Warriors’ Stephen Curry will get good gesture from James Harden earlier than preseason conflict

Forward of the Golden State Warriors’ first preseason sport, Los Angeles Clippers taking pictures guard James Harden was having some enjoyable by becoming a member of the screaming followers in cheering for Stephen Curry as he walked on the courtroom earlier than the sport. Harden’s yell of Steph’s title can barely be heard over the roar of the gang.

“Curryyyy!!”

It is laborious to know what to anticipate with the Warriors and Clippers this yr. It is in all probability not going to be a really enjoyable season for both workforce.

Paul George is now not in LA and joined the Philadelphia 76ers. It is unclear when Kawhi Leonard will be capable of play. And Harden is not getting any youthful, now 35 years outdated.

Klay Thompson is on the Dallas Mavericks. Buddy Hield is a wonderful shooter to take his place, however Golden State is in a brand new period. Jonathan Kuminga, coming into his fourth season with Golden State, should proceed to supply a scoring spark in an expanded position. Brandin Podziemski, the Warriors’ 2023 first-round choose, can be tasked to play large minutes this yr as nicely. A skinny frontcourt might be uncovered if any Draymond Inexperienced antics lead to a suspension (whether or not imposed by the NBA or the workforce.)

Projecting the 2024-25 Golden State Warriors

It appears virtually laborious to consider that the Warriors are solely a few years faraway from profitable a title, their fourth in eight years. Followers and pundits have been speaking a few dynasty. However the 2022-23 season resulted in a first-round bounce in opposition to the Los Angeles Lakers because the No. 6 seed, and the Warriors could not even eke out a playoff spot, ending tenth within the West.

The Chris Paul experiment had clearly failed. The departure of Jordan Poole to the Washington Wizards proved to value the Warriors an excessive amount of offense. Andrew Wiggins wasn’t the identical or as constant as he was throughout their earlier title run. So, the place do the Warriors go from right here? This makes extra headlines from Draymond Inexperienced’s antics that their wins on the courtroom.

In the event you ask Inexperienced, the Warriors will get again to their profitable methods by sheer pressure of will, per Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic.

“I do know I ain’t finished. I do know [Curry] ain’t finished. So it ain’t like, ‘All proper, I really feel like I’m on the finish. I’m cashing it in.’ Nah. We will do this s**t once more. I do know we are able to do it once more. I’m not part of the consortium that don’t suppose we are able to get it finished,” Inexperienced stated.

The 2024-25 NBA common season begins on Tuesday, October 22.