Warriors trade idea lands $38 million NBA champion to help Steph Curry, Draymond Green

Billy Heyen

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The Golden State Warriors are mostly stuck.

They've committed to this core group of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler. They're making another run at a championship.

One problem: This group hasn't seemed good enough to approach a title.

Is there any way to fix it? A trade would be the main possibility, and maybe there's a chance.

The guy that ESPN's Kevin Pelton has suggested in a new article on Tuesday: Michael Porter Jr. 

MPJ is in his first season with the Brooklyn Nets and averaging more than 25 points per game. He was previously an NBA champion with the Denver Nuggets.

"Porter's $38 million salary could be added without sending out Draymond Green, though that would surely require including Moses Moody. Golden State has plenty of depth on the wing, but not enough clear starters like Porter," Pelton writes. "Adding another knockdown shooter -- Porter has hit 40.8% of his 3s this season -- with the size to play the Harrison Barnes/Kevin Durant role would invigorate Warriors lineups with Green at center and perhaps unlock an aspiring contender that has been more pretender thus far."

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The most encouraging part of acquiring Porter would be his experience on a team where he didn't get a lot of the ball and yet won anyway.

He's gotten to be more ball dominant in Brooklyn. That wouldn't be the case in Golden State.

The Warriors would take solace in the fact that Porter got the job done playing alongside Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.

That's not the exact same makeup as Golden State, but there'd be a lot of the same principles involved.

If this deal is out there for the Warriors, they should seriously consider it. They need a jolt from somewhere.

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