[Source](https://theathletic.com/5152499/2023/12/22/tyrese-haliburton-warriors-2020-nba-draft/?source=user_shared_article Kawakami: Tyrese Haliburton, the Warriors and the 2020 draft — a story of what could’ve been)
> Yes, three and a half years later, Tyrese Haliburton remembers every detail and swish of his pre-draft workout in Las Vegas in front of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, coach Steve Kerr and then-general manager Bob Myers.
> Haliburton told me in a phone interview this week: “I was disappointed that they (had) the No. 2 pick because I felt like if they were anywhere out of the top three, I felt like I was going to be the pick.”
> “That workout was like the best workout probably of my life,” Haliburton said. “Felt like I shot the cover off the ball. But I understood at the time there was no way they were going to take me at 2.”
> Myers said on the broadcast: “Myself, Steve Kerr, Joe Lacob and he did what he does. He made a ton of shots and we looked at each other and said, ‘He might be pretty good.’ Different kind of shot, kind of a set shot, but he made them all.”
>Steve Kerr: “The most impressive thing was the interview after. It wasn’t the workout itself. It’s hard to gauge much of anything in a 1-on-0 workout. But the interview after, he just … he was a pro. You could just tell.”
by lopea182
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this implies that the Warriors front office wouldn’t ever trade down in the draft (idk if that’s backed up historically)
also why do teams only stage 1-on-0 workouts? where does someone like Tyrese get the chance to show off his passing/vision in person otherwise?
Warriors in the draft are PG phobic since they have Curry. Understandably but could you imagine if they went BPA?
He would’ve been better than Curry. Could’ve traded Curry for like 6 FRP then you are making another dynasty.
I’m so pissed that they won in 2022. Still don’t believe that shit. Good for curry tho
The Wiseman pick never made sense. Up there with the Bagley pick as one of the most inexplicable draft choices of the modern era
Remember the fake trade with bulls for 4th pick and WCJ? Yea..
Thought they should have drafted Lamelo
Tyrese dodged a bullet here. They would have made no effort to develop him and probably would have let Draymond punch him in the face leading to him being ostracized from the team
This is all 20/20. No one knew that Wiseman would be one of the hugest draft busts in the modern era.
I’ll always remember going into the lottery hoping the team would slip to 4 or 5 because I really liked a lot of the guys outside of the top 3 (and specifically didn’t really love any of the guys in the top 3), but I knew that they wouldn’t give up the shot to get a perceived “high ceiling” because of what it would do to the contending window.
I liked Haliburton a ton (also really like Okongwu) and was hoping for some kind of trade down, but I still understand why they did what they did
Warriors are headed to the bottom bro. It’s over. Count yourself lucky
There was a trade there that netted the sixers Halliburton instead of harden, said it was dumb before we got harden, and god damn it, I was right about a basketball take for once.
Cyclone homer, but hard not to feel vindicated. I said from the opening tip through that entire college season Hali should go 1OA. We saw all the vision, flair, defensive instincts, 3 point shooting, innate leadership. No disrespect to Melo, but it was preposterous then now and always that he’d be the better player.
For the 12th overall pick, he sure gets linked to 2nd pick a lot. Do the other 10 teams (excluding the TWolves as I’m sure they’re happy) have to relive this as much as the warriors do?
It was seen as a weak draft at the time, they would’ve found it tough trading back into Hali’s range. No one would’ve been willing to give up much to move into the top 3.
Every new nugget of Haliburton draft stuff digs the
knife in my gut deeper and deeper.
It was not wise to draft that man.
I remember hearing how much the warriors wanted to haliburton going in. They were trying to trade down (maybe it was pre lottery as well and they were expecting around the 4th pick) and I really didn’t want them to get haliburton. I didn’t see. It’s why my dumb ass isn’t an NBA scout lol
Just kiss already