Reject Green s invitation to play, Curry has surrendered in advance, and the Warriors are time to consider the future

It was obviously his little brother's invitation to play, but Curry still chose to refuse. The risk of being injured again is 1-3 behind in the big score and forced comeback is as high as 87%. These are the keys that ultimately prompted Curry to give up his comeback idea. Curry's high-risk battle card was a kind of surrender to some extent. As the Warriors' main player, his refusal to come back also put an end to the Warriors' 2024-25 season.

It is never embarrassing to retreat from the play-offs to the Western Conference semi-finals. The Warriors' lineup configuration is now a great success, even though Curry Butler's career has entered the countdown. The Warriors also play steadily and cannot be rushed to achieve success. Where is the future of the Warriors? The answer to this question is probably no. Let's take a look at the situation of the Warriors' opponents. After the Lakers James, Doncic, the Timberwolves, Edwards, and Jokic Nuggets can still reach their peak for at least five years. Even the most awkward Suns, after they sent away the Big Three, the draft picks they gained were enough to start a reconstruction.

And what about the Warriors? Curry, the indigenous leader, has gone downhill, and Butler, who was introduced, is also an old star. There are no top young people behind Kuba. The 2025 draft picks were given to the Grizzlies and the 2026 Heat. The road to introducing super giants through draft picks will be blocked in the future. The Warriors' road ahead is full of fog. Although they can still make it to the playoffs with the remnant of the Kuba combination, the team is destined to decline in the next few years.

Of course, this is not the whole of the bad status quo of the Warriors, and the Warriors lack sufficient bargaining chips compared to the core aging Warriors. In the NBA, if you have enough chips and don’t have enough money, you can take other people’s super giants and use them yourself. For example, the Lakers do things like this.

But the Warriors do not have the courage of the Lakers. The Warriors can become a new giant team because they choose a group of young talents in the second decade of the 21st century. But at the peak, the Warriors did not think about trading a few talents to exchange for some young players for self-updation, which led to the decline in the value of young talents' trading when they grow old, and the Warriors also missed the best opportunity for trading updates.

There is only one way before the Warriors, that is, continue to explore Curry's surplus value, and then quickly fall after Curry retires and starts reconstruction after he becomes bad for a few years. But the problem with the Warriors is that the overall structure is seriously aging and the serious lack of character players. So this summer, the Warriors are destined to be able to do some tinkering.

For example, add some scrap players in the second round in your hand to exchange Vucevic for the Bulls. Although Vucevic has limited ability and poor defense, he can provide the Warriors with stable inside scores. Vucevic has a lot of room to play around Kuba, and the Warriors have no shortage of inside defense gates because of Green.

The Warriors will be destined to lose Kumingga this summer. Kumingga wants to be the leader of his own contract, so he will definitely leave the Warriors. The Warriors can sign first and then switch to Kumingga and then exchange for several useful role players, such as finding a suitable substitute for Curry, looking for a wing gate for the team. You can also exchange Kumingga for some draft picks to add some hope to the team in the future.

But no matter those moves, the Warriors' basic framework cannot be changed. They could only continue to team up around Curry Butler and pray that they were both healthy. The Warriors' decline has begun. If any trading is not enough, it will only be a life-suffering, and Warriors fans need to understand this.