Warriors Looking to Package Draft Picks for Veteran Small Forward

[Built Ford Tough]

The team is considering a number of options for its four draft picks, according to Warriors and league sources, including trading some or all of them for a current NBA starter such as Andre Iguodala, trading up in the draft to get a top-five prospect like Michael Kidd-Gilchrist or even moving back in the draft to secure future assets.

 

 

If healthy, the Warriors have four players inked into the starting lineup: point guard Stephen Curry, shooting guard Thompson, power forward David Lee and center Andrew Bogut. The Warriors say they want to re-sign small forward Brandon Rush, a restricted free agent, but they'd also like to upgrade their starting small-forward spot.

 

 

Iguodala remains on the Warriors' wish list, and they've expressed similar interest in Portland's Nicolas Batum, Chicago's Luol Deng, Memphis' Rudy Gay, Indiana's Danny Granger and Atlanta's Josh Smith.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/05/SP421OT4KO.DTL#ixzz1x2yl3kJE

 

Basically, they are dangling their 7th pick, 30th pick (or the 38th pick) and Wright for an upgrade at the small forward spot.

 

If they can't get any team with a vet SF to bite on that package, they will then turn their attention to trying to move up in the draft to land MKG. I'd say they have a better chance of getting a vet than moving up to draft MKG.

 

If both of those fail, the author suggests that they will keep the pick and either draft Jared Sullinger or Jeremy Lamb or take a chance on a risk/reward player like PJ3 or Terrence Jones.

[Real Deal]

With news that Chicago is wanting to deal Deng (not really current news, we knew they would try), I'm almost 100% sure the Warriors are going to go after him hard...probably more than any other player right about now.