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The original was posted on /r/nba by /u/CazOnReddit on 2025-07-23 20:06:07+00:00.

Original Title: To put the Warriors delusion about getting a 1st rounder back for Johnathan Kuminga into perspective: The last time a restricted free agent got a 1st round pick was back in 2019 - and it involved them receiving an offer sheet to trigger a sign & trade.

That occasion involved recent Rookie of the Year recipient Malcolm Brogdon of the Milwaukee Bucks. Though they intended to keep him, the Bucks were forced into negotiating a sign and trade when the Indiana Pacers gave him an 85M/4y offer sheet that they refused to match. This netted the Bucks a 1st round pick and 2 2nd round picks.

The trade was seen as a loss at the time it went down given Malcolm was putting up good stats when healthy but it ultimately ended up working out as one of the picks in the deal was used in the Jrue Holiday deal (TL;DR the Jrue deal was a 4-teamer, said pick became R.J. Hampton for the Nuggets so it’s yet another example of acquiring known talent being preferable to the hypothetical of a draft pick 9 times out of 10).

Funnily enough, the Pacers almost wound up in a similar situation when they were the team to make an offer sheet to Deandre Ayton back in 2022 but reports at the time suggested the Suns weren’t keen on acquiring Myles Turner in a sign and trade, and they were quick to match the offer sheet.

While there have been a few examples of recent sign and trades which have yielded 1st round draft capital, most of them were for proven star-level talent like Jimmy Butler and DeMar DeRozan - and neither pick came with a good young player that Golden State is also (allegedly) seeking at the moment.

All this goes to show…the Warriors aren’t getting that “first rounder and a good young player” offer for an RFA that they demonstrably don’t want and who isn’t getting paid what they’re asking for from the team that doesn’t want him.