Managing the final stages of Stephen Curry’s prime and the next steps for Draymond, Klay Thompson and the rest won’t be easy. But, New Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy got off to a nice start, making a confident and relaxed introduction.
“As far as individual skill sets, place a premium on being able to play both ways, defend your position, and on the offensive end to be able to bring something to the table,” Dunleavy said. “High premium on shooting in this day and age with the way the league is going. Shooting is important. Those are kind of the main things, and you work your way down with other skill sets.”
But Dunleavy isn’t the GM today just because of that. He’s the GM because he fit in so well and so quickly on Myers’ staff and, even though his and Myers’ backgrounds are very different, because they’re so similar. Dunleavy was the Duke superstar, the No. 3 pick by the Warriors who went through some rough years here but had a valuable 15-year NBA career. Myers was the UCLA walk-on who got his law degree while interning as an agent. Yes, very different guys.
“We love having those guys here,” Dunleavy said. “Jordan, especially with his contract extension, we plan on having him four more years at least. Jonathan has shown progression and growth in his first four years. Unfortunately for him, the playing time hasn’t been there. That’s on all of our shoulders to figure out how do we get him in the game more.
So now Dunleavy jumps into this immense job, replacing a GM legend and working for Joe Lacob. I can tell you that Lacob was very impressed with one thing already on Monday: “Actually he calledthis morning,” Lacob said of Dunleavy. “Woke me up. Actually, I was up but I was watching a show on TV, ‘First Take.'”
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