What is obvious to Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers fans is finally apparent to the rest of the world: Steph Curry and LeBron James are still championship-caliber players. Although the odds are stacked against them in a loaded Western Conference, their franchises seem reluctant to go all-in for one last shot at a title. What a joke.
Sorry, Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy Jr. and Lakers GM Rob Pelinka, the "we can't throw away our future if it doesn't make us a contender today" nonsense you've peddled the past year is a fallacy after how Curry and James led Team USA to a gold medal at the Olympics in Paris. If you can't build a contender around Curry and James (and Anthony Davis in Pelinka's case), you shouldn't be calling the shots anymore.
Curry, who capped his first Olympics with arguably the two greatest individual performances in Team USA history, should be peeved that the Warriors stood pat at last season's trade deadline. Although Golden State owned the rights to essentially all of its future draft picks and had tradable prospects Jonathan Kuminga, Brandin Podziemski, Moses Moody and Trayce Jackson-Davis, management didn't budge. "THE GOLDEN DAGGER!" Steph Curry that is utterly ridiculous.
#ParisOlympics | NBC and Peacock pic.twitter.com/8hIN8tgmfK Curry also should be irate that Dunleavy wouldn't include Kuminga in a potential deal for Paul George and Podziemski in a package for Lauri Markkanen earlier this summer.
Neither Kuminga nor Podziemski nor any of those .