Post-lottery mock draft: Karim Lopez to the Warriors
Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor mocks the NBA Draft publish lottery the place he has the Golden State Warriors drafting New Zealand ahead Karim Lopez. Check out the full dialog on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you pay attention.
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Video Transcript
Kareem Lopez.
I bought Lopez going to the Warriors.
This is, that is, to me, a very good match for the Kerr system.
Lopez is a hard-nosed, powerful participant, a flexible participant.
I believe the Aaron Gordon comp, that is a lane for him to strive to aspire to turn out to be over the course of time, ‘trigger at 6’8″, with strength and size and beef to him, he can handle the ball a bit, he can pass a bit.
He’s just a do-it-all guy.
He reminds me of Gordon when Gordon was coming out of college at Arizona.
Gordon was just, like, a significantly better athlete.
He was an all-world athlete, as you know, with the dunk contest stuff that Gordon does.
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But that player type is the vision for him.
And so for Golden State, Steve Kerr signed a two-year contract extension with the Warriors, and I’m sure he’s disappointed that the Warriors didn’t get lottery luck.
but, you know, with the 11th pick here, it’s an opportunity for the Warriors to add another good young guy or maybe trade that pick