I\u2019ve got to admit that while I was running through the Warriors\u2019 options, I kept coming across separate ways for the Warriors to end up with these Elder Millennial stars and figured, hey, why not plop them all together and see what it looks like?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how I got to this version of the Golden Oldies Warriors. Stephen Curry, LeBron, Draymond Green, Butler, Lillard, and Horford. Whew! Again: It won\u2019t happen just like this. The Warriors are already old \u2014 Curry is 37, and Draymond and Butler are 35. Getting older would speed up the decline of the Curry era, not slow it down. And Lillard likely won\u2019t even play again until the 2026-27 season, when he\u2019ll be 35. So why would the Warriors want to get much, much older? Generally, they wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
But Lillard is already available after he was waived and stretched by the Bucks on Tuesday, just a few months after his own terrible Achilles injury. LeBron may or may not be available after he opted into the last year of his deal with the Lakers and had his agent send out a passive-aggressive statement about the situation. Horford is somebody the Warriors reportedly have focused on and presumably is deciding among several similar offers. And Kuminga is in limbo because he and the Warriors haven\u2019t agreed to a new deal, no other team has bid enough to get his attention, and his restricted free-agent status pretty much gums up everything.<\/p>\n
Out of this group, I think Kuminga is the likeliest to be with the Warriors at the start of next season, Horford is next, and many things would have to happen before LeBron or Lillard are seriously in the Warriors\u2019 target view.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s go through each situation one by one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got to admit that while I was running through the Warriors\u2019 options, I kept coming across separate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3140,1260,62,24894,18767,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-34114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-golden-state-warriors","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-steph-curry","12":"tag-steve-kerr","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114786852181397578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}