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Warriors preparing for draft as if team has picks
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OAKLAND (AP) — Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers has been busy taking flights across the country and overseas, meeting with players and agents and talking to other NBA executives ahead of next week’s draft.While that’s not out of the ordinary for most teams, the Warriors are operating under a different set of circumstances. They have no picks because of prior trades and are already squeezed for salary cap space.Of course, that could all change with one move by Myers.“We treated the scouting season as if we did have a pick because you never know what’s going to happen the night of the draft,” Myers said Wednesday, speaking to a small group of reporters at the team’s downtown Oakland headquarters.Myers and members of his staff attended draft camps in New York and Minnesota along with workouts organized by players’ agents in Los Angeles. He even took a two-day trip to Italy.Time with players has been more difficult for the Warriors this year because agents are typically less willing to allow clients to visit teams that don’t have a pick — something Myers knows and understands as a former agent.