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00:00Let's go to Doug in Berkeley. Hi, Doug. What are you doing?
00:04Hey, I'm driving home after finishing a bicycle ride.
00:08All right. Nice, Doug.
00:11And I'm feeling pretty good. Are we in a good restaurant area? Can you hear me?
00:16Yeah, we got you loud and clear. Can't wait to hear what you got to say now. Let's go, Doug.
00:20Okay. Okay. So, two things.
00:24Okay. Number one, off-topic, as I said, I was on a bicycle ride, so I don't know if somebody's already mentioned this,
00:32but I must shout out to Bobby Bonilla's agent, manager.
00:40Well, he was an insurance salesman, I think, who arranged that contract.
00:46Today's the day he gets paid every year $1.9 million for another 10 years.
00:51Correct.
00:52Until he's 62. Unbelievable. I'd love to have that, even in today's inflated contract market.
01:02So, shout out to Bobby Bonilla.
01:03And then the next thing I want to say is Jonathan Kaminga.
01:08I think that unless there is now a clear-cut free agent who is clearly better than him,
01:16I think that we actually must keep him.
01:22And I think that the Warriors actually know more than, you know, we're wringing our hands about what to do, what to do.
01:28I think the Warriors probably have a little bit better finger on the pulse of what the league says he's worth than we know.
01:38So, I'm not going to get too stressed out about it.
01:44Nobody is mistaking Mike Dunleavy for our previous general manager.
01:52But he's doing the best he can with what he's got.
01:54Why do you say that, Doug?
01:57Well, I just said, I think he's doing the best he can with what he's got.
02:00I think that he's doing a more admirable job than people – because Bob Myers, you know, he was – he's well-respected.
02:08He was great.
02:10And there's a lot of comparisons.
02:14But I think that Dunleavy is doing okay.
02:18Okay.
02:18I think he's doing okay.
02:19I think he's giving him more time.
02:21Yeah, there was something in there that sort of sounded like you thought Dunleavy was kind of disappointing
02:25when you said nobody's mistaking him for Bob Myers.
02:28I mean, it's only been a couple of seasons, but I don't know what Mike Dunleavy has done so far
02:35that's kind of like been disappointing or blown up in his face.
02:38Do you see anything?
02:41I'm kind of with you, but, you know, you hear a lot.
02:44And, you know, you compare him to a guy that was there when four championships.
02:50I hear that a lot when I talk with my buddies, and you hear it a lot.
02:53It's alluded to on your station.
02:55So I'm just saying – I'm saying I'm – unusually – this is unusual, but I'm with you.
03:02I think we need to give him some more time, and let's see what happens.
03:06Yeah, Doug, Doug, thanks.
03:08I hope the bike ride was great.
03:10Yeah, I just look at, like, the headline of the Dunleavy era for me starts with a Jimmy Butler acquisition.
03:17And then you add in things like, you know, Quentin Post and Trace Jackson Davis,
03:22and then you can sprinkle in a little bit of a Klay Thompson sign-and-trade,
03:25which begot players that begot other things.
03:28And he's been able to shuffle the deck chairs to where you wind up with second-round picks
03:34that actually have stuck and stayed, and they're a part of what you're trying to do.
03:38And you added Jimmy Butler for all those pieces you brought in.
03:42All those pieces went back out, and it's kind of turned into Jimmy Butler.
03:45Don't forget Pajemski, either.
03:47I mean, like, I know that some people still have, you know, a jury's still out kind of a feel on Brandon Pajemski,
03:53but that is a somewhat late first-round pick that I would argue so far has been pretty good.
03:59And I'd like to tie the last offseason to the Jimmy Butler trade.
04:05Like, don't forget this.
04:07Remember where we were exactly a year ago.
04:10Who were the Warriors going after, and what did they want to do?
04:14What were all of our shows about this time last year?
04:18Plays for the Utah Jazz.
04:19His name is Lowry Markkinen.
04:20That's right.
04:21And the Warriors went after Lowry Markkinen.
04:24And I think that if you want to criticize Don Levy,
04:27I'll give you the thing you can criticize him for, but it didn't actually happen.
04:31But he tried to make it happen.
04:33The Warriors tried to get Paul George, and the Clippers wouldn't play nice,
04:37and so they didn't get Paul George.
04:39And you can criticize Mike for that if you want, because that would have been a horrible move, in my opinion.
04:45I don't think that would have worked out.
04:46But he didn't do it.
04:47So they went for a big name, and when they couldn't get the big name,
04:51they instead started to gather short-term contracts that they knew might be able to be a part of a financial deal at the deadline.
05:01It was like, all right, if we're not going to get a big name now, let's be ready to get a big name in February.
05:06And then they did.
05:07They packaged with Andrew Wiggins a bunch of those one-year deals that he signed,
05:12and they were able to turn those into Jimmy Butler, who then came here, and they won a bunch of basketball games.
05:18Pretty good move by a GM.
05:20Right.
05:21Pretty good move.
05:22Sometimes the moves you don't make or can't make are the best moves that you possibly can go through.
05:27And the Paul George is a great example, and even the Laurie Markkinen, where Danny Ainge was asking too much,
05:32and so that didn't happen, and Paul George didn't happen, and even Kevin Durant.
05:36He tried to package Jonathan Kaminga and a bunch of other stuff to get KD at the deadline,
05:41and KD said, nah, I'm good.
05:43And so you had to pivot to Jimmy Butler, who it turns out is probably a better fit than he was last year,
05:49and now for the next two years, it's probably a better short-term fit as well.
05:53So sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, but I do think that Mike Dunleavy's gone about doing this
05:59in the only way that they can, which is you've got Steph, the highest-paid player in the game,
06:04you've got Draymond on a contract that he didn't necessarily sign.
06:09He was a part of the team, but I think that was still Bob Myers and Joe Lacob,
06:12and so now you're trying to figure out how to build around the edges, and he's doing the best he can,
06:17and now he's faced with a big week this week on what to do with Kaminga.
06:21I think Mike Dunleavy's done a wonderful job so far.
06:25Obviously, you haven't had sort of the landmark stuff.
06:29I just don't think you've had any huge misses either.
06:32I don't think there's been any huge blunders.
06:35And so to say that he's not on Bob Myers' plane, okay, I get that.
06:40He oversaw championships, but he also oversaw a bunch of high-level draft picks
06:45that people now don't like.
06:47You know what I mean?
06:47James Wiseman, for starters.
06:51So, anyway, GPD in Oakland is next up.
06:54Hey, GPD.
06:54This is James Wiseman.
06:55Thanks, James.
06:56What up, GPD?
06:57What's up, James?
06:58What's up, baby?
07:00How's y'all doing, man?
07:01Hey, man.
07:02That's right.
07:03We're doing it.
07:03Well, so, you know, I just want to say, people, why are people so emotional?
07:12It's business.
07:14You know, let me say this.
07:16I want to say something about Kaminga.
07:19Good kid.
07:20Hey, he's a baller.
07:22He just don't rebound.
07:24He just don't do everything he's supposed to do.
07:26That dude sat there with some of the greatest minds in basketball for, what, three years, three years, four years.
07:34And what did he learn?
07:37He learned how to shoot more, shoot better, and that's it.
07:40So, here's the thing, bro.
07:42Here's the thing.
07:43People, all the people listening need to listen to this.
07:48It's business, baby.
07:50Let me tell you what happened.
07:52Over the weekend, I took my daughter to the first gymnastics class.
07:58She did great, and guess why?
08:01Because she listened to the instructor.
08:03She listened to her teacher.
08:06She finds gold.
08:09Bro, you how old you are, you can't even, and she's getting better by the day.
08:14I mean, it's only been one day, but she got better in one day.
08:18Listen to your teachers.
08:22Don't think that you're all that in the bag.
08:24It's just plus tats.
08:25Yeah, everybody wants to be a star.
08:27But there's more to being a star than just shooting the ball and balling out.
08:33So, here it is.
08:35I think that the Warriors actually will be better.
08:39You know why?
08:40Because they already got their big guy.
08:43They got Jimmy Butler.
08:44Yeah, everybody said, oh, look what happened, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
08:47But look what's going to happen next year.
08:51Quinn Post is going to get better.
08:53TJD is going to be better.
08:55Jimmy Butler, they're going to come together, and they're going to actually come together better.
09:00They're going to be balling.
09:01I got confidence in the fact that now that they got Jimmy Butler, he's going to get in from the beginning.
09:10Boy, they're going to be, I think they're going to be balling.
09:13I really do, guys.
09:14And people need to stop this with Kaminga about it ain't fair.
09:20Well, it ain't fair when my boss fired me when I wasn't doing my job right.
09:24But, Jim, if you guys don't do your job right, what's going to happen to you?
09:29It's too soon, Grandpa Daddy.
09:30It's too soon.
09:31And it's already happened by this very company and this very station.
09:35But you're not wrong, and I appreciate the call, Grandpa Daddy.
09:38Thanks, JPD.
09:39I just hesitate to look at guys who were your 9th, 10th, and 11th men last year and think they're going to get better,
09:47and that's going to be the difference.
09:49Now, is Quentin going to get better?
09:51I hope so.
09:51And Guy and TJD, are they all going to get better as younger players?
09:56Well, they better get better because that's your job as a pro basketball player.
10:01But to think that that is going to be the elixir or the cure for what ails you,
10:07that's where I kind of put the brakes a little bit.
10:09I don't disagree with you, but I guess my question back to you is do the Warriors need to be fixed?
10:17Yeah.
10:17Quote, what ails you?
10:19What ails them?
10:19Well, the biggest ailment, I think, is age and depth.
10:24Okay.
10:24Well, that's, I mean, look, the age thing is what it is.
10:28Correct.
10:29There was nothing that was going to happen in July to change that.
10:31Right.
10:32But I do look at your depth, and Kavon is gone, and it looks like GP2 is also going to be gone.
10:37And I know that he fought ailments and injury throughout the year.
10:41Kavon was mostly healthy and there for you, but as you look now at your depth, and you
10:46look beyond your starting five, and I don't even know who your starting five would be on
10:50this day, July 1st, but you look at your second five, and you're looking at guys like Quentin
10:56Post in the second year, and Guy Santos, and TJD, who didn't play a lot.
11:00And so, you've got buttered who's down there as well.
11:04There are going to be new players coming.
11:05I understand.
11:06They're coming.
11:06But as we sit here, it looks to me like the things that concern me are age, which you can't
11:12really fix.
11:13You're pot committed on that.
11:14Yeah.
11:15And your depth, which I'm not totally sold on these players being able to step up.
11:18I understand that.
11:20I get that.
11:21But I do think that, again, we do forget that the Warriors were good.
11:26They were good.
11:28So, you know what I mean?
11:29Like, were they good enough?
11:30No.
11:31Were they healthy enough?
11:32No.
11:33Does that mean that that's going to happen exactly that way this year?
11:36No.
11:36It could.
11:37That's an omnipresent threat.
11:39No question about it.
11:41But, you know, like, put it this way.
11:44This is not a perfect comp, but it's not an imperfect one either.
11:47The Minnesota Timberwolves, what have they done this offseason?
11:52What have they done?
11:53Well, they pretty much are running it back.
11:55Kind of.
11:56They brought back.
11:56They've re-signed two of their big names, and one key contributor is gone.
12:02Walker Alexander is gone.
12:04All right?
12:05So, have they cured what ails them?
12:09Because they fell short.
12:11Or could we say, well, they're really good?
12:14Except for in the same breath, the Warriors were up 1-0 on them,
12:17and a lot of people I know think that they would have beat them
12:19if Steph hadn't gotten hurt.
12:21Yeah, that's a hypothetical.
12:22Of course it is.
12:22And you can think whatever you want to think.
12:24All of these things are.
12:26Like, would the Niners have beaten Philadelphia if Brock Purdy's arm didn't fall off?
12:29I don't believe so.
12:31And that's fine.
12:31Some do.
12:32But the larger question is, is if you don't win at all,
12:35does that mean something ails you?
12:36Or did it just not land your way this time?
12:40I really think that that's a question, and you can answer it however you want,
12:44but every Warrior fan should ask themselves,
12:47is there something actually, like, just glaringly wrong with the Warriors?
12:51Nothing's glaringly wrong with you.
12:53I don't think so.
12:53But you, I don't think that you could look at it and say,
12:56oh, that's a championship team.
12:58And I look around the Western Conference,
13:00and I see other teams that have already gotten better than you.
13:03And, you know, you weren't lucky to beat Houston,
13:07but Houston is already better now than they were when you beat them two months ago.
13:11In theory.
13:12Right, on paper.
13:13But they got older, therefore their injury risk goes up to...
13:17Right, they got older.
13:17Shingun is now 24 instead of 23.
13:20I get that.
13:20Their star is, what, 36.
13:23Right.
13:23Kevin Durant.
13:24That should be their leading scorer.
13:25Yes, but they've got a much deeper and younger team.
13:28So I don't think you look at Houston and think,
13:30oh, you know, catch my breath, they're old.
13:32Fred Van Vliet's like 32, and he's your sixth best player.
13:36No, but if Kevin Durant gets hurt on that team going into the playoffs next year,
13:39that's not, they're not a threat, in my opinion.
13:41Right, and same thing with Steph Curry.
13:43Absolutely.
13:43As you said, he's going to be 37.
13:45Absolutely.
13:45And he's going to be even older.
13:47Same thing with Anthony Edwards.
13:48And same thing with Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler.
13:50So, if you want to play the age game,
13:52like, you've got older guys more likely to get hurt,
13:56and we talked about Achilles injuries,
13:57and the majority of those guys were older guys who hurt their Achilles,
14:01and so that's what you're looking down the gauntlet of as an older team.
14:05I just, there's, and that is omnipresent, and we knew that already.
14:09I guess my point is, is the journey still needs to unfold.
14:12So we'll sit here today and go, well, that's not a championship roster,
14:16except for six weeks ago, a lot of people were like,
14:20I think they got a puncher's chance.
14:22And now it's like, but now you have to make wholesale changes.
14:25Why?
14:27Why?
14:28And, by the way, you can't.
14:30You can't.
14:30Well, why is a different question than the answer of you can't,
14:34because, yes, you can't.
14:35And why would be because you need to be better.
14:38You weren't good enough to get by Minnesota.
14:41Yeah, Steph got hurt, sure.
14:43You weren't good enough to get by OKC, in my opinion.
14:45We'll never know, because they didn't get a chance to play him.
14:48And then the NBA Finals, who knows?
14:49You still were, you wound up with five wins instead of 16.
14:53It's not like you won 13.
14:55I didn't think they were going to win, but they definitely were one of the,
14:59I don't know, six or seven classiest teams in the NBA.
15:04Like, they were definitely one of the teams that I was like, right,
15:07the playoffs started, they were one of the top five in odds.
15:10They were one of the teams where you were like.
15:11They were one of the last eight playing.
15:12Yeah.
15:13That, to me, is more important than the odds.
15:14Because the odds are always going to be skewed toward a team that draws the most action.
15:18Maybe, but they were in the last eight and had a leg up to be last four until Steph got hurt.
15:23Again, I'm not sitting here telling you they were going to win it.
15:26I never thought they would.
15:27But I can also look at them and go, yeah, they're in the mix.
15:32That's a pretty good basketball team.
15:35And then we pop out the other side with one hamstring injury,
15:38and I keep hearing people want wholesale changes.
15:41I'm not saying you don't tweak it, get better,
15:44but wholesale changes was never part of the ingredients.
15:47You can't make wholesale changes unless you want to go full Boston
15:50and take two of your top four highest paid guys and ship them out for less.
15:56I wouldn't want to even if they could.
15:59Well, they're not going to, so I don't even know what we're talking about.
16:02We're talking about them getting better on the margins.
16:05And if Draymond and Steph and Jimmy Butler are your top three players,
16:09how do you get players four through ten to be better than they were last year?
16:14That, for me, is what the job is right now.
16:16Absolutely.
16:17If that means Kaminga comes back and he plays better and he plays a bigger role,
16:22that would be ideal.
16:23But I don't know if that is really on his mind or their mind
16:27because it feels to me like that relationship is not in a place where he could come back
16:32and play for whatever they'll pay him and fit in the way that they want him to fit in.
16:39888-957-957.
16:40Let's go to Chris in Half Moon Bay.
16:43Hi, Chris.
16:43What's going on?
16:44Hey, fellas.
16:46Okay.
16:47Here's my take.
16:48I know you guys got a different take.
16:50I just heard your take on that.
16:51But it's championship or bust.
16:53We have a two-year window.
16:55Two-year where Steph's going to be at championship level.
16:58Two-year window.
16:59Championship or bust.
17:00That means I don't care about three years from now or five years from now
17:05or ten years from now what the team looks like, who's on it.
17:07It's two years right now, and that means all in, and that means Giannis.
17:12And I know, like, it can't be done.
17:14It's contracts and stuff.
17:15If you're the Lakers, you figure out a way to do it.
17:18The Lakers have always figured out a way to do it.
17:20Creativity with draft picks.
17:22And, yeah, Taminga's gone.
17:24If you want a guy that's going to score 23 on a mid-level playoff team
17:28and then, you know, disappear in the playoffs when it's crunch time
17:32to hit that three-pointer to win the game, okay, keep the team,
17:36keep the roster you've got.
17:37They weren't going to win last year, although it was fun,
17:40and they're not going to win next year without a big change.
17:44So package up some guys, clear some cap space,
17:47get rid of draft picks for the next ten years because you've got two years.
17:51Two years with Steph.
17:53Let's get rings.
17:54I know you guys went through it.
17:55I went through the 80s, 90s, and aughts with this team.
17:59If we've got a chance for a ring now, this year, next year, get it.
18:05Chris, you never know when that chance is going to come again.
18:07Well, first of all, with your idea, I can promise you it will never come again
18:12over the next 20 years, and that's fine.
18:14I'm not even going to call you crazy, Chris.
18:16What I'm going to say to you, though,
18:18is that what you're saying sort of sounds like a campaign promise.
18:22In other words, boy, does it sound great.
18:26All in.
18:27Push everything in the middle.
18:29I don't care about anything after the next two years.
18:31That sounds wonderful, but I literally want to know, based on CBA rules,
18:37how you even consider getting this done.
18:41And I know that the windhorses of the world and whatnot have been on TV in the past
18:45going like, is there a path to a Yonestee deal?
18:48So, like, I mean, in theory, in theory, it's, like, legal.
18:53You could do it.
18:54I do want you to understand, just as a baseline so we don't get too complex,
18:59if the Warriors were to go get Yonestee, it doesn't mean package some guys in some picks.
19:05It means your team would be Steph, Yonestee, Butler, and nothing but minimum salaries.
19:11Like, literally junk.
19:14That would be your team.
19:15Do you actually think that team would win?
19:18Okay.
19:19Well, I'm not fully on board with your assessment of that.
19:23There'll be some other players there.
19:25No.
19:25No.
19:25No, Chris.
19:26I'm telling you.
19:27CBA rules.
19:28Like, we've done the math.
19:30I'm telling you.
19:31You're renouncing rights to players.
19:33You're sending everyone to Milwaukee and minimum salaries.
19:38That is it.
19:40Well, okay, guys.
19:43I'm telling you that we need to get longer and more athletic in the low post area.
19:50And if we don't do that, yeah, we'll make the playoffs next year.
19:54We're not winning rings the next two years.
19:56And that's the end of the Steph era.
19:57And I'd just like to see a push in.
20:00And I hate to say it because you guys are going to flip out.
20:03Yeah.
20:03That means Jimmy's on the table.
20:05And I love him.
20:06And he's done great.
20:08But if that's what it takes.
20:10Yeah.
20:10When he's not tradable until August.
20:12So, Chris, thanks.
20:14Again, I don't want to get, like, I understand.
20:16I don't want to get into all of the rules and machinations and all of this stuff.
20:21What you said there at the end, I'm fine with.
20:23If you think the Warriors need to get longer and more athletic, I agree with you.
20:27Giannis is not the answer to that.
20:28It's just not feasible.
20:31It's not doable.
20:32You could trade Jimmy for him straight up.
20:34They make the exact same amount of money.
20:36And you could package four first-round picks and three pick swaps.
20:41And you could do it if Milwaukee was ready to punt on that.
20:44And it could be Steph and Giannis and Draymond and all the rest of your squad.
20:49Does that mean that you're going to go out there and be a title team?
20:52I personally don't think so.
20:54And then in two years when those guys are all gone, you're left with no picks and pretty much no players and no hope.
21:01And they're not going to do that.
21:02And again, Jimmy, not even tradable yet.
21:04So you couldn't even get into that conversation right now.
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