The Official 2026/2027 NBA Season Thread
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Dumbest man in basketball history?
"What Lacob wants to do and this might get Warriors' fans mad, but he wants to build the next team after Steph Curry. I don't know how possible that is, but Lacob has a very keen interest in 'This organization is going to show what it can do with Steph Curry and then after Steph Curry.' I don't think it's going to be as good myself, but that's what he wants to do."
"What Lacob wants to do and this might get Warriors' fans mad, but he wants to build the next team after Steph Curry. I don't know how possible that is, but Lacob has a very keen interest in 'This organization is going to show what it can do with Steph Curry and then after Steph Curry.' I don't think it's going to be as good myself, but that's what he wants to do."
The majority opinion on social media is that the Warriors shouldn’t pay Draymond which is wild considering he put the team first and opted out of money that was guaranteed because he was willing to sacrifice to make the team better. They had a deal and honoring it is a no-brainer.
As constructed, we're a play in team that'll win ~40 games.
The Sixers along with every team in our division made big moves. Our response was to sign Vucevic....
It's the same thing every year. "if only they were healthy".
If Suggs and Wagner can't play 65 games this upcoming season, they need to go. Along with everyone in the front office.
More of a response than my team!
I’ll be fair and wait a while before rendering a verdict since the LeBron sweepstakes just ended but right now the Warriors have had the worst offseason in the sport.
Orlando is right there, though, considering the improvement around them in the conference.
Not one person who has responded recognizes this is an old clip— probably from before he was on the block for Giannis.
Still relevant but that context is important.
Draymond Green explains why he’d rather miss the playoffs with Golden State than leave to chase another championship:
“If there’s something I can offer a team and I’m the missing piece that helps them get over the hump, that’s different. That’s contributing to a championship. But going somewhere just to fall into one more? No. The Warriors would have to not want me anymore.”
“I’ve been there 12 years. People forget the Warriors were the laughingstock of the NBA when I arrived. They won 23 games the year before. When I got drafted, Marshawn Lynch laughed at me. He said, ‘You got drafted to the Warriors? Y’all suck.’”
“I remember walking around downtown Oakland as a rookie, passing out tickets to games. That was October 2012. We won our first championship in June 2015.”
“We built this thing from the ground. That’s our baby. The Warriors were nothing. To see that growth and take part in it isn’t something you just walk away from. They would have to not want me anymore. I will always do right by that organization. I’ve never been treated badly.”
“If I had to stay in Golden State another five years and we didn’t make the playoffs once, I’d be totally fine with that. Not because I’m not a competitor but I’d rather struggle with the same guys I succeeded with.”
“We succeeded together. I’d rather struggle together. As long as they have me, I have no reason to ever want to leave.”
You call it lack of appreciation i call it real
Who's left Steph and been better after? Achieved more once they weren't on his team?
Name 1
Steph is the bread and the butter and everyone, you included tried the well actually bullshit for over a decade
I won't forget the niggadry in here that after 3 championships said they needed to see him lead a team
Its not about underappreciating the rest
Its not valuing Steph enough
He is head and shoulders above any comp and every comp and you niggas wasted a decade putting him down instead of appreciating this era had 2 goat level players while most only get 1.
The front office was ass when i told you it was many years ago
The front office is not a front office it is Lacob ego
He is has and always will be the worst owner in sports
You get Steph once.
If i were owner we'd spend every year until his last maximizing the roster so he can win
With that little ass move he'd probably have 6 rings
But because the owner prioritized KUMINGA who's unemployed by the way ... Here we are
Nobody knows more about this team than me
Nobody keeps it real about this team more than me
I ain't worried about opinions about what i say because sooner or later it always ends the same.
I was right.
When i said it i was
It depends on everyone else on when they'll accept it or not.
Fin
You conflate ownership with “everyone else.”
I give Steph his props. Top 10 all time. He was more important than KD when KD was on the team.
The reason I had to exile you from the fan base is you act like it’s ALL Steph. You don’t appreciate how lucky he was to play with one of the greatest defenders and point-forwards of all-time along with possibly the second best shooter of all-time who was also a very good defender.
Steph can be one of the very the greatest but you don’t appreciate the greatness around him.
That’s a totally different conversation from Lacob’s bullshit. The Kuminga shit and all this concern about winning post-Steph— seeming to care about that more than winning with him— is disgraceful. I 100% agree about his ego.
Who left MJ and was better after— what does it matter? No sane person thinks he wins all of those titles without Pippen. Jordan was very lucky to play with Pippen. It doesn’t diminish him. Every great player’s opportunity to achieve his potential is dependent on the circumstances around him.
Jerry Krause was right about organizations winning championships. But, like those Bulls and these Warriors, they can also get arrogant and lose them. It’s amazing to see the mistakes of Chicago’s rush to rebuild repeated but here we are.
I’d love to see Draymond get the no-trade clause he deserves. I don’t recall another player opting out of such an above market value contract to help his team.
I was going to have to exile my damn self from the fan base if they traded him last season.
Your boy has a level of complicity in this if this happens @exiledfansonlyplease.
He should be putting more pressure on the front office. And while he is obviously underpaid from an economic standpoint, he is grossly overpaid from a basketball perspective considering he missed almost the entire series when they were eliminated last time he was in the playoffs and then only played half of last season. I’m not asking him to take a minimum contract like LeBron did but, as MLK said, budgets are moral documents and his actions will show how much he really cares about winning.
Wemby can sacrifice but not Steph. Guess he wants it more than the golfer.
Wembanyama decided on the 25% maximum instead of the 30% supermax escalators to $303M, after he and the Spurs went through multiple frameworks. A major decision for the All-NBA star and Defensive Player of the Year entering his fourth season.
San Antonio worked in close partnership with Wembanyama and his representatives, offering the full super max and different variations of extensions. But Wembanyama ultimately chose a contract sacrifice rooted in giving him and the organization increased ability to build a sustained title contender around
Meaning LeBron intentionally played the Warriors?
Really would say something about him as a person considering there was a friendship involved, plus very petty since the Warriors are not exactly the Spurs.
