#WARRIORS SUMMER LEAGUE ROSTER FREE#

We think we still have guys beyond these two. So that’s why we draft some guys like that. Obviously trading for them is extremely difficult.

#WARRIORS SUMMER LEAGUE ROSTER FREE#

Young players are probably the most in demand in free agency.

“It’s easier to get some of the older players, we think, in free agency, than young players. But we still do need to surround the team with vets. … Those are unusually gifted young players. But we do feel like three of the young guys (Wiseman, Moody and Kuminga) … they are young, but we do think they can play in the NBA and give us rotation minutes. “After we drafted, somebody joked, you’ve got, like, four 19-year-olds,” Myers said Thursday night. and adding a veteran or two on minimum deals for integral spots, the way they did last season when they signed Porter, Andre Iguodala and Nemanja Bjelica. And then the Warriors will try to round out the lineup by re-signing Looney and Gary Payton II and maybe Otto Porter Jr. They also believe Wiseman, Kuminga and Moody can start playing relatively regularly. Just a week after winning their fourth championship of the Curry Age, the Warriors’ selection of Baldwin, a skilled 6-foot-10 “shooting big,” as team president Bob Myers described him, and the $2 million move up from pick 51 to 44 to take combo guard Rollins told us some things about the Warriors’ offseason plan the rest of this summer.Ĭlearly, the Warriors’ idea is to stock roster spots 10-15 with as much young talent as possible.

We’ll see about all of these guys in the coming weeks of Summer League, starting next weekend in the California Classic at Chase Center, and in the months and years to come.īut draft night is always a very good way to peer into the way a team is thinking about its roster composition. But if Baldwin had fulfilled the expectations of his great prep career, he never would’ve been there for the Warriors at 28. Wiseman, of course, didn’t play a second in this past season due to lingering knee issues and Baldwin, the 28th pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday, has lingering ankle issues from a high school injury that contributed to a debacle of a freshman year at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Yes, the health part is just one giant and immediate caveat with the youngsters. You work hard to develop them the way you developed Poole and Kevon Looney (and even Wiggins as a mid-career revival once he arrived from Minnesota).

You gather a bunch of talented and unproven players. And that’s exactly the way the Warriors want it as they supplement Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson for the short term and also plan for the distant day when they need to do more than supplement them. The variance level on all of these guys is quite high.

Warriors summer league roster