Why Warriors don’t feel urgency to make NBA trade deadline move

Why Myers, Warriors don’t feel urgency to make trade originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea

SAN FRANCISCO – The Warriors traditionally approach the NBA trade deadline with a specific philosophy. If scanning the roster produces a frown, grab phones and start calling. If it inspires confidence, keep an eye on the phones.

With the Warriors sitting at 39-13 – second-best record in the league – one week before the Feb. 10 deadline, Bob Myers exuded belief.

“I don’t think we feel urgency,” he said Thursday. “But we’re always listening and talking. We’ll see if something comes up.”

That approach was last exercised in 2018-19, the most recent season in which the Warriors were in the championship race. They made no trades, opting to add emergency center Andrew Bogut to a team that reached the NBA Finals.

That was the last of the three seasons Kevin Durant spent on the roster, and the Warriors slept through each of those deadlines – just as they did the two seasons before KD arrived in July 2016. Five years, not one deadline trade.

It was the right call, as they reached the NBA Finals in each season.

As a borderline playoff team last season, the Warriors made low-impact deals, trading backup guard Brad Wanamaker and backup center Marquese Chriss for draft options and cash. They saw no carrot to chase.

The previous season, in which the injury-ravaged Warriors posted the third-worst record in their Bay Area history, they were hyperactive. They saw a chance to bolster their future and unloaded six players in three separate trades, getting in return getting then-24-year-old Andrew Wiggins and a lottery pick that allowed them to draft Jonathan Kuminga.

This season, however, the most likely deadline additions already are on the roster: Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and James Wiseman. All three happen to be inactive but are expected to return in the coming weeks.

“If I was being told, ‘Don’t count on Draymond coming back,’ we would react differently,”…