Report: Warriors Eye Trades for LeBron, Durant, Giannis, Paul George, Every All-Star

As if the past few days in the NBA wasn’t wild enough already, the Golden State Warriors are also open for business ahead of the Feb. 6 trade deadline and are looking to make a major splash.

“The Warriors are legitimately calling about every All-Star player,” ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Monday during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. “You just name the All-Star player, the Warriors have probably called on them. Paul George, they probably call, they have called. They made calls on every star. And that, of course, includes players like LeBron James, players like Kevin Durant, players like Jimmy Butler. They are making calls. They are dead set on trying to find another star player, superstar player, with Stephen Curry. That is another subplot to this trade deadline as well.”

The Warriors are also poking around another superstar:

For the Warriors, the league-wide inquiry makes sense. Stephen Curry is 36 years old and his window won’t stay open forever. The Dubs don’t have a true star to pair with him, and the result has been a mediocre 24-24 record, which currently has the team just outside of a Play-In Tournament berth.

And with the San Antonio Spurs obtaining De’Aaron Fox, the race for the final postseason and Play-In Tournament seeds just got all the more congested. The Spurs are currently just 21-25, 12th in the West, but Fox should make them instantly better.

Now, whether the Warriors will succeed in landing another star is another matter entirely.

Last week, it would have been easy to write that there is absolutely zero chance that the Milwaukee Bucks would even consider trading Giannis Antetokounmpo. That is probably still true, but the Dallas Mavericks trading a franchise cornerstone like Luka Dončić—seemingly without him requesting such a move, or even being aware it was a possibility—has forever altered the boundaries of what feels like a feasible potential trade.

Still, the Greek Freak likely isn’t going anywhere.

The Los Angeles Lakers, fresh off the shocking acquisition of Dončić, aren’t going to trade James. And they couldn’t even do so if they wanted unless he signaled a desire to play for the Warriors, given his no-trade clause.

It also seems unlikely that the Philadelphia 76ers will part ways with George after less than a season together. The Sixers have been saddled with significant injuries throughout the 2024-25 season and haven’t really seen how the trio of George, Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey will fare when healthy. Philly has been bad this season, but the Sixers still have their own championship window with Embiid to consider going forward.

Durant is a fascinating name to consider for two main reasons. One, his reunion with Curry in Golden State would send the NBA world into a tailspin. Just imagine the memes.

But two, if the Phoenix Suns can’t find a pathway to improving the team around Durant and Devin Booker because of Bradley Beal’s no-trade clause, moving on from Durant and embracing a soft reset might be their best path forward. The Suns are just 25-23 and the West is loaded—is maintaining the status quo really that beneficial?

Still, it feels more likely the team will look to reinforce around Booker and Durant.

Finally, adding a player like Butler probably would have been the most realistic outcome of the names mentioned above if Butler was willing to sign an extension with the team.

That may be a blessing in disguise for the Warriors, however.

Given his questionable fit in Golden State—he and Green are both secondary facilitators who present some floor-spacing concerns on the offensive end—and a history of forcing his way out of franchises in non-amicable manners, he wouldn’t have been the best option for the Dubs in their All-Star shopping spree.

If he changes his stance on signing an extension with the team, however, he will be the most realistic option.