The Warriors are constructed to win now, but what does that mean for the team’s future?<\/p>\n
\u00a0While the situation surrounding restricted free agent\u00a0Jonathan Kuminga\u00a0remains at a standstill, Zach Lowe shared his thoughts on Golden State’s future.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other depressing thought about the Warriors as currently constructed,” Lowe said. “Depressing but also like the most likely outcome by far to the end of a dynastic era, is that the two timelines thing has not happened.<\/p>\n
“And the post-Steph future, despite all the talk about it, all the careful planning for it, several savvy picks like [Brandin] Podziemski, looks like a good pick for where he was drafted.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Brandin Podziemski<\/a> averaged 11.7 points per game last season and shot 44.5 percent from the field. It was a solid effort from Podziemski along with several other young role players, but the main focus continues to be on Kuminga. <\/p>\n “Even a guy like [Trayce] Jackson-Davis looks like a good pick for where he was drafted,” Lowe continued. “Despite all of that, the post-Steph future looks incredibly bleak. The Kuminga transaction, whatever it is, to me is maybe the single most important franchise-building transaction that’s coming in the next two to three to four months in the NBA.<\/p>\n Kuminga\u00a0averaged 15.3 points per game last season on 45.4-percent shooting from the field. The 22-year-old missed 31 games last year due to a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n The former No. 7 overall pick has shown spurts of greatness, but high-level consistency has been the issue.<\/p>\n “And I just don’t see a world in which that transaction sets the Warriors up for a happier post-Steph future<\/a>,” Lowe added. “Because I don’t think that’s going to be, we re-sign Kuminga and he’s a breakout star for us. I think it’s going to be a sign-and-trade in which the return is slightly underwhelming.”<\/p>\n