With the offseason having well and truly arrived, now is a good time to dissect the roster maneuvers of the Golden State Warriors’ closest rivals in their division. Given all five teams made the 2023 postseason and will undoubtedly lay claims to such a place again, the pacific is set to be the most hotly-contested division in the NBA next season.
In the Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Phoenix Suns, you have four experienced teams each holding championship aspirations. Yet the quartet were shockingly usurped by the Sacramento Kings last regular season, with Mike Brown’s men topping the division before going down to Golden State in a hard-fought seven-game first-round series.