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The Golden State Warriors have won four championships with 36-year-old Stephen Curry and 34-year-old Draymond Green leading the way, but the future is still somewhat uncertain given their age.
They reportedly want to change that with another superstar addition.
“They’re trying to figure out who that next star is for this organization,” ESPN’s Shams Charania said Tuesday on NBA Today. “Is it going to be internally? We’ve seen they’ve given Jonathan Kuminga the starting spot, then he gets out of the starting spot. The ebbs and flows that have come with him, Brandin Podziemski.
“But they have been on that hunt for a superstar player right now to pair with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, but also who’s that next guy going to be? They went after Lauri Markkanen, Paul George in the offseason, missed out on both of them. That’s their next find.”
Of course, finding the perfect superstar to complement the pieces already in place and then eventually take the torch is much easier said than done in the NBA.
Golden State had an incredible run of draft success with Curry in 2009, Klay Thompson in 2011 and Green in 2012, so perhaps the answer to its concern lies in future NBA drafts. It also added Kevin Durant via free agency in 2016, creating a superteam that reached the sport’s mountaintop.
The immediate future is much less clear for this version of the Warriors.
Curry’s presence means they likely aren’t going to finish with a high enough draft pick to realistically expect to land a franchise-altering superstar. But they are also in eighth place in the Western Conference standings and likely don’t have a championship ceiling this season.
That puts them stuck in something of a middle ground, so it’s no surprise the franchise is looking to find a way out of it.
If it does, the rest of the NBA may once again be in trouble with the franchise looking for its fifth championship since the start of the 2014-15 season.
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