WARRIORS ACQUIRE VETERAN FORWARD IN SIGN AND TRADE WITH TIMBERWOLVES
This has not been a good free agency period for the Golden State Warriors so far.
The team that was very recently the NBA’s reigning dynasty lost Klay Thompson, the future Hall of Fame guard who was a major star for them, to the Dallas Mavericks, not to mention point guard Chris Paul, who is joining the San Antonio Spurs.
But Golden State did manage to pick up a nice player who will make them deeper by getting forward Kyle Anderson to agree to a three-year, $27 million deal via a sign-and-trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves, per Adrian Wojnarowski.
Anderson isn’t exactly the scoring threat Thompson has been, but he can strengthen the Warriors’ bench.
He is a decent 3-point shooting threat, as well as a solid defender, and at 6-foot-9 and 230 pounds, he can play both small forward and power forward.
He averaged 6.4 points, 4.2 assists and 3.5 rebounds a game this past season for a rising Timberwolves team that claimed the Western Conference’s third seed and reached the Western Conference Finals.
The Warriors have been gradually disintegrating ever since winning the 2022 NBA championship, and unless they somehow pull off a major trade this summer, they will likely continue their slide into irrelevancy.
They lost in the second round of the 2023 playoffs, and this past season, they lost in blowout fashion to the Sacramento Kings in the play-in tournament, causing them to miss the playoffs.
They’re definitely at a crossroads, and there will not be any easy answers as far as how they can squeeze out one more year of championship contention.
2024-07-02T23:53:25Z dg43tfdfdgfd