{"id":80249,"date":"2025-07-07T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=80249"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:44:45","slug":"are-the-warriors-playing-it-smart-or-just-falling-behind-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/are-the-warriors-playing-it-smart-or-just-falling-behind-in-free-agency\/80249\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Warriors Playing it Smart or Just Falling Behind in Free Agency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"3d0ed1a1-22e1-4322-a652-099fd955d2a4\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words dark\">\n<p data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"448\">The Golden State Warriors haven\u2019t had the smoothest ride in this year\u2019s NBA free agency. So far, they haven\u2019t signed <em data-start=\"260\" data-end=\"265\">any<\/em> new players, and they still haven\u2019t figured out what they\u2019re doing with young talent Jonathan Kuminga. For fans, that\u2019s starting to feel like\u2026 a lot of waiting and not much action.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"731\">One of their main targets is veteran big man Al Horford. He\u2019d be a solid addition, not a total game-changer, but definitely a good move in the right direction. Rumors say Horford is <em data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"645\">likely<\/em> to join the Warriors, but there\u2019s no official deal yet, which is making fans nervous.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"733\" data-end=\"1089\">Things got even more tense when news broke that Jonas Valanciunas (a centre just picked up by the Denver Nuggets) was considering leaving the NBA to play in Europe. Why does that matter for the Warriors? Because if he <em data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"960\">did<\/em> leave, the Nuggets would suddenly have more money, enough to try and grab Horford themselves, possibly outbidding the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1314\">But then, ESPN insider Shams Charania shared some calming news:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1314\">The Nuggets told Valanciunas they\u2019re keeping him and want him to stay put as Jokic\u2019s backup. That means Denver probably won\u2019t go after Horford after all.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1314\">\n<h2 data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1478\"><strong data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1357\">What does that mean for the Warriors?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1478\">They\u2019re still in the best spot to sign Horford, and now they don\u2019t have to worry about the Nuggets stealing him away.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1478\">The Warriors haven\u2019t made any big moves yet, but signing Horford would be a good first step as they try to build a strong team around Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler. It\u2019s not a blockbuster deal, but it\u2019s part of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1799\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Let\u2019s just hope they don\u2019t stay stuck in \u201cwaiting mode\u201d for too long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State Warriors haven\u2019t had the smoothest ride in this year\u2019s NBA free agency. So far, they haven\u2019t signed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":80250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[23066,15743],"class_list":["post-80249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-warriors"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}