Ranking Golden State Warriors' top 9 trade assets for 2023-24

Ranking Golden State Warriors’ top 9 trade assets heading into the offseason

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7. Future first-round draft picks

As you would expect, the Golden State Warriors don’t have a ton of draft assets that they could legally move via trade. In fact, because of the NBA’s Stepien rule, none of the Warriors’ future first-round draft picks before 2026 that they still have are eligible to be traded.

If they wanted, the Warriors could trade two of their 2026, 2027, 2028, or 2029 first-round picks. None in back-to-back years. So the Warriors have two first-rounders that they could trade, and considering they’re down the line, they could be quite valuable, especially without knowing what the long-term future holds for this franchise.

The big question is whether the Warriors would willingly trade any of these picks knowing that a rebuild is likely coming sooner rather than later. Steph is 35 while both Klay and Draymond are 33 years old. Even if they don’t make any big moves this offseason, you’d have to imagine that there will be a day when the Warriors aren’t perennial championship contenders.

And those draft picks could be quite valuable under that assumption.

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