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Welcome Nicolas!

Hello Warriors Fans! It´s summer break but there are still some topics to talk about.
First we want to take the chance and welcome the newest members of the Warriors in the next articles.

The first one we want to welcome here at the Bay Area is Nicolas Batum.
He was part of the deal that sent Luol Deng and the Warriors 1st round pick of this year away.





He looks like the missing piece of this team. A real shooting guard.
After Stuckey is gone and he wasn´t for the team very well at the end of last season, that´s what the team needs.

The initial plan was to trade a shooting guard, what didn´t looked that easy at the position we was in. The pick ended to be a shooting guard, but the advantage of having Batum instead of Donovan Mitchell is the experience. And you know what you get from him, instead of waiting the next years to see what you got.
We talked to GM Mailo after the draft and we learned that Luke Kennard would have been the pick if the pick would have been still in Warriors hands. So we have Batum instead of Luke Kennard at the end (not instead of Donovan Mitchell who was picked for the Detroit Pistons).

So Batum has a lot of experience as a NLL player and as a member of the French national team, but he is still only 28 years so he is right in his prime as a basketball player at the moment.
So his actual contract should be his prime years from now on till he is 32 years. 
Batum was drafted 2003 with the 23th pick of the first round by the Toronto Raptors.
He played for 8 NLL teams so far, the Warriors will be his 9th team.

We expect him to start at the shooting guard position for the most parts of the season.
So we got a shooter, a solid defender, an experienced leader for this young team.
With him on board the team is one step further from last year´s version of the Warriors.

Stay tuned Warriors fans for the next welcome article!

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