Golden State Warriors: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason

Overall

The Golden State Warriors will open new Chase Arena with a bunch of new faces in 2019-20, as their dynasty era could be closing.

Indeed, the Warriors appear destined to move closer to the pack in the Western Conference after winning five straight conference titles.

Golden State will still be good — any team with Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson (when healthy again at its core can’t help but be among the NBA’s elites — but the question will be how good.

D’Angelo Russell joins the Warriors as a seemingly less-than-ideal fit for a system that has found success in sharing the basketball and much more talent has left the organization than has been brought back in.

Championship staples Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala are gone, as are a collection of proven role players led by Shaun Livingston.

In their place are youngsters looking to move up the rotation, rookies trying to establish themselves as NBA players and journeymen either lacking upside or with more questions than answers about their ability to transition into the Warriors way of doing things.

The sign-and-trade to acquire Russell will also hamper Golden State’s flexibility this season, as they will be hard-capped at the luxury tax apron of $132.63 million and have just $6.06 million remaining to work with (a figure that could rise by $1.59 million if Alfonzo McKinnie‘s non-guaranteed deal is waived before the regular season starts).

The Warriors will go into the 2020 offseason with almost $21.7 million in Traded Player Exceptions, but those exceptions won’t do them a lot of good against a hard cap in 2018-19.

General manager Bob Myers was tasked with making chicken salad out of … less than quality ingredients, shall we say … but it still feels he could have gotten more.

Grade: C-