“When they leave this thing, they got to leave it with somebody,” Brandin Podziemski said this pre-season, clearly putting his name out there as a future leader for the Warriors after Curry, Green, or even Butler. But for that dream to become reality, he can’t just flash brilliance in spurts; he needs consistency across all 82 games. So far, that hasn’t clicked. The Warriors sit at 10-9, and veterans and Coach Steve Kerr keep circling the same concern: the team is missing that spark, that “fire,” that “fight” that once defined their championship runs.

On the Zach Lowe podcast, Howard Beck weighed in on the Warriors’ ongoing search for a consistent young star. “ The uh one kind of like fundamental truth I think over the last couple of years before the Jimmy Butler trade and still

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