Howard Beck

I don't know if there are any other moves you can make, but how much are you willing to go all in on trying to salvage this season versus planning for next season?

Not knowing whether you'll get the same Steph for sure next season or the same Draymond for that matter.

So it just throws everything into this awful gray area.

I will say the timing of this sucks on so many levels for them.

They had just won, counting the game that they won without Jimmy last night, they won four in a row, 12-4 since December 18th.

They were actually in a pretty good groove, 25-19 for the season.

That puts them on pace for 46-47 wins.

They're eighth in the West, but only a game and a half out of sixth.

Two games out of fifth, they were actually in an okay place.

And with a potential Kuminga trade to come that maybe could bolster them.

And now instead you're talking about, can we just stay in the play-in race and just hang on?

And how much do you invest in what's left of this season?

It's fucking brutal.

It's rough.

I mean, it's rough.

Like, Kaminga's value in the marketplace already wasn't great.

We know this because he's still on the roster.

Like, you guys covered this on Friday, so I don't want to go back over a lot of this ground.

But like, the very fact that Jonathan Kaminga issued a trade demand to me was kind of laughable in its face.

Like, dude, they were trying to trade you anyway.