Warriors forward Draymond Green, who’s set to make his season debut on Sunday, believes that he and Chris Paul will form a dynamic distributing duo, he told Anthony Slater of The Athletic.
“How I see the challenge is for the other team,” Green said. “They’ll have players on the floor that have to think the game of basketball with us. Good luck. That’s how I see the challenge. You put Bill Gates and Paul Allen in a room and you get Microsoft. That’s how I see it.”
Paul will come off the bench for the first time in his career with Green back in the lineup, Slater tweets. The veteran point guard has started in his previous 1,216 regular-season games.
We have more from the Pacific Division:
- Kings coach Mike Brown did not rule out the possibility of a lineup change this evening against the Lakers. Shooting guard Kevin Huerter has struggled during the first week of the season. “There are plenty of guys who made mistakes, and when I evaluate the team, I’m not just looking at Kevin and thinking about taking Kevin out of the starting lineup,” Brown told Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee. “There are other changes that can be made, so I always — with the flexibility we feel we have with this team — that’s something that I always have to take a look at.” Huerter went scoreless in Sacramento’s home opener against Golden State on Friday.
- Trey Lyles, who remained with the Kings on a two-year contract, will miss Sacramento’s game on Sunday with a left calf strain, James Ham of The Kings Beat tweets. Lyles has yet to make his season debut.
- Forward Josh Okogie, who has started the first three games for the Suns, has already drawn a league fine under the new flopping rules. Okogie believes he’ll likely rack up several more, given the way he plays, Duane Rankin of the Arizona Republic writes. “When I saw that, the first thing I thought was it’s going to be a long season,” Okogie said. “You call that a flop or if that’s considered a flop worthy of a fine, then it’s going to be a lot of money going into that fine box this year.” He signed a two-year, veteran’s minimum contract this summer with a player option for next season.
This reboot GSW have 0 chance … They need to make a true move to be a contender again
I disagree, they still have a top 5 league player in Steph, who is still the best guard in the league. Along with Klay and Wiggins they have 3 guys who can take over. Let alone Green, Looney, CP3, Payton etc. they are collectively better than most teams in the league and “should” still be considered as strong contenders.
The issue is long term. The moves they make pretty much says. “Yeah we’re gonna be terrible when Steph hangs up his sneaks”.
Oh it was always doomed…
CP3 and Draymond are too old to make it work now…
If Klay becomes Klay again then the Warriors are a playoff team that might cause an upset or 2…
If Klay is still Klay and Wiggins is still Wiggins this Warriors team doesn’t have enough star power to get the job done unless Steph averages 80 points per game…
As much as I wish it to be the case. I just don’t see it. Short of Denver, if they make it to the play offs. I just don’t see any team clearly out playing them in the west.
Klay “being Klay” is one of the best shooters of all time and an all nba 2-way player. Even If he just offered old man Klay he’ll be a better 2nd than half the west. The weight is on the bench in Payton, Kuminga and Moody etc to contribute.
But I do think they’ll be rock bottom of the league by the latest of 2026.