3 Most important moves Golden State Warriors made during rebuild
By Tony Pesta
Golden State Warriors remained patient
Year one of the rebuild was mostly a wash. Once Stephen Curry fractured his hand to go along with Klay Thompson’s preexisting season-ending injury, no one expected anything from the Golden State Warriors in 2019-20.
The next year? Even with Thompson suffering another massive injury, the pressure was mounting for Golden State. They expected to at least be a playoff team in 2020-21. When that didn’t happen, the urge to make a panic-trade felt insurmountable.
And can you blame them?
The Warriors were fortunate enough to have one of the most valuable trade packages in the entire league. Three lottery picks and a seemingly expendable $30 million dollar asset in Andrew Wiggins gave the Dubs the ability to target just about anybody they wanted.
They chose to remain patient.
Golden State kept all of their picks, drafting James Wiseman, Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody despite an overwhelming incentive to trade them for established talent.
Instead, the Dubs added veteran talent through free agency, bringing in Otto Porter, Nemanja Bejlica and Andre Iguodala.
They chose to bet on their developmental team and stick with the core and it paid off. Had the Warriors overhauled this roster last summer, we might be seeing a totally different outcome.