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BOSTON – The Bay Area has every reason to be giddy with Stephen Curry being named this year’s league MVP.
For a fan base that has been among the best in the NBA even when the Golden State Warriors were horrible, their patience has been rewarded.
But as much as the Warriors brass should be praised for the job they have done cultivating their own lottery picks, a big part of the Warriors’ success has been what they’ve been to do via trades and free agency.
Andrew Bogut is a former No. 1 overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks (2005) and was a good but not great player for them.
He gets traded to Golden State in the middle of the 2012 season and year and a half later, he establishes himself as the best defensive center in the NBA.
When you look closer to home at the Boston Celtics, they too seem to be operating from a similar playbook.
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