{"id":3989,"date":"2024-09-25T03:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2024-09-25T03:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:52:36","slug":"proposed-warriors-trade-lands-kawhi-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Warriors Trade Lands Kawhi Leonard.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2161333158-e1727187253298.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2161333158-e1727187253298.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2161333158-e1727187253298.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2161333158-e1727187253298.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Kawhi Leonard\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" data-img-load-time=\"673\" data-dom-ready-time=\"884\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Kawhi Leonard walks on the court after a practice session during Team USA&#8217;s training camp at the Mendenhall Center at UNLV on July 08, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Warriors\u00a0went aggressively star-hunting in the 2024 offseason, pursuing trades for\u00a0Paul George\u00a0and\u00a0Lauri Markkanen. According to several insiders, Golden State doesn\u2019t plan\u00a0to stop looking for star power\u00a0to help aging franchise cornerstone\u00a0Stephen Curry\u00a0pursue his fifth NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>With that backdrop, the Warriors could again explore trades for other superstars ahead of the February 6, 2025\u00a0NBA trade deadline. One of the names the Warriors could pursue is\u00a0Clippers\u00a0superstar forward\u00a0Kawhi Leonard, who enters the 2024-25 season on a team with little to no expectations to compete for a championship.<\/p>\n<p>Fran Leiva of Fadeaway World has proposed a trade that would send Leonard to Golden State in exchange for a large haul of players and picks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warriors would get:<\/strong>\u00a0 Leonard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clippers would get:<\/strong>\u00a0Andrew Wiggins,\u00a0Gary Payton II,\u00a0Kevon Looney,\u00a0Moses Moody, and a collection of future first-round picks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Golden State, Leonard would offer a huge defensive and offensive boost, and they could afford to take the risk, hoping that Leonard would stay healthy enough to make a deep playoff run,\u201d Leiva wrote on September 23. \u201cWith Curry\u2019s championship window closing, adding a two-time Finals MVP like Leonard would have been a game-changer.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Will the Clippers Blow It Up?<\/h2>\n<p>Following the departure of Paul George as a free agent, the Clippers are\u00a0projected to win just 41.5 games\u00a0in the 2024-25 season, a year after finishing the fourth seed with 51 wins. If the Clippers don\u2019t resemble a title contender by the trade deadline, they could potentially blow up\u00a0the roster assembled in 2019\u00a0with headliners Leonard and George.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Perkins\u00a0believes the Clippers would be better off trading Leonard rather than enduring a period of irrelevancy in the loaded Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m Kawhi Leonard, I would ask to get out of there\u2026 They might have to reconsider who their next superstar\u2019s gonna be and probably go into rebuild mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Perkins on whether the Clippers can still contend despite losing Paul George \ud83d\udde3<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"ql-video\" src=\"https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video\/1807947090653597700\/pu\/vid\/avc1\/1280x720\/AsjQ8Kx6c6WaFsV3.mp4?tag=12\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the July 1 episode of \u201cNBA Today\u201d on ESPN, Perkins argued that the Clippers\u2019 signings of Kevin Porter Jr.,\u00a0Kris Dunn,\u00a0Nicolas Batum and Derrick Jones Jr. were not enough to fill the void of George, a nine-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m Kawhi Leonard, I would ask to get out of there,\u201d Perkins said. \u201cThey might have to reconsider who their next superstar\u2019s gonna be and probably go into rebuild mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Warriors Quietly Confident<\/h2>\n<p>Much like the Clippers, the Warriors enter the 2024-25 season with minimal expectations, playing catch up with powerhouse teams such as the\u00a0Thunder,\u00a0Mavericks,\u00a0Nuggets\u00a0and\u00a0Timberwolves, besides up-and-coming squads such as the\u00a0Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are projected to win 43.5 games, which could mean\u00a0missing the postseason for a consecutive second year. Their players plan to shock the world.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0NBC Sports Bay Area, second-year guard\u00a0Brandin Podziemski\u00a0said he and his teammates plan to thrive off the lowered expectations of their team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t think that we\u2019re the Warriors that we were before, and for us, I think it\u2019s just the best feeling when you don\u2019t have anything to lose out there, and you just go out and prove people wrong,\u201d Podz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a bunch of guys with that mentality that thrive off proving people wrong, and I know Steph [Curry] is one of those guys. So just to be alongside him in the backcourt and in combination with all of our other guys, we\u2019re just excited to prove people wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warriors begin their\u00a02024-25 campaign\u00a0against the\u00a0Blazers\u00a0on October 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyKawhi Leonard walks on the court after a practice session during Team USA&#8217;s training camp at the Mendenhall Center at UNLV on July 08, 2024 The\u00a0Warriors\u00a0went aggressively&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Proposed Warriors Trade Lands Kawhi Leonard.. - 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