Sources: Broken wrist likely ends LaMelo’s season

The Golden State Warriors made the first major trade of the 24-25 season by acquiring Dennis Schroder and plan to continue to be aggressive leading to the trade deadline. Over the past year, the Warriors have pursued trades for LeBron James, Lauri Markkanen, Paul George and Jimmy Butler.

“We’re always aggressive,” Mike Dunleavy said on a conference call to discuss the Schroder addition. “You got to be mindful of what you’re giving up, what you’re getting back, all those things. But anything to do to make the team better, we’re going to do.

“We’re in a time zone here of maximizing our window with Steph, Draymond and Steve [Kerr] as our coach. So as proven here on the first day we could basically make trades with certain players, we did that… For the most part I feel good about this team, particularly on the defensive end and now we have a player that we think could create and generate more offense for us. I want to evaluate and see, but we’ll always be looking at stuff.”

The Warriors had a need in the backcourt following the season-ending injury to De’Anthony Melton.

The future of James Jones was uncertain when Mat Ishbia assumed ownership of the Phoenix Suns in February.

On of Ishbia’s first big personnel moves was hiring Josh Bartelstein to oversee both business and basketball for the franchise, placing someone ahead of Jones on the org chart.

But Jones has embraced the challenge and retains strong influence, which has left him energized, reports ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.

“Josh was hired as the CEO and I wanted him to come in and lead as the CEO,” Jones said. “Mat became the owner and I was ready for him to come in and set the direction as owner. We had been in limbo for far too long.”

Jones was a driving force in the decision to fire Monty Williams, sources tell Windhorst.