Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on all things Warriors, part of the Lockdown

Podcast Network.

I'm your host, West Goldberg, Warriors writer for the Mercury News, and I'll be

joined today by Sam to C who covers the NBA draft for the athletic. Sam does a great work,

and does a ton of research and reporting. There's big boards and his mock drafts. There are

few people in any who I trust on the NBA draft. More, he joins the show to talk about who he

thinks are the top players in the draft,

what he thinks the Warriors should do with their pick and more. Hope you enjoy. First, how do you

think the Warriors trading for Andrew Wiggins changes their team needs in the draft, if

at all? I would significantly doubt that it affects the way that they will go about drafting.

I think that their organizational philosophy would likely be to take the guy that they think is best.

And while they do have guys like Eric Pas and Andrew Wiggins and you know

Tremont Green certainly can fit into like the combo forward mold even though you

likely want to play into the four or five I I don't think that this takes them out of

the mix or a you know combo forward forward, a three, a four.

I don't think that this takes them out of,

like I don't think that DeAngelo Russell's presence

would have taken them out of the mix

for taking a one or a two guard.

I don't think that, you know,

filling the small forward, power forward hole will make them more likely

to select the center. I think that they're just simply going to take the guy that they evaluate

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