Howard Beck
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Oh, man.
This is difficult on so many levels for the Warriors.
They were already kind of on the fringes of the playoff hunt, right?
We're a good, solid team.
We're a team that's going to finish in the mid-40s to high-40s and wins, right?
With Jimmy Butler.
With all the weirdness around Kuminga.
With this kind of wonky roster.
We're hanging in.
But this?
This is a death blow to the season.
There's no two ways about it.
No Jimmy Butler means whatever illusion the Warriors had, whatever hopes they had of being on the fringe contender chase in the West is gone.
And I don't know if they were there in the first place.
But even if you were close, if you thought you were close, maybe we're one really good Kuminga trade away from really inserting ourselves in that top tier in the West.
Forget it.
Not without Jimmy Butler.
Any hope the Warriors had of being more than a first-round-and-out team is gone.
So that's the first part.
The second part is to step back and assess what you can do.