They’ve signed Juan Toscano Anderson, Lonnie Walker IV, Troy Brown Jr, and Damian Jones and have Stanley Johnson, Kendrick Nunn, Wenyen Gabriel, and Taken Horton Tucker under contract.
From what I’ve read he signed an insanely massive endorsement deal coming into the league. 9 figures. So dude has had generational wealth since day 1 as a rookie.
I love how everyone loves to talk about all the other NBA draft picks and teams as if anything is really relevant as long as Steph Klay Draymond and Steve Kerr are alive and well and in there prime.
Oh yea, and Wiseman Kuminga Poole and Moody are all beasts in the making.
This Dubs team is not only a dynasty, but may do things the likes of which no professional sports franchise has ever done.
That’s true. He always played with Derek Fisher and otherwise it was Smush Parker. (Chucky Atkins and Gary Payton were the other guys to play and start at pg for a whole season in his prime.)
He was still more of the actual point man tho, in the same way Jordan was. They just didn’t guard point guards and there was a nominal shooter at the position. It’s been the same with LeBron and is with Luka now.
Basketball Reference has some stats on positions played. They call it “estimated” so I don’t know how they come up with it. But they show Kobe playing point guard sporadically across 2003 to 2010.