The Santa Cruz Warriors acquired NBA veteran Jonathon Simmons last week.
Did Golden State think about signing him instead?
"We actually had conversations with him months back. He was in one of our free agent workouts in the offseason leading up to the preseason, and came very close to offering him a training camp contract," Kent Lacob, Director of Team Development, revealed on "Warriors Outsiders" last Saturday night. "For several reasons, it didn't end up happening. We ended up bringing in Marquese Chriss and that worked out pretty well.
"But Jonathon has been on our radar.