Golden State Warriors: 5 Potential Low-Cost Trade Targets

3. Sean Kilpatrick

The Warriors’ bench is one of the stingiest in the league, but it’s still only averaging 29.8 points per game, which ranks 27th in the NBA. Defense is what will matter in the playoffs, but if the Dubs want to add some extra scoring to their second unit, Sean Kilpatrick is one avenue they could consider.

In his third NBA season, Kilpatrick has finally found his footing in the NBA, averaging 13.7 points and 4.1 rebounds in 26.3 minutes per game for the Brooklyn Nets. He’s only shooting 42 percent from the field, but he’s making respectable 35 percent of his attempts from three-point territory.

With Kilpatrick’s value the highest it’s ever been, a team that’s desperate for future first round picks like Brooklyn would happily take whatever it can get for a third-year player on a minimum contract through 2017-18.

The Warriors’ 2019 pick would probably be somewhere in the late 20s, but for a team that doesn’t own its own first-rounder until 2019, adding whatever it can makes sense. They’re already terrible with Kilpatrick, so losing him in service of a future first-rounder can wouldn’t really make matters that much worse.

To match salaries, the Nets would also get James Michael McAdoo. The Warriors, meanwhile, would have a player making less than $1 million for this season and next season, putting a solid 27-year-old bench scorer in a championship environment.

But if the Dubs aren’t sold on Kilpatrick’s ability to fulfill that role, since adjusting from the move to the NBA’s worst team to its best team would come with some turbulence, giving up a first-rounder for him might be a bit much, even if it’ll probably be at the end of the first round.