{"id":113256,"date":"2024-12-19T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=113256"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:29:50","slug":"teams-interested-kevon-looney-golden-state-warriors-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/12\/19\/teams-interested-kevon-looney-golden-state-warriors-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams Are Interested in Poaching Champion from Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden State Warriors<\/a> made the biggest trade of the young NBA season so far. On December 15, the Warriors acquired veteran guard Dennis Schroder<\/a> from the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>. Shortly after the Warriors made this trade, many wondered what could be next for the Warriors. Though nothing is official, NBA insider Jake Fischer shed some light on which Warriors player is garnering interest around the league. According to Fischer, other NBA teams have expressed interest in acquiring big man Kevon Looney<\/a> in a trade with the Warriors (subscription required<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After swiftly addressing its need for a secondary scorer behind Stephen Curry<\/a> with Sunday’s acquisition of Dennis Schr\u00f6der<\/a>, Golden State is still evaluating its own center rotation, sources say. The Warriors have famously filled minutes with defensive savant Draymond Green<\/a> at the five spot. And while Steve Kerr<\/a> is known to hold great affinity for Kevon Looney, Golden State’s veteran center has garnered plenty of early interest from around the league, sources say, as the Warriors consider whether or not to add another piece to a rotation that also features standout sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis<\/a>. Before ceding the role back to Looney recently, Jackson-Davis started 18 games this season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Teams Are Interested in Poaching Champion from Warriors<\/h2>\n

Kevon Looney Has Been in Trade Rumors Before<\/h3>\n

It is unknown how likely the Warriors are to trade Looney. What is known, however, is that the Warriors have flirted with the idea of moving on from Looney in the past. In June, Tim Kawakami of The San Francisco Standard suggested that Golden State was likely to move on<\/a> from Looney last offseason. This, of course, never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto also recently reported<\/a> that multiple teams had interest in Looney in the offseason. Scotto mentioned the New York Knicks,<\/a> Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>, and Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> as three teams who explored a trade for him.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Looney revealed that, while he would like to retire with the Warriors, he knows “that’s not realistic.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ball isn\u2019t in my court,\u201d Looney said. \u201cI don\u2019t have full control over my destiny, so I kind of have to play the waiting game, control what I can control. I\u2019ve been here my whole career. I don\u2019t know nothing else. You always want to finish what you started and be somewhere for your whole career, but I\u2019ve been in this business long enough to know that\u2019s not realistic. I\u2019m preparing myself for whatever. My family\u2019s out here, the Bay\u2019s been great to me. They treat me like family, I grew up here. \u201cI haven\u2019t really thought about it too far. I\u2019m trying to see what they\u2019re going to do first before I push the envelope and see what I want to do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Last Word<\/h3>\n

Multiple reports have indicated that the Warriors have interest in a trade. The most likely target for them is Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler<\/a>. However, the trade deadline is still a couple of months away. A lot can change from now until then.<\/p>\n

The Warriors began the season 12-3. Since then, they have lost eight of their last 10 games. Now with a 14-11 record, the Warriors own the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference. As they look to maximize their remaining championship window with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, they are a team to monitor during the trade season. In the meantime, the Warriors will aim to turn things around on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Golden State Warriors made the biggest trade of the young NBA season so far. On December 15, the Warriors acquired veteran guard Dennis Schroder from the Brooklyn Nets. Shortly after the Warriors made this trade, many wondered what could be next for the Warriors. Though nothing is official, NBA insider Jake Fischer shed some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":111517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,25,62,3,4721],"tags":[1965],"class_list":["post-113256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-warriors","category-nba","category-news","category-trade-rumors","tag-kevon-looney"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113261,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113256\/revisions\/113261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}