{"id":12167,"date":"2024-12-19T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=12167"},"modified":"2024-12-19T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:25:07","slug":"breaking-warriors-emerge-as-frontrunners-to-land-steph-curry-a-new-146-million-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=12167","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Warriors Emerge as Frontrunners to Land Steph Curry a New $146 Million Co-Star.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2190146207-e1734551744210.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2190146207-e1734551744210.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2190146207-e1734551744210.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2190146207-e1734551744210.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Warriors\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"795\" data-dom-ready-time=\"824\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is guarded by Klay Thompson of the Dallas Mavericks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Golden State Warriors\u00a0have emerged as the frontrunners to land\u00a0Jimmy Butler\u00a0if the\u00a0Miami Heat\u00a0trade the six-time NBA All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>Butler has a strong interest in joining\u00a0Stephen Curry\u00a0and the Warriors, Shams Charania of ESPN indicated on \u201cNBA Today\u201d on December 17, doubling down on his earlier report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Suns and the Warriors are believed to be atop their list, his preferred win-now destination, if the Miami Heat were to trade him, with the Rockets and Mavericks being the others,\u201d\u00a0Charania said. \u201cThis is a fluid situation that we\u2019ll see play out over the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The latest reporting surrounding Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat on NBA Today:\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/w8TpCuQ7jd<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania)\u00a0December 17, 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have the cleanest path to trading for Butler with different combinations of draft picks, young players such as\u00a0Jonathan Kuminga\u00a0and\u00a0Brandin Podziemski\u00a0and midsize contracts, including their newest acquisition\u00a0Dennis Schr\u00f6der,\u00a0to work around with.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets have already dropped out of the Butler sweepstakes after\u00a0Rafael Stone, the team\u2019s general manager,\u00a0went on record\u00a0that they do not plan to make significant changes to their young but ascending team. On the other hand, the Mavericks have no interest in adding another max player as they already have two of them \u2014\u00a0Luka Doncic\u00a0and\u00a0Kyrie Irving, who are also ball-dominant stars. They would need to gut their depth for Butler.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_2_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-2 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"CMKpuYPjsooDFZqoZgIdMRA28A\">\n<p>Meanwhile, the Suns have limited assets. They have Bradley Beal\u2019s $50.2 million as their salary ballast, but they would need him to waive his no-trade clause. It also\u00a0doesn\u2019t make sense for the Heat to replace Butler with the injury-prone Suns guard\u2019s onerous contract.<\/p>\n<p>Beal is owed\u00a0$110 million over the next two years\u00a0after this season.<\/p>\n<p>Butler is in the second season of a\u00a0three-year, $146.4 million contract\u00a0with next year a player option.<\/p>\n<h2>Warriors\u2019 Jimmy Butler Interest Could Lead to \u2018Substantive Talks\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>According to Substack\u2019s NBA insider Marc Stein, the Warriors\u2019 interest in Butler is the strongest among the four teams mentioned as potential landing spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeague insiders continue to describe Golden State, as things currently stand, as the only team of the four most frequently mentioned as potential Butler suitors as having an interest in the 35-year-old that could eventually lead to some substantive trade talks,\u201d\u00a0Stein wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have checked in with the Heat after Butler did not get an extension in the offseason, per Sam Amick of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimmy Butler\u2019s going to be a free agent next summer, didn\u2019t get an extension done,\u201d\u00a0Amick said on \u201cThe TK Show\u201d podcast on September 12.\u00a0\u201cThe Warriors, as you know, have interest there and I think probably [they] made a couple of calls during the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, at that time, the Heat were not as open as it is now in listening to offers for Butler.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Joe Lacob Hints at Another Move After Dennis Schr\u00f6der Trade<\/h2>\n<p>The Warriors have been aggressively pursuing another star to pair with Curry in their bid to extend their championship window.<\/p>\n<p>After their failed pursuits of\u00a0LeBron James,\u00a0Paul George\u00a0and\u00a0Lauri Markkanen\u00a0in the offseason, could they finally land one in Butler?<\/p>\n<p>Following the Warriors\u2019 latest loss \u2014 143-133 to the Mavericks\u00a0on December 15, team owner Joe Lacob hinted they aren\u2019t done making moves after the Schr\u00f6der acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrades are hard. I\u2019ve made this comment before,\u201d\u00a0Lacob told Tim Kawakami of The San Francisco Standard . \u201cThis one (Schr\u00f6der trade) was available for us at the right time, and hopefully another one, might be two. \u2026 Obviously, if we keep losing, I\u2019m going to want to \u2026 do something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next 25 games between now and the February 6 trade deadline will make or break this Warriors roster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is guarded by Klay Thompson of the Dallas Mavericks. 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