It is very obvious that the Golden State Warriors will not be contending for the NBA Finals this season, even with Stephen Curry on the team. The Warriors could be able to make the playoffs after losing in the Play-In Tournament, but they’ll probably be far behind the top Western Conference clubs. The Bay Area’s Curry era may be coming to an end as a result, and teams from all around the league would stop at nothing to get the best shooter in NBA history. With an apparently endless supply of draft picks, the San Antonio Spurs could go to any lengths to acquire Curry, but would it be worth it?
To begin with, an NBA offensive including Stephen Curry and Victor Wembanyama would be among the scariest ever seen. Wembanyama was a top-15 player at the end of the previous season and had to be avoided at all costs. Contrarily, Curry is without a doubt the finest shooter in the league, and the Spurs would surge into the playoffs if they had one of the most formidable perimeter and inside players on the same squad. Of course, if the Warriors were to trade for Curry—who has a contract for the next two seasons and doesn’t appear to be slowing down—they may receive probably the largest return in league history.
.. Blue Man Hoop recently suggested a trade in which the Spurs pay a huge price for Curry.
In the event that the Warriors trade Curry, it will only be for a highly promising package that will accelerate their impending reconstruction, which appears to be built around Jonathan Kuminga and Brandin Podziemski. It would undoubtedly work if they added Castle, the fourth overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, and they would also receive three usable additional picks. The Atlanta Hawks’ impending pick is possibly San Antonio’s greatest asset because the 2025 draft class is supposed to be among the best ever, and Atlanta is probably going to be awful. The Spurs ought to take notice of that alone.
Curry, though, just finished a season in which he averaged 26.4 points, 5.1 assists, and made over 40% of his field goals from beyond the arc for the thirteenth time in his career. He demonstrated that he is still an elite player at the Olympics in Paris. With Curry joining the team, the Spurs would suddenly be among the favorites to win the Finals.
Nevertheless, no matter how alluring a deal for Curry would seem, it would ruin their future. To have a realistic chance of winning in the next two seasons, the Spurs would need to part with their whole farm.
