Golden State Warriors: Examining 5 high-profile yet unlikely trade targets

Golden State Warriors: Examining 5 high-profile, low-possibility trade targets

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Ben Simmons

For our second potential target, we continue in Philadelphia. Ben Simmons, who missed the 2020 NBA Playoffs, is an unlikely possibility because of his fit with this franchise, but in the City of Brotherly Love, something must change.

Either give Embiid the keys to the entire franchise or build it around Simmons. What they’re doing now may never work as we’ve watched the organization fail in the playoffs multiple times.

Simmons is a star in his own right though. Averaging 16.4 points, 7.8 assists and 8.0 rebounds per game, Simmons also notched a league-high 2.1 assists.

He has all the traits of a player every team should crave, but his lack of shooting may hurt Golden State’s high-level offense, one balanced with spacing for the splash brothers because of its elite playmaking.

He has made two threes his entire NBA career, and that’s just something he must improve. Draymond Green’s numbers from deep have already taken a hit, and Marquese Chriss can’t shoot from deep either.

Paying a premium for a player that’d start and make the Warriors offense even more strapped to inside the arc shouldn’t be the move Myers makes.

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