Golden State Warriors: Adding Kevin Durant A Bad Thing?

In typical Woj fashion, a bomb was dropped on the world from Adrian Wojnarowski’s Twitter account linking an article from The Vertical about the Golden State Warriors becoming more of a threat to land Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant this summer once he becomes a free agent.

From a macro level, why wouldn’t the Warriors want to add Durant, arguably the best offensive player on the planet, to play alongside the two best pure shooters walking the Earth in Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson? It would seem as if the championship trophy would be theirs for years on end if this deal were to go through. Or would it?

Don’t forget, just because a roster looks good on paper, doesn’t mean that the team is guaranteed to walk away with a championship immediately (we saw that with LeBron James in Miami). It’s pretty obvious, but team chemistry takes time to form and without that being perfected, the chance of being crowned as champions drops significantly.

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The Warriors have laid the blueprint of how to build a juggernaut that consists of a group of unselfish players whose main goal is to win. They aren’t worried about who is scoring, just as long as it means it will give them the lead, or in this year’s case, put them up by 20-plus points as they stomp pretty much any opponent that is put in front of them.

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But as in any professional sports league, a dynasty of the same players can only last so long. The San Antonio Spurs are an exception with the players in Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and especially Tim Duncan–who would be the first to elect a lighter contract in order for them to obtain the right pieces to put together a championship roster.

Now with the salary cap rising this summer, players are going to look to cash out on huge deals. Players who shouldn’t necessarily get max deals will, simply because teams will have to use the money.

Bobby Marks, also of The Vertical, laid out several moves that the Warriors could make in order to acquire Durant. A few include trading Andre Iguodala, letting go of Harrison Barnes, and exercising the stretch provision on Andrew Bogut.

The addition of Durant would certainly suffice for the loss of those three players, even though they can be looked at as the glue player to the current Warriors roster.

Ethan Sherwood Strauss brought up another great point for acquiring Durant:

The Warriors don’t seem to need any help as of right now in terms of being threatened to repeat as champions if they can keep the pace they are on now, but once this summer comes and free agency hits, they are likely to lose players whether they like it or not. Barnes is the first that comes to mind.

The rise in salary cap will call for teams like the Nets or Lakers to give a player such as Barnes a ridiculous amount of money that will be difficult for him to turn down. That being the case, the Warriors might as well take advantage by getting one of the top players in the world.

A starting lineup of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, and Festus Ezeli could be arguably the best starting five of all time.

Would it work?

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It’s hard imagining it wouldn’t, but it would definitely take time to adjust to Durant’s presence on the floor.