{"id":787266,"date":"2026-07-27T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787266\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:16:10","slug":"warriors-star-trade-idea-after-missing-out-on-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787266\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Star Trade Idea After Missing Out On LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Utah Jazz Receive:\u00a0Jimmy Butler, Yaxel Lendeborg and first-round picks in 2028, 2030 and 2032<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Again, Utah could take some convincing to pull the trigger on this move, but Walker Kessler would&#8217;ve fit the directional shift toward winning, and the Jazz just traded him because the Los Angeles Lakers overpaid for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">You could argue that the Warriors have more reason to overpay than L.A., and that&#8217;s what this deal represents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Markkanen is good and a particularly interesting fit in Golden State, but there aren&#8217;t a lot of other teams that would give up an expiring contract, an interesting rookie forward (who&#8217;s younger than Markkanen) and three first-round picks for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And while this move would obviously delay Utah&#8217;s turn toward competitiveness, Yaxel Lendeborg is a little closer to the developmental timeline of Darryn Peterson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The mountain of assets from this deal and the Kessler trade would also give the Jazz the ammo they might need to go after the next superstar who becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz Receive:\u00a0Jimmy Butler, Yaxel Lendeborg and first-round picks in 2028, 2030 and 2032 Again, Utah could take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-787266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}