As Mike Dunleavy explained it, at least, his call log is a graveyard. Deals buried six feet under, never to see the light of day. Cold calls, dangling "stuff" - as Dunleavy put it - where the other line eventually died. He tried, at least.
"There's a lot of guys that we really, really value that don't end up getting moved," Dunleavy told reporters earlier in August, "and that's probably because - so do those teams."
Trying, of course, only counts for so much in Stephen Curry's final seasons as an offensive engine. What do they say, after all, about horseshoes and hand grenades? Two months ago, the budding expectation for swaths of Dub Nation was Anthony Davis and LeBron James. Two months later, the stark reality is Brandon Williams and Georges Niang.
With the franchise publicly announcing deals for Williams and Niang, Golden State's 15-man roster is officially set heading into training camp in late September, with little significant movement from the group that finished 37-45 in 2025-26. There are plenty of pinpricks of upside on an aging roster, though, from Williams' potential as a sparkplug to the bullish nature of rookie forward Yaxel Lendenborg.
Several minor roster jostlings are left to play out through the fall, too, before the start of the season on Oct. 21 in Los Angeles. Unless one of Dunleavy's trade propositions zombifies itself and crawls out of its casket, though, the baseline of Steve Kerr's possible rotation options has been set.
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"There's a lot of guys that we really, really value that don't end up getting moved," Dunleavy told reporters earlier in August, "and that's probably because - so do those teams."
Trying, of course, only counts for so much in Stephen Curry's final seasons as an offensive engine. What do they say, after all, about horseshoes and hand grenades? Two months ago, the budding expectation for swaths of Dub Nation was Anthony Davis and LeBron James. Two months later, the stark reality is Brandon Williams and Georges Niang.
With the franchise publicly announcing deals for Williams and Niang, Golden State's 15-man roster is officially set heading into training camp in late September, with little significant movement from the group that finished 37-45 in 2025-26. There are plenty of pinpricks of upside on an aging roster, though, from Williams' potential as a sparkplug to the bullish nature of rookie forward Yaxel Lendenborg.
Several minor roster jostlings are left to play out through the fall, too, before the start of the season on Oct. 21 in Los Angeles. Unless one of Dunleavy's trade propositions zombifies itself and crawls out of its casket, though, the baseline of Steve Kerr's possible rotation options has been set.
#deals #least #though #mike
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