{"id":368416,"date":"2026-06-20T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:22:39","slug":"warriors-want-kawhi-leonard-but-have-intriguing-backup-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368416\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors want Kawhi Leonard but have intriguing backup option"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the NBA offseason ongoing, it appears the Warriors are committed to acquiring another star to play alongside Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n

The Warriors have expressed significant interest in acquiring Kawhi Leonard and have viewed Trey Murphy as another option, ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater reported.<\/p>\n

\"BasketballKawhi Leonard is drawing interest from the Warriors. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The interest in Leonard dates back to last season\u2019s trade deadline, when a source confirmed to Slater <\/a>that the Warriors attempted to trade for Leonard but were eventually told \u201cno\u201d by Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.<\/p>\n

The reports of the Warriors\u2019 interest in Leonard were doubled down on Friday morning as Sam Amick of The Athletic<\/a> reported that the Warriors have Leonard in their \u201cPlan A\u201d list as they appear to be very interested in acquiring the two-time Finals MVP. But Amick noted that nobody in the NBA knows if Leonard is available.<\/p>\n

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As it remains unknown if Leonard is available, it appears more likely that Golden State could look into a trade with the Pelicans for Murphy. Golden State holds the 11th pick of the NBA draft, and reports have indicated the Pelicans are looking to move him for a pick in the top 20.<\/p>\n

At 26 years old, Murphy is starting to come into his own as a young and promising forward after having a career high in average (21 points), with 5.7 total rebounds and 3.8 assists per game.<\/p>\n

Murphy has been mentioned in other trade talk this summer; rumors have included him in a potential three-way trade between the Bucks and Celtics that is headlined by two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and former Finals MVP Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n

\"FourThe Warriors are showing interest in acquiring Kawhi Leonard.<\/p>\n

With the possibility of acquiring Murphy, Kevin O\u2019Connor of \u201cThe Kevin O\u2019Connor Show\u201d reported that Golden State is more interested in acquiring Leonard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do still think the Warriors still want Kawhi Leonard,\u201d O\u2019Connor said. \u201c\u2026 Trey Murphy, as Anthony Slater says, seems to be just the more obtainable guy, but I don\u2019t think this Warriors\u2019 love for Kawhi Leonard has declined at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 34 years old last season, Leonard showed he can still play at a high level, averaging 27.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NBA offseason ongoing, it appears the Warriors are committed to acquiring another star to play alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7000,1953,47,716,129,266,101,103,102,104,106,105,127,13340],"class_list":["post-368416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-northern-california","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\/368416","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=368416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}