The Golden State Warriors somehow have both an obvious strategy for NBA trade season and a potentially impossible puzzle to solve between now and the Feb. 5 trade deadline. A Jonathan Kuminga deal feels near-certain (unless it maybe doesn't?), but how high can and should this club aim for an upgrade? What exactly is the value of a fifth-year player who's not guaranteed nightly minutes? And how hard should a roughly .500 team really push in the fully loaded West?
The Athletic's Sam Vecenie recently attempted to tackle the topic on the Game Theory Podcast, and while a few (uninspiring) names were mentioned, the best summation of the talk might have been his admission that "I don't know what to do if I'm Golden State.