The battle for minutes in the Golden State Warriors’ rotation this season will focus primarily on two players drafted in the same year, who play roughly the same position and who have rewritten the expectations from when they were drafted.
Harrison Barnes, since the moment he was winning high school titles at Ames High School in Iowa with Doug McDermott, has been groomed for greatness. He was named the No. 1 prospect in the country by 247Sports, a preseason All-American at North Carolina and was ultimately taken with the seventh overall pick by the Warriors in the 2012 draft.
Draymond Green was the little engine that could. Like Barnes, he led his high school to two championships and was heavily recruited by prestigious college programs, choosing Michigan State over Kentucky. From there, the accolades rolled in.
He won the Big Ten Conference Sixth Man of the Year award in his sophomore season and took home All-American honors from the AP and was voted the National Player of the Year by the coaches his senior year (not to be confused with the Naismith Award, which was won by Anthony Davis).
Despite all of ...
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Who Is More Vital to the Warriors’ Plans, Harrison Barnes or Draymond Green?
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