{"id":74387,"date":"2025-06-29T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74387"},"modified":"2025-06-29T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:12:13","slug":"warriors-trade-pitch-swaps-moses-moody-for-60-million-defensive-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74387","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Trade Pitch Swaps Moses Moody for $60 Million Defensive Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2056485625-e1720702098933.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2056485625-e1720702098933.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2056485625-e1720702098933.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2056485625-e1720702098933.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Warriors Trade Pitch Swaps Moses Moody for $60 Million Defensive Center\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Moses Moody (right) of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors aren\u2019t missing defensive prowess or general toughness with Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler on the roster, but the center position could use a hit of both heading into next season \u2014 not to mention some extra rebounding and size.<\/p>\n<p>Finding that player will be among Golden State\u2019s top priorities this summer, as Bobby Marks of ESPN on Friday, June 28, identified the team\u2019s top two needs as rim protection and front-court depth.\u00a0Marks authored a trade proposal with the Eastern Conference finalist New York Knicks that meets both of those requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrade Moses Moody\u00a0to the Knicks for\u00a0Mitchell Robinson,\u201d Marks wrote.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Mitchell Robinson What Warriors Need on Defense, Creates Offensive Issues With Imperfect Fit<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5154077\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2151201796-e1727189238891.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Warriors Trade Pitch Swaps Moses Moody for $60 Million Defensive Center\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5154077\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5154077\">GettyNew York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Robinson has had injury issues over the last couple of seasons, but he\u2019s been the defensive anchor for the Knicks when healthy \u2014 including during a postseason run in 2025 that saw New York fall just two wins shy of an NBA Finals appearance.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, the 27-year-old center is averaging 7.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks across 24.1 minutes per game. Robinson\u2019s ability to protect the rim would be of paramount importance in Golden State, and his offensive rebounding would add possessions for a Warriors\u2019 offense that could use them.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Robinson is far from an ideal fit offensively. He has never attempted a 3-point shot in his 377 career regular-season appearances and would exacerbate spacing issues in lineups with Green, Butler or both.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson is also a liability at the free throw line, shooting just over 52% from the stripe for his career. The Indiana Pacers resorted to fouling Robinson intentionally during the Eastern Conference Finals, which mitigated his time on the court and overall impact on the series.<\/p>\n<p>But Robinson has just one season remaining on his four-year, $60 million contract, so the Warriors wouldn\u2019t be locked in beyond the 2025-26 campaign if his fit didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Moses Moody Among Warriors\u2019 Most Tradable Players<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5210738\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181846512-e1732826747862.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Warriors Trade Pitch Swaps Moses Moody for $60 Million Defensive Center\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5210738\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5210738\">Getty Moses Moody of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moody, who will play next season at 23 years old, has developed within head coach Steve Kerr\u2019s system, leading to a career year across the board in his fourth season since the Warriors selected Moody out of Arkansas with the No. 14 overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>His year included 9.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 0.8 steals in 22.3 minutes of playing time across 74 contests played (34 starts), per Basketball Reference. He also shot a career-best 37.4% from behind the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p>However, Moody\u2019s usage dipped in the playoffs to 20.9 minutes per game in Round 1 against the Houston Rockets and just 9.4 minutes per contest in the team\u2019s second-round defeat at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State signed the shooting guard to a three-year extension in October 2024 worth $37.5 million total that keeps him under contract through 2027-28. However, given Brandin Podziemski\u2019s place ahead of Moody on the depth chart and Buddy Hield\u2019s presence on the roster, Moody is a player the Warriors can afford to trade \u2014 particularly if that means securing a center like Robinson at the franchise\u2019s position of greatest need.<\/p>\n<p>Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group&#8217;s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State Warriors have been advised to offer the New York Knicks a trade flipping Moses Moody for Mitchell Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":74388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warriors Trade Pitch Swaps Moses Moody for $60 Million Defensive Center - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74387\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warriors Trade Pitch Swaps Moses Moody for $60 Million Defensive Center - 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