The Golden State Warriors lost at home to the LA Clippers on Wednesday. That dropped the Warriors to 26-26 on the season. That’s a perfectly average record, which is exactly what Golden State star Stephen Curry says his team is.
“We’re very average,” Curry said. “Very average doesn’t get it done in this league. We need to make a run, hopefully, we bounce back tomorrow and after the All-Star break hit a stride where we win every game [at home] and steal a few on the road.
“We’ve been very average so far, so we have to regain that home-court fear that we have grown accustomed to in the past.”
The Warriors are in 10th place in the Western Conference, which is the final spot in the Play-In Tournament. They are two games behind the ninth-place Los Angeles Lakers, and only 1.5 games ahead of the 11th-place Utah Jazz.
Despite receiving interest from the Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers ahead of the trade deadline, the Los Angeles Lakers were never close to trading LeBron James. In fact, the Lakers have made it known that their preference is to keep James moving forward.
Rival executives don’t know if James has the same feelings towards the Lakers.
There remains speculation that James desire to play with his son Bronny will be a major factor in what team he plays for in the future. If another team drafts the younger James, his superstar father could choose to go to that team. There’s also a belief that the elder James desire to play with his son could push the Lakers to draft Bronny.
The Lakers ability to potentially land a star ballhandler could factor into James’ willingness to stay too. Los Angeles is known to have some level of interest in Dejounte Murray and Zach LaVine. The Lakers could also think bigger and could look to add an All-Star level player like Trae Young, Donovan Mitchell or Kyrie Irving.
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