But while we heard lots about the people the Warriors didn’t trade away, we hadn’t heard as many rumors about players they were targeting. But Tuesday brought a little nugget on that front. Speaking on his The Lowe Post podcast, ESPN’s Zach Lowe revealed that the Warriors made a run at two solid veterans: big man Kelly Olynyk and guard Alex Caruso. “They were pretty active at the trade deadline, from what I heard, in terms of buying,” Lowe said in a conversation with Steve Jones Jr. of The Dunker Spot. “They are operating like a team who’s like, ‘If we have Steph, we’re trying to win.’ They looked hard at Olynyk, I’m not quite sure what was going out in that deal. I actually heard it wasn’t Moses Moody. You’d think it was — I’m not sure that it was. Obviously it wasn’t Kuminga or Podziemski. Kuminga was a hard no from the start. Caruso — they would have loved to get Caruso from the Bulls, I just don’t think there was any common ground there. Those were the two names that I heard a lot of.” -via SB Nation / February 14, 2024
