For a team that makes relatively few in-season transactions, and who drafted its core over a decade ago, the key moments for the Golden State Warriors’ roster tend to come in the offseason. The franchise has certainly had a whopping number of watershed summers that have propelled them to four titles and six Finals trips over this dynastic run.
The biggest was the summer they used the cap spike to sign Kevin Durant, sending an entire cavalcade to the Hamptons to pitch the Slim Reaper on joining up. What about three summers later, when Bob Myers and company turned Durant’s exit into D’Angelo Russell, flipping him for Andrew Wiggins and the pick that would become Jonathan Kuminga?