Stephen Curry made headlines earlier in the week when he said the Golden State Warriors should not mortgage the future on a desperate win-now trade. Read between the lines of what he said — echoing comments by Draymond Green and Steve Kerr — and it’s “Don’t trade four guys for Jimmy Butler. Don’t give up a bunch of players and picks get Zach LaVine.” Curry’s right. Those guys don’t change the Warriors fortunes for the positive, neither does anyone we know to be available. Wait for the right deal(s).
Of course, that’s not how a segment of the NBA’s online fan base took it. There was a lot of clickbaity “Curry, Warriors wave white flag” headlines and posts after those comments. After the Warriors win over Minnesota Wednesday, Curry fired back (via NBC Sports Bay Area). First were his remarks in a postgame interview on ESPN’s SportsCenter:
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