With Klay Thompson departing in free agency, the Golden State Warriors find themselves in an unfamiliar position: unclear of who their secondary scorer is.
Thompson is gone, Jordan Poole is gone, and Kevin Durant is long gone. And Andrew Wiggins looks nothing like the player who picked up the scoring slack with Thompson missing much of the 2021-22 season. That leaves no clear candidate to fill up the “points” column next to Steph Curry.
It’s an era of NBA basketball where high-volume scorers come in bunches. Last year, a whopping 50 players averaged at least 20 points per game; by contrast, in Curry’s rookie season, only 19 players hit the 20-point mark (and hey, guess who was sixth in the league in scoring?