Shaq”
They’re not gonna get another ring. It’s just gonna be fun.
If LeBron takes a pay cut for this than everything we know of him is wrong lmao
He’ll likely have to take a big paycut to stay on the Lakers anyways, so might as well go play with Steph who he loves and his business partner draymond
lmfao rn
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I’ll take her friend Beth
Like KD I’ll take the tub
Based
That show knew what is was doing: one girl for the guys that like them thick, and one girl for the guys that like them thin.
And one stiffler’s mom for the guys that like moms.
Someone made this same joke on a report about the lakers having their eyes on luka doncic the summer before it happened
You’re right, the Lakers are a spoon fed franchise who get gift wrapped star players
All that spoon feeding helped them grow up big and strong though!
Sorry dudes want to live in Southern California and play for one of the most successful franchises in the NBA
u/CupOfHotTeaa DM her NOW!
I’ll take Rachel mcadams
We hung out with her once at a hockey game. She had the gall to be both immensely hot AND fun and chill.
How dare she.
Her left AND her right
Best we can do is Scott Jennings.
Would you take a date with Kuminga instead?
And a 2nd round swap?
Gonna try sliding into rhea Ripleys dms
I’d like for billionaires to all give their money away into a fund that eliminates world famine and poverty…alas
Is there demand?
The Celtics would like to target Nikola Jokic via trade AND Kristaps Porzingis via free agency this offseason, per /u/TatumBrownWhite
Why stop there. Target SGA, Luka, Wemby and fuck it, also go for Giannis.
You’re thinking too small, no need to constrain yourself to basketball. Shohei Ohtani to GSW!
More strikeouts than curry I’m just saying they’d be stupid to not go for him.
The Golden State Warriors are looking to pair 1996 Michael Jordan with 2000 Shaq to add to their Curry-Giannis dynamic duo, per u/Akipella
Can Giannis and Shaq play together? Terrible spacing considering 96 Jordan isn’t shooting high volume 3s. Play-in team at best.
Shaq just picks up Giannis by his hips. The kaiju known as Shiannis is unstoppable.
GSW front office more washed than their players are
It’s part of the plan for Kerr and MDJ to take the floor.
“I had to bail Steph out… again!”
Do they think Jimmy Bulters money magically disappears because he’s hurt?
No, but his salary aligns with a Giannis trade and he went to college in Milwaukee. Plus, there is some cap relief available via disabled player exemption.
Tbh, I could easily see Jimmy being fine with sitting on the bench next season collecting paychecks and then immediately bouncing somewhere else (or retiring if no one wants to pay him what he wants).
Please don’t do this Horst/Bucks FO.
Tbf you would be getting all of the warriors picks, which are gonna be very Juicy soon. A 32-34 year old giannis with nobody else is gonna be a lotto team for a while.
Why the hell would Milwaukee want Jimmy and his max contract?
for the bit!
To help steph! Remember everyone has to help steph for reasons.
We despise Jimmy Butler in Milwaukee lmao. Also, he literally just tore his ACL lmaooo. You have to give value In return for a trade, you don’t just get a top 3 player with the money needed to match his salary
Can u guys hire Nico Harrison really quick?
He went to college in Milwaukee is HILARIOUS
kind of undersells his ties to the city, I hear he also stopped for gas on a road trip in the summer of ‘15
The Bucks want to be good while they are shelling out picks to the Blazers not bad.
They will want (and get) players AND picks for Giannis.
*checks notes* urmmm yes?
LeBron they may get. Giannis? With what fucking assets?
Warriors thinks all their players are prime MJ.
But they also bench them and shit on them every time the media put a mic in their face. Classic buy high sell low but demand high so no sale made value creation.
“Kuminga is horrible”
“Why is there no demand for Kuminga?”
No lowball offers. I know what I got
They might be once Curry is gone, I have not seen Dunleavy do anything that makes me think he is good at his job
Warriors thinking they’re the Lakers and that the franchise is the draw, when really it’s just Steph and once he’s gone they’ll go back to middle or bottom of the league they have predominantly resided in.
Those picks are gonna be worth their weight in gold when Steph is gone, Warriors will be ASS
If they have Giannis, the calculation changes.
It doesn’t really. The warriors turn into the bucks so a middling team to low end team. By the time Steph leaves Giannis will be 33-35 and surrounded by the remnants of whatever is left of the team.
a middling team = middling pick
wdym?? they still have their picks
And everyone knows how much demand there is for Jonathan Kuminga
They do not. 2030 pick is with the Wiz with protections. Which means 2029 and 2031 picks are untradeable but swapable.
2030 is also tradeable since it’s protected til 20 and given the trajectory of the warriors, that pick is not being sent to the wizards.
So they trade 26, 28, 30 (1-20), and 32.
26 could end up late lottery and then 30 and 32 are likely good picks
Picks from a team with Giannis are likely not great assets
The Bucks picked this year is good, so the Warriors with Giannis in 4 years will also be good picks
I don’t care how this goes. The world needs to see this happen.
If you get me Lebron, Curry, and Giannis on the same team.. It would be a legendary send off for Lebron.
These 3 on a team together + retirement tour would break attendance records
Nosebleed seats would also cost 1,000 dollars.
the previous people outpricing others may get outpriced themselves
Adam Silver forces the trade for monetary reasons
Lmao starting that sentence with “If you get me” had me thinking you were including yourself in the trade
One final superteam to fail in the finals!
The haters would LOVE this! (I am the haters)
I want Ana de Armas too but that doesnt mean I’d have a chance on her
Don’t sell yourself short man, shoot your shot
I just might. Thank you, kind sir
This is the most “Jake Fischer” thing I’ve ever seen. Just reports a bunch of nonsense every year.
Dude is so desperate for clicks. It’s painful.
I saw who the reporter was and rolled my eyes. This sub genuinely never learns lmao
This the greed they talk about in the Bible.
I’m also targeting Sydney Sweeney in a trade for my wife and Ana de Armas in free agency this summer
Why would you trade your wife for mid
First off, you gotta have zero class to type the words trade for my wife, so yeah that explains why Sydney Sweeney.
Like the warriors he also only values her highly when it’s time to make a trade.
Why don’t they also try to get jokic? Are they stupid?
What trade bait does Warriors have to offer for Giannis? A broken Jimmy Butler and a FRP ain’t gonna do it.
The Warriors picks are going to be very, very valuable
Yes and that’s why Giannis wont want to go there. Steph, Giannis, and a bunch of role players that aren’t good and don’t fit next to Giannis particularly well isn’t something he is going to signup for.
LOL most delusional franchise in sports
Golden State. Sounds like a retirement residential neighborhood.
Lmaooo
We have moved on from just having delusional warriors fans to having a delusional warriors front office as well.
“and I just want a million dollars” -Chandler Bing
And I would like to go on a date with Madison Beer and Beyoncé
Warriors and Heat may be the two most delusional in terms of superstars via trade.
Nobody is taking their late first rounders for Giannis. Bucks should be able to get legit young pieces and picks and so many other teams should be lining up.
They realize the Bucks don’t have to just give them Giannis right? Like they want to receive equivalent value or at least close to it, how would the Warriors even possibly do that? All their good players are old asl
Why stop there? Get KD, Kawhi, Bam, assemble the Avengers.
I would like to target Margot Robbie and Lauren Cohan this summer, myself
might as well get sga and jokic while they’re at it
Draymond was the source
Hurt jimmy and kuminga for healthy giannis who says no?
I am targetting Keke Palmer and Angela White this offseason.
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