As teams across the NBA try to rebuild exclusively through the draft, free agency or blockbuster trades, all of them should keep something in mind: It's easy to copy the Golden State Warriors' blueprint for success through roster moves.
Just make all the right ones.
Figuring out what those moves are and knowing when to make them (and especially when not to make them) is harder.
The Warriors' stratospheric rise this season has been five years in the making, built gradually through a mixture of trades, signings and draft picks. They employed patience and bold opportunism. They absorbed criticism.
They were brave, shrewd and lucky.
Here's how.
The Draft
The 2009 draft pick that brought Stephen Curry to Golden State can rightly be viewed as the genesis of the modern Warriors era, and it almost didn't happen.
The Minnesota Timberwolves infamously tabbed Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn ahead of Curry, allowing him to slip to Golden State at No. 7. Curry, notably, didn't even want to play for the Warriors—a laughingstock marked by t ...
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