Everyone one the Warriors is expendable except for Anthony Randolph and Stephen Curry.

to me, KAZ >> Maggz. I think he has tons of value and has a really reasonable contract. An underrated good move by the warriors FO by having such a versatile player for 3yr 9 million contract.

Buike is expendable in the fact that he’s not a star player, and we can fairly easily replace the majority of his production. Belinelli, Morrow, Maggette, Jack, Curry, Monta…we have enough guys to play all the minutes on the wing at a similar level of productivity, so there’s no reason to hesitate to move Buike in the right deal.

Expendable? No. Replaceable? Yeah. Infinitely. He’s not the rare talent that you preserve at all costs. There is a difference between expendable and replaceable and a difference between “giving up on” and “using his value to get parts that may help the team more”.

his stats will be somewhere along the lines of 18ppg, 5-6rpg, 2.5apg, 1.5bpg

Once again, this sort of stat line is meaningless without some notion of how many minutes it takes to get those rebounds and how many shots it takes to get those points. I suspect that he’s very, very close to his peak because most guards (most players actually) are very close to their peak at age 25. They may put up higher totals, but it’s generally because they get more minutes. Azubuike’s shooting overall got better last year. His 3pt % was better than the previous year, but only a little better than the year before, well within a standard error. Most of his stats were. His improvement was there, but it was modest, which is generally what you see for guys his age.

1.5bpg? Doubtful, unless we start playing an exceptional number of overtime games and he never, ever, ever goes to the bench. A 2/3 who averages 1.5 bpg? I’d bet my house that he doesn’t do it. Drexler never did. Pippen never did. Magic Johnson, despite towering over other guards never averaged anything close to that. Jordan haveraged that many blocks twice in his career, both in seasons where he averaged more than 40mpg. For his career, he was not close to that. Really think Azubuike is a more talented shot blocker than these guys?

makes him one of our best players, in my opinion. Also one of our best trading pieces.

Considering how many shooters and scorers we have on this team, I HIGHLY doubt he’ll ever average 18ppg for us. I would think best case scenario, he would average around 12-15ppg. Those rebounding and assist averages seem about right, but those blocks per game are ridiculously high. He doesn’t have the wingspan and isn’t that great of a defender to be able to block more than 1 shot a game. If anything, he would average around 0.6-0.8 blocks per game. And he would average about 15-25 mpg at the 2/3

I think azubuike has reached about his potential. He may get a bit better at defense and may be more efficient, but I think we’ve seen just about everything he brings to the table for us as a basketball team. He’s a very solid 4th or 5th starter or a very good 6th man off the bench. Even though Maggette gets better numbers, he stagnates our offense and I’d rather see Azubuike out there contributing more as a team player than Maggette does. I guess he would be expendable in the right trade if we were able to get a good starter in return, depending on the trade. I love his game and I would love for him to be a Warrior for a long time, but if the right trade came up, I wouldn’t deem him untouchable or anything. At this point, nobody on a 30 win team should be considered untouchable except Anthony Randolph.

I don’t know how old he is right now, but he’ll probably reach his peak in his late twenties,.

Only way id trade him is with a combination of players thats brings the warriors the best player in the trade ala Carter trade. If its a simple role player for role player forget it.