[WOJ] Draymond signs extension

While thats true I believe the idea is to trade Russell for 2 or 3 role players

 

If draymond wins defensive player,

Someone, Hello, New York, would have given him 235.5 million supermax plus team leader.

Joke

 

Jordan made $3.85M that same season. The economics were different back then.

 

51 days after surgery, Kevin Durant is practicing now. return soon?

Nets doctors overrated injury?

 

So he passed up 104 million?

 

If you take it as a given that GS would've given him the max next summer, yes. I think that's a bad assumption.

 

Rodman needed to start gouging eyes out.... I'm jk

 

I'm not buying Currys ankes, Thompsons injury, and greens fortitude in the future. To me the Russell kid is average nba player over paid. Rather have eric gordan over Russell any day.

 

Today it's arguable. In a year or two when Gordon's slowing down in his 30s and Russell's hitting his mid-20s peak, this isn't going to look good.

 

In 2022, curry sign 1year deal 5 mil like Duncan, GS can sign a star to rebuild the team, they are new spurs.

5 stars, 2 young 3 old.

Morey would have to trade WB in 2022 to rebuild.

 

What, Draymond could've gotten $50 million a year???

 

Looks like reports of the Warriors demise are greatly exaggerated.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they end up with the top seed in the West when Thompson returns healthy. Too many people have forgotten the kind of damage that team can do with Curry leading the way and no Durant to share the spotlight.

 

I think the offense will still be strong, but without Durant, Iggy, Shaun and Klay (for half a season), the defense will suffer too much for them to contend for the top seed. 3-4 seed feels more like their ceiling in 2019-20.

The last few years, when the team was healthy, they could put four All-NBA level defenders on the court with the best three point shooter the game has ever seen. That lockdown lineup was the key to many of those third quarter 24-3 runs that put games away. Now it's suddenly down to one (Dray). Looney is a solid defender but not at that level yet.

 

I hope they try hard this year. Their main weaknesses are injuries and the lack of physicality.

I doubt they can sustain dominance without a years rest...

 

No one remembers the 2013/2014 Warriors? The team that hadn't acquire Iguodala yet. The team that didn't have super sub Shaun Livingston. The team that, yes, had Green/Curry/Klay as their core but had more question marks than answers (just like this next season). That team went 51-31 and lasted until the conference semis. Were they good? Yup but hardly elite. And that's Curry/Klay/Green with less on the odometer.

They will have the same problem(s) Houston have in regards to size against the Clippers and Lakers.

 

You're probably generally right about next year, but that 2013-14 team already had Igoudala, and calling Dray part of that core is a reach. Green was backing up David Lee and 6th on the team in minutes played - nobody really know what GS had in him until Kerr made him a starter the next year.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/GSW/2014.html

 

Thanks for the correction! I was looking for that 2012-2013 team.

 

Unfortunately I think he will put up numbers and they will trade him at the deadline for a disgruntled forward that puts them back on top. Hope I am wrong