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

Podcast Network.

I'm West Goldberg, Warriors Writers for the Mercury News.

Today's episode is brought to you by Rock Auto.

We have a really good episode, a ton of great questions, and this could even become a two-part show,

depending on how long I go on all this stuff.

Some new ideas about the traded player exception and the draft.

Let's just get right into it with this question from Bobby, who writes in,

How do you get Kelly Ubre or Robert Covington with the TPE without giving up the first round pick?

I think you're going to have to give up a pick to get Ube or Covington.

The Rockets love Robert Covington, everything he brings to them.

The Suns are really high on Kelly Ubre, and I'm a little confused as to why his name

keeps popping up as far as a traded player exception candidate.

The Suns are really high on him.

He makes sense for what the Warriors want, but the Warriors just can't have everything

that they want.

And I think the Suns, look, they're going to be picking in the lottery, too.

They know just as well as the Warriors how bad this draft is.

Why would they want two picks in the lottery of this draft if they already have a good

young player in Kelly Ubrey, who by the way they traded for and has worked out front of

that?

He's a success story for them.

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