Whether you love or loathe the Warriors, their next few months are going to be fascinating.
Does Golden State hold onto the league’s most valuable draft asset at present — the top-three protected first-round pick it got from Minnesota in the D’Angelo Russell-Andrew Wiggins trade, which converts to an unprotected 2022 first if it doesn’t convey this year? Does it continue to be patient with the up-and-down development of rookie center James Wiseman, who just turned 20? The pick and the player represent the bridge to the post-Splash Brothers era, a reason for people to come to the Warriors’ gleaming year-old building in Mission Bay after Steph Curry and Klay Thompson are long gone.
