My Hope for the Trading Deadline

The NBA Trading Deadline is in 9 days. I am paying to go see the Warriors tonight against the Clippers and get to see Steph Curry, Biedrins, Morrow and a bunch of bench players and scrubs. It’s not that I’m not excited but Monta and Maggette are out and everyone else is injured.

So, as I hear names like Amar’e thrown out every few minutes that he’s available at the trade deadline, I asked myself what I would love to see the Warriors do to get better.

I don’t think anyone would argue that the Warriors need to get better. I also think there are two schools of thought here.
1) Play out the year with the players the Warriors have, draft a top 3-4 talent, get everyone healthy and see next year what they really have. Next year’s team could be pretty good with Randolph back, Ellis with another year of seasoning and leadership, Azubuike back, Brandon Wright back, Morrow healthy, Biedrins and Turiaf back full speed, Curry with a full year under his belt, Maggette with a clearly defined role, etc.

2) Blow up the team and trade away youth for some proven players, players that play defense and perhaps a legit post player who they haven’t had since Webber was in his prime.

Right now, the second one seems pretty appealing but the truth is, who could the Warriors really get, who would want to stick around, and how much would they have to give up to get a player of this caliber.

The more I think of it, the more I think the Warriors hold off on anything drastic, give their young healthy players a chance to really get some playing time and see how the team plays the first part of next year. If they don’t seem to gel or if the fragile W’s get hurt again, then I think you cut your losses and completely blow the team up. But how can you even assess who is valuable, who should stay, etc. with the D-League sensations the Warriors have assembled this year.

Who knows, maybe the Warriors get lucky on ping-pong ball night (yeah right!!). Maybe they can re-sign Raja Bell and make that bench even deeper with healthy players.

I think trading away the young core is too early right now and I’m surprised to say that I am willing to wait until next season to really see what we have.

Tags: Andris Biedrins, Anthony Morrow, Anthony Randolph, Brandon Wrigt, Corey Maggette, kelenna azubuike, Monta Ellis, Ronny Turiaf, stephen curry