{"id":327613,"date":"2026-05-22T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327613\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:34:12","slug":"can-warriors-draft-another-rotation-player-with-their-2nd-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327613\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Warriors draft another rotation player with their 2nd-round pick?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golden State Warriors<\/a> general manager Mike Dunleavy<\/a> didn\u2019t mince his message about the NBA draft this year and the ways it can help his team improve. As he said on Friday at his annual season-ending news conference at Chase Center: \u201cHaving the 11th pick and the 54th pick are two ways we can definitely add to the roster, improve, and then we\u2019ll roll into free agency and see what we can do there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Warriors are positioned to acquire an impact player next month with their lottery pick, but Dunleavy the last three years mined the second round for rotational contributors. Trayce Jackson-Davis,<\/a> Quinten Post<\/a> and Will Richard<\/a> the last three years have cracked the lineup as second-round picks selected 52nd or later.<\/p>\n

Surely, Dunleavy has his sights on scoring again in a second round with a cap-sheet crunch caused by lucrative commitments to Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green. Their pre-draft workouts are underway with a fleet of seniors training Wednesday afternoon at Chase Center: Louisville guard Ryan Conwell, Tennessee guard Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie, Houston guard Emanuel Sharp, Florida State senior Robert McCray, Duke forward Maliq Brown and Miami center Ernest Udeh.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave a lot of experience,\u201d Sharp said after his workout when asked about the benefits of a four-year career. \u201cI\u2019ve played in a lot of road games. A lot of packed out games. I\u2019ve been in a lot of big moments. I\u2019m a veteran player. I\u2019ve played all types of players. I\u2019ve competed at the highest level in college basketball. \u2026 I think that just prepares you for the next level because I\u2019ve played with and against a lot of guys that are already in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden State\u2019s pick in the lottery is likely to land multifaceted skill while second-round picks toward the end of the draft might typically target a trait or two. For Jackson-Davis, it was rebounding, for Post it was size and 3-point shooting, and for Richard his length and catch-and-cast shooting.<\/p>\n

All three draftees also played four-plus years in college, easing their transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cCame in with a really strong fundamental base. They\u2019re just ready to play in a lot of ways because they had so much experience beforehand,\u201d head coach Steve Kerr said in November about the trio of second-round picks. \u201cI do think the college experience, especially playing in big games \u2026 feeling all of that and learning to execute under pressure, it all matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden State through the draft and free agency stands to add more positional size, 3-point shooting across the lineup, ballhandling and athleticism. The lottery pick will likely plug a few of those holes with a sizable role, but don\u2019t count out Dunleavy scoring again in the second round.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s done it before, after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll just draft who we think is going to be the best player for us with our franchise moving forward,\u201d Dunleavy said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019ve always done. Particularly the last few years, we were pretty good about it\u00a0\u2014 whether it\u2019s first or second round, whatever. We\u2019re a little higher this year, but we\u2019ll take the same approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy didn\u2019t mince his message about the NBA draft this year and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7000,81651,101,103,102,104,106,105,127,13340],"class_list":["post-327613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-mike-dunleavy","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}