2016 NBA Draft

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New Warriors guard Patrick McCaw joined Warriors Sound to talk about his hometown of St. Louis and what's ahead at NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.

McCaw played two seasons at guard for UNLV and was the 38th overall selection in the 2016 NBA Draft. He returns to Las Vegas for Summer League with the Warriors.

The team's first game is Saturday, July 9th against the Spurs at the Thomas and Mack Center.

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Warriors Sound: Nine Minutes with Patrick McCaw

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Warriors Introduce Jones and McCaw

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Laurence Scott covers the introductory press conference of the Warriors' 2016 draft picks.

The Warriors introduced Damian Jones and Patrick McCaw, the team’s two 2016 NBA draft picks, during an event at team headquarters on Friday.

A center out of Vanderbilt, Jones was selected in the first round with the 30th overall pick. McCaw, a St. Louis native, played two seasons at guard for UNLV and was the 38th overall selection in the draft.

Warriors general manager Bob Myers and broadcaster Jim Barnett took part in the festivities.

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Warriors Sound: Jones and McCaw Introduced

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2016 NBA Draft: Damian Jones & Patrick McCaw

Warriors Select Jones and McCaw in 2016 NBA Draft

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The Golden State Warriors selected Vanderbilt University center Damian Jones with the 30th overall pick in the first round of the 2016 NBA Draft and acquired the draft rights to University of Nevada, Las Vegas guard Patrick McCaw (38th overall pick in the second round) from the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for cash considerations, the team announced.

Jones, 20, posted career averages of 13.3 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.69 blocks and 27.2 minutes in 99 games over three seasons at Vanderbilt, garnering First Team All-SEC honors as both a sophomore and junior. In his junior season in 2015-16, Jones (7’0”, 245) averaged 13.9 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 1.64 blocks and 26.2 minutes in 33 games, helping the Commodores to their first NCAA Tournament berth since 2011-12. Jones hit 56.6 percent from the field during his three-year career at Vanderbilt, the third-best mark in school history, while finishing second on the Commodore’s all-time blocks list (167) behind only Festus Ezeli—who was selected by the Warriors with the 30th overall pick in 2012.

A native of Baton Rouge, La., Jones won back-to-back state titles in his junior and senior seasons at Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge, earning Louisiana’s 5A Player of the Year honors as a senior. Jones will wear No. 15 for the Warriors.

McCaw, 20, averaged 12.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.98 steals and 31.7 minutes in 65 games over two seasons at UNLV, garnering Second Team All-Mountain West Conference honors as a sophomore. McCaw (6’7”, 185) was also named to the Mountain West All-Defensive Team in his sophomore season in 2015-16, averaging 14.7 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 2.45 steals (second in the nation) and 33.7 minutes in 33 games.

A native of St. Louis, Mo., McCaw attended Montrose Christian High School in Rockville, Md., and helped lead them to a National Christian School Athletic Association Division I title. McCaw will wear No. 0 for the Warriors.

The league’s annual selection process took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the Warriors’ basketball operations staff working from the team’s draft headquarters in downtown Oakland.

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Warriors Select Vanderbilt Center Damian Jones With 30th Overall Pick in 2016 NBA Draft

Laurence Scott covers the Warriors throughout the day of the 2016 NBA Draft.

For the second consecutive year, the Warriors selected 30th in the NBA Draft and this year 7-foot center Damian Jones out of Vanderbilt is the team's first round selection.

In three seasons at Vanderbilt, Jones averaged over 13 points and nearly two blocks per game as a two-time First Team All-SEC standout.

The Warriors also used the 38th overall pick - acquired from Milwaukee - to select guard Patrick McCaw out of UNLV.

The first round of the 2016 NBA Draft is winding toward the 30th pick where the Warriors are set to select. Marcus Thompson of the Bay Area News Group joins us to talk about a Bay Area tie to the early part of the draft where Cal's Jaylen Brown was selected third.

He also talks about how the Warriors pick will inform perhaps some of what is on the horizon for the team in the weeks ahead.

As we hit the double digit plateau at the 2016 NBA Draft, it has been an intriguing evening at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

CSN Bay Area's Monte Poole updates some of the storylines behind the picks in the top 10 and talks about the summer ahead for the Warriors.

The first few picks have been made at the 2016 NBA Draft with the 76ers taking Ben Simmons first and the Lakers selecting Brandon Ingram second.

We talk with Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle about the new look the Lakers are getting with former Warriors assistant coach Luke Walton now taking over the reigns as head coach in L.A., plus what lies ahead for the Warriors in this draft and during the offseason.

With the 2016 NBA Draft taking place tonight at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, we will have updates throughout the evening from Warriors headquarters as events unfold.

The Warriors currently hold the 30th overall pick. This is the same draft spot the team had last year when Kevon Looney was selected out of UCLA.

Warriors general manager Bob Myers spoke on Tuesday about the end of the 2015-16 season and this evening's draft.

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Warriors Sound: 2016 NBA Draft

Although the Warriors are surely still digesting their defeat in Game 7 of the NBA Finals just a few days ago, there isn’t any time to wallow in despair. The 2016 NBA Draft will be held tomorrow night, and that means Golden State must return to the table, prepared to make the first of an unknown number of offseason decisions that they hope will result in an improved roster moving into next season. That first decision is the 30th overall pick – the last pick of the first round – in Thursday’s draft, and due to the lengthy season that the Warriors just completed, there’s a lot of preparation to fit into a short amount of time.

“That’s the one disadvantage, if there’s any, of playing that deep. Obviously, there’s not a lot of prep time. In our sport, I don’t think like any other, you play that far – which is what you want to do – but if you’re not successful, it does hamper your ability to prepare,” said Bob Myers at his pre-Draft availability on Tuesday.

While the playoff run was certainly the primary focus of the organization’s attention, it’s not as if the Warriors are starting from scratch, and there’s no reason to believe the lengthy season and quick turnaround should prove to be too much of a detriment to overcome. Golden State has done quite well in the Draft under Myers’ tenure, and after all, this isn’t the first occasion they’re dealing with a time crunch. Almost exactly one year ago, the Warriors were coming off the high of their first championship in four decades, and although they didn’t have a whole heck of a lot of time to prepare, they still found a way to improve the team via the Draft.

On Thursday, the Warriors will have the 30th overall selection for the third time in the last five NBA Drafts. Just last June, the Dubs managed to snag Kevon Looney with the 30th pick after being surprised the talented big man out of UCLA was still on the board. And, back in 2012, the Warriors picked Festus Ezeli out of Vanderbilt with the 30th overall pick. Historically, the odds are against finding a contributing rotational player – much less a bona fide starter – that late in the Draft, but between Ezeli and Looney, the Warriors believe they’ve developed a track record of finding hidden gems late in the first round.

Much of the success behind that track record could be attributed to the mentality of selecting the best player available, rather than one for a specific need. Myers intimated that was the thinking behind the Looney selection last year, and on Tuesday, he insisted that the Warriors are likely to operate under the same mandate when it’s their turn to pick tomorrow.

“If you can get a player at #30 that can be a rotational player, I think you’ve done well,” said Myers. “A guy that can step in and at least give us something next year - not start, but play some minutes.”

That would seem to be a smart strategy given the current state of the Warriors’ roster. After all, this is the same team that won more regular season games than any other in NBA history, and the majority of its’ starting core will likely remain intact. Thus, there’s unlikely to be a ton of minutes available for whomever the Warriors select in Thursday’s Draft, and by opting to take the best player available at the very end of the first round, you give yourself the best chance of finding a diamond in the rough.

Of course, it’s always possible that the Warriors could make any number of Draft-day trades that could change both the number of selections they have, as well as the relative position of those selections within the overall Draft order. Due to the trade that resulted in Golden State acquiring Andre Iguodala back in the summer of 2013, the Warriors are currently without a second round selection in this year’s Draft, as well as a few additional picks in the next few years. In fact, the Warriors’ first round selection tomorrow is the last pick the team currently owns until its first round selection in 2018.

It wasn’t the ending to the season that the Warriors had hoped for, and as much as it may still pain them, it’s in the past now. As Myers said, “One marathon ended, and the other – got a drink of water – and now we’re moving on.”

Thursday offers the Warriors the first opportunity to improve upon their current foundation, and if the past is any indication, they’ll make sure to seize it.