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There’s a popular saying dating back to the 1940s: “You can’t go home again.” On Saturday night, former Knicks RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley learned that axiom’s meaning all too well.

In their first game at Madison Square Garden as members of the Toronto Raptors, Barrett and Quickley suffered through a 126-100 loss at the hands of the New York Knicks. The lopsided matchup came just three weeks after Barrett and Quickley were traded along with a second-round pick for OG Anunoby, Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn.

Barrett and Quickley were met with an ovation from the MSG crowd during pregame introductions, and the Knicks displayed a tribute video of their young former players during an early timeout.

Appreciate all the moments RJ and Quick made at @TheGarden 🤝 pic.twitter.com/WNPaWaqZPn

— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) January 21, 2024
“New York should be extremely proud of [Quickley and Barrett]; they raised them,” Knicks forward Julius Randle said after the game. “They were brought up here and now they’re going to take off and they’re going to flourish for many more years.”

That’s about where the fun ended for Barrett, Quickley and the Raptors, however, as the Knicks went on a dominant second-half run to turn the game into a laugher.

For what it’s worth, both of the Knicks’ former players had solid games. Quickley finished with 12 points and 11 assists on 4-for-8 shooting. Barrett put up 20 points and eight rebounds in 28 minutes, going 8-for-15 from the field — though the 80% free throw shooter curiously went 3-for-9 from the stripe, prompting former teammate Julius Randle to appear to shout “I’m in his head!” as Barrett missed yet another freebie.

“I’m in his head!“

— Julius Randle to RJ Barrett pic.twitter.com/f26DsTdEco

— New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) January 21, 2024
Randle had every right to talk, since he absolutely dominated Toronto with 18 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists, logging the 14th triple-double of his career and eighth as a member of the Knicks — the fourth-most in franchise history. Not to be outdone, Jalen Brunson delivered another masterful performance with 38 points and nine assists on 5-for-11 3-point shooting.

Shining under those @TheGarden lights ✨

38 PTS | 9 AST | 5 REB @jalenbrunson1 pic.twitter.com/oBkiqjCwvF

— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) January 21, 2024
In his first game against the franchise where he spent the first six seasons of his NBA career, Anunoby finished with 14 points, seven rebounds and three blocks on 5-for-11 shooting. The Knicks are now 9-2 with the 3-and-D wing, and the team’s net rating has improved by a mind-boggling 41.2 points per 100 possessions with Anunoby on the floor compared to when he sits.

The Raptors are clearly headed in a different direction after trading Anunoby and Pascal Siakam already this season, with more moves likely on the way. Barrett and Quickley both joined the starting lineup immediately and have performed well so far. They should flank Scottie Barnes for the foreseeable future as the Raptors hope for a rapid rebuild.

Joel Embiid’s historic season continued on Saturday when he put up 33 points, 10 rebounds and five assists to lead the Philadelphia 76ers past the Charlotte Hornets, 97-89, in a game that won’t be replayed any time soon. With his 20th consecutive 30-point game, Embiid joined Wilt Chamberlain and James Harden in an exclusive club.

Those three stars are the only players in NBA history to have a 30-point streak to reach at least 20 games. It should come as little surprise that Chamberlain owns the all-time record with a remarkable 65 straight games during the 1961-62 season. The Hall of Famer has also pulled off the feat four times — double every other player in NBA history combined.

Embiid wasn’t at his most dominant against the Hornets, in large part due to a stream of double teams, but it says a lot that he shot 11-of-23 from the field and that’s regarded as a poor showing. He did enough to get the Sixers over the line, though, and that’s all that really matters. They’ve now won five games in a row and have pulled to within half a game of the Milwaukee Bucks for the No. 2 spot in the Eastern Conference.

For the season, Embiid is averaging 35 points, 11.4 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.9 blocks per game on 53.6% shooting. If it wasn’t for the new 65-game threshold, he would be the runaway favorite to win a second consecutive MVP. As it stands, Embiid is on a 62-game pace and needs to play in 34 of the Sixers’ final 41 games. That is not a huge margin of error, especially given Embiid’s injury history.

The Washington Wizards (6-28) host the New York Knicks (20-15) in an Eastern Conference matchup Saturday evening. This will be the second matchup of the regular season between these teams. On Nov. 17, the Knicks defeated Washington 120-99, marking their third straight win over the Wizards. The Knicks lead the all-time series 180-136.

Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. New York is a 9.5-point favorite in the latest Knicks vs. Wizards odds via SportsLine consensus. The over/under for total points is 238.5. Before making any Wizards vs. Knicks picks, you need to see the NBA predictions and betting advice from SportsLine’s advanced computer model.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every NBA game 10,000 times and has returned well over $10,000 in profit for $100 players on its top-rated NBA picks over the past five-plus seasons. The model enters Week 11 of the 2023-24 NBA season on a sizzling 106-59 roll on all top-rated NBA picks dating back to last season, returning well over $4,000. Anyone following it has seen huge returns.

Now, the model has set its sights on Knicks vs. Wizards and just locked in its picks and NBA predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see the model’s picks. Now, here are several NBA odds and betting lines for Wizards vs. Knicks:

Knicks vs. Wizards spread: New York -9.5
Knicks vs. Wizards over/under: 238.5 points
Knicks vs. Wizards money line: New York -402, Washington +313
NYK: The Knicks have hit the team total Over in 55 of last 87 games
WAS: The Wizards are 16-18 ATS this season
Knicks vs. Wizards picks: See picks at SportsLine
Why the Knicks can cover
Forward Julius Randle continues to be an aggressive scorer and rebounder. The 29-year-old averages 23.9 points, 9.4 boards and 4.7 assists per game. He is tied for 12th in the NBA in double-doubles (16). He’s scored 35-plus points in consecutive games. On Jan. 3, Randle had 35 points, six rebounds and four assists.

Guard Donte DiVincenzo provides New York with an energetic presence off the bench. DiVincenzo is a smart defender who owns a great feel for the game. The Villanova product averages 10.7 points and three rebounds per game. He’s scored double figures points in five of his last six games. On Dec. 30 against the Indiana Pacers, DiVincenzo dropped a career-high 38 points and four steals. See which team to pick here.

Why the Wizards can cover
Forward Kyle Kuzma is the team’s top scorer. He has a knack for scoring in a variety of different ways and has great instincts as a rebounder. The Utah product is averaging a career-high 22.4 points with 5.9 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game. On Christmas Eve versus the Atlanta Hawks, Kuzma totaled 38 points, eight boards and five assists.

Guard Tyus Jones has been a solid addition to the backcourt. The Duke product leads the team in assists (5.4) and steals (1.2) with 12.6 points per game. In the Dec. 26 Orlando Magic contest, Jones racked up 22 points, six boards and six assists. See which team to pick here.

How to make Wizards vs. Knicks picks
SportsLine’s model is leaning Over on the total, projecting 242 combined points. The model also says one side of the spread hits in over 50% of simulations. You can only see the model’s picks at SportsLine.

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is ready to return to the floor again in the 2023-24 campaign. The NBA suspended him indefinitely for an altercation with Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic on Dec. 12, and he missed Golden State’s next 12 games as a result. The league has elected to reinstate him, as first reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

Green has been undergoing counseling during his suspension and has held meetings with his team and the league to show the progress he has made. He will be required to continue checking in moving forward.

On Dec. 18, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that Green would be sidelined for at least three more weeks, which would mean the earliest he could return to the court would be Jan. 10 against the New Orleans Pelicans. That same day, however, Joe Dumars, the NBA’s executive vice president and head of basketball operations, reiterated that there was no minimum or maximum number of games attached to the suspension.

After Golden State’s 121-115 win against the Orlando Magic on Jan. 2, coach Steve Kerr told reporters he wasn’t sure how long it would take for Green to ramp up once he gets back in the practice facility. Kerr said that he’d texted with Green a little bit, but didn’t offer much of an update on his status.

“We’ve been giving him his space, he’s been giving us ours,” Kerr said.

Green will need about a week to work his way toward playing again, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Golden State is set to visit the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, Jan. 13.

The Warriors have stayed afloat without the 2016-17 Defensive Player of the Year and went 7-5 during his suspension. They’ve made several lineup changes since his departure and it’s unclear how he’ll fit into the picture moving forward.

SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green’s return to the basketball court will almost certainly go smoothly for the Golden State Warriors. His defense, playmaking and energy have all been sorely lacking since the league suspended him for 12 games following repeated incidents that culminated with a wild shot to the head of Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic.

Green’s successful return to the locker room, however, will require significantly more work.

After Green punched former teammate Jordan Poole before the beginning of last season, Warriors coach Steve Kerr mentioned several times how trust had to be regained. And what does “trust” mean? Some use slightly different terminology, but there are four widely accepted elements of trust:

Competency: Green has no problem with this, given his outstanding play over the course of his decorated career.
Communication: Green has been the vocal leader of the Warriors for the better part of the past decade.
Compassion: While he may appear occasionally cold-hearted on the court, Green has drawn rave reviews as a teammate from those who know him best — Kerr as well as Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson in particular.
Consistency: Ay, as Hamlet said, there’s the rub.
So many of Green’s troubles have come from a sense of unpredictability, and it’s nearly impossible to trust a leader when you don’t know how they will behave from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute. Kerr has spoken ad nauseam about the fine line Green attempts to tiptoe between passion and disorder. Over the past couple of seasons, he’s fallen off the high wire too many times in the wrong direction, and cost his team dearly in the process.

What he’ll have to work toward when he rejoins the Warriors locker room on Sunday is consistency, predictability, and ultimately trust. After Friday’s arduous 113-109 win against the three-win Detroit Pistons, Curry reflected on Golden State’s off-court difficulties over the past couple of seasons.

“Last year trying to back [up the championship] and all the things we had to deal with. This year is more of the same,” Curry exp;ained. “Different challenges, but a lot has gone into 35 games. You’ve got to stay fresh mentally, physically, not get exhausted or fatigued with all the things that you’re trying to balance, while also trying to perform on the court.”

That perfectly sums up the challenge for the Warriors, who just lost Chris Paul for an extended period of time due to a broken left hand. They need to figure out their basketball issues — incorporating Green into an already turbulent rotation, finding a consistent second scorer, etc. — all the while attempting to generate a cohesive unit with a veteran leader who has, once again, broken the team’s trust.

On the surface, there will be no hard feelings. The sentiment surrounding Green’s final incident before his suspension was sympathetic — that he needed to work on himself as a human being first and foremost. Basketball will come later. The organization and the league clearly feel that Green has done sufficient work in that area, so he will surely be welcomed by his teammates with open arms.

“I mean, it’s Draymond Green. He does everything,” Thompson said on Thursday night. “We’re all just so excited when he comes back, because it doesn’t even need to be stated what he means to this team.”

The Warriors may be excited, but it will certainly be a shock to the system. Green has been away from the team since mid-December, and his reinsertion will have to be handled delicately. Green will need to show contrition and accountability without losing the edge that has taken him from a second-round pick to a potential Hall of Famer.

Most of all, he’ll need to prove himself reliable by engendering a sense of consistency and predictability. Even if Green is able to do that, the 17-18 Warriors need it to happen fast if they’re going to salvage a roller coaster of a season.

“Every season you have different and unique challenges that, if a team is trying to reach their full potential, you have to persevere through,” Curry said. “This season’s been an extreme case of that.”

A cross-conference tilt has the San Antonio Spurs (5-29) matching up against the Cleveland Cavaliers (20-15) on Sunday afternoon. The Spurs have been struggling all season long, dropping nine of their last 10 games. On Thursday, the Milwaukee Bucks beat San Antonio 125-121. Cleveland will look to extend its win streak to three games on Sunday. In Friday’s tilt, the Cavaliers knocked off the Wizards 114-90. Darius Garland (jaw) and Evan Mobley (knee) are both out for Cleveland.

Tip-off is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. The Cavaliers are 10.5-point favorites in the latest Spurs vs. Cavaliers odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 231.5. Before making any Cavaliers vs. Spurs picks, you’ll want to see the NBA predictions and betting advice from the proven computer model at SportsLine.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every NBA game 10,000 times and has returned well over $10,000 in profit for $100 players on its top-rated NBA picks over the past five-plus seasons. The model enters Week 11 of the 2023-24 NBA season on a sizzling 106-59 roll on all top-rated NBA picks dating back to last season, returning well over $4,000. Anyone following it has seen huge returns.

Now, the model has set its sights on Spurs vs. Cavaliers and just locked in its picks and NBA predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see the model’s picks. Here are several NBA odds and betting lines for Cavaliers vs. Spurs:

Spurs vs. Cavaliers spread: Cleveland -10.5
Spurs vs. Cavaliers over/under: 231.5 points
Spurs vs. Cavaliers money line: Cleveland -520, San Antonio +386
SA: The Spurs are 1-13 in their last 14 games on the road
CLE: The Cavaliers are 7-3 ATS in their last 10 games
Spurs vs. Cavaliers picks: See picks at SportsLine
Why the Cavaliers can cover
Guard Donovan Mitchell is a reliable offensive weapon for Cleveland. Mitchell has the athleticism to soar to the rim with the jumper to be a nice asset from the perimeter. The four-time All-Star is eighth in the NBA in points (27.6) to go along with 5.4 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game. He also leads the team in steals (1.9). In his last game, Mitchell finished with 26 points, four assists, and went 5-of-8 from downtown.

Guard Caris LeVert brings some juice off the bench. LeVert has crafty ball handles that allow him to create space on each level. The Michigan product logs 16 points and 4.2 assists per game. He’s scored 20-plus points in four of his last seven games. In the New Year’s Day loss to the Toronto Raptors, LeVert totaled 31 points and four assists. See which team to pick here.

Why the Spurs can cover
Center Victor Wembanyama has already made his presence felt on the floor. Wembanyama (7’4) has a ridiculous wingspan that gives him the ability to soar over opposing players for dunks, blocks, and rebounds. He leads the team in both points (19.2) and rebounds (10.1). On Thursday versus the Bucks, Wembanyama recorded 27 points, nine rebounds, and five blocks.

Guard Devin Vassell gives San Antonio a perimeter shooter who plays defense at a high level. Vassell can score off the dribble or as a catch-and-shoot option. The Florida State product logs 18.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game. Additionally, he’s making 37% of his 3-point attempts. In his last outing, Vassell dropped 34 points, six boards, and four assists. See which team to pick here.

How to make Cavaliers vs. Spurs picks
SportsLine’s model is leaning Under on the total, projecting 230 combined points. The model also says one side of the spread hits in nearly 70% of simulations. You can only see the model’s picks at SportsLine.

The Portland Trail Blazers will face off against the Brooklyn Nets at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday at the Barclays Center. Brooklyn is 16-20 overall and 10-8 at home, while Portland is 9-25 overall and 4-14 on the road. The Nets swept the season series in 2022-23 and also covered the spread in both matchups.

However, both teams have struggled against the spread of late, with the Blazers failing to cover in four of five and the Nets failing to cover in six of seven. Brooklyn is favored by 8.5 points in the latest Nets vs. Trail Blazers odds, while the over/under is 226 points. Before entering any Nets vs. Trail Blazers picks, you’ll want to see the NBA predictions from the model at SportsLine.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every NBA game 10,000 times and has returned well over $10,000 in profit for $100 players on its top-rated NBA picks over the past five-plus seasons. The model enters Week 11 of the 2023-24 NBA season on a sizzling 106-59 roll on all top-rated NBA picks dating back to last season, returning well over $4,000. Anyone following it has seen huge returns.

The model has set its sights on Portland vs. Brooklyn. You can head to SportsLine to see its picks. Here are several NBA betting lines for the game:

Nets vs. Trail Blazers spread: Nets -8.5
Nets vs. Trail Blazers over/under: 226 points
Nets vs. Trail Blazers money line: Nets: -353, Trail Blazers: +279
Nets vs. Trail Blazers picks: See picks here
What you need to know about the Trail Blazers
The Trail Blazers’ recent rough patch got a bit rougher on Friday after their third straight loss. They were dealt a punishing 139-103 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks. No. 3 overall pick Scoot Henderson secured his fourth double-double of the season in the loss with 17 points and 10 assists.

Henderson is averaging 12.4 points and 5.1 assists per game this season but over his last six games, he’s averaging 17.5 points and 8.2 assists while shooting 41.4% from the 3-point line. Anfernee Simons struggled with a 1-for-8 shooting night where he only scored six points but he’s averaging a career-high 24.5 points per game for the season.

What you need to know about the Nets
Meanwhile, the Nets’ five-game losing streak finally came to an end on Friday. They scored a 124-115 win over Oklahoma City for their first win of the new year. Nicolas Claxton dropped a double-double on a season-high 23 points while also pulling down 13 rebounds.

Spencer Dinwiddie also had 23 points in the victory and Dennis Smith Jr. stuffed the stat sheet with 13 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists and two steals off the bench. However, the Nets are only shooting 28.4% from the 3-point line as a team over their last six games.

How to make Nets vs. Trail Blazers picks
The model has simulated Nets vs. Trail Blazers 10,000 times and the results are in. We can tell you that the model is leaning Under and it’s also generated a point-spread pick that hits 70% of the time. You can only see the pick at SportsLine.

The Golden State Warriors’ already teetering season took another dark turn on Friday night when Chris Paul suffered a fractured left hand in a narrow win over the Detroit Pistons. Paul will undergo surgery next week and is expected to miss four-to-six weeks, according to Adrian Wojnarowski.

“I feel so bad for Chris,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I know he’s had a couple of surgeries before, I believe, maybe I think it was on the other hand, but, yeah, I saw him holding it and instantly I was worried. Just got the the word after walking off the floor. So I feel terrible for Chris and, obviously, guys will step up and be ready to play and we’re going to have to hold down the fort without him.”

Hold down the fort without Paul? The Warriors’ fort was already folding with him. They’re under .500 and clinging to the West’s final Play-In Tournament spot. Draymond Green, who was reinstated on Saturday, will have to earn back the locker room’s trust. Jonathan Kuminga is upset with his role. Klay Thompson is having to pep-talk himself into embracing the downslope of his career.

On Friday, the Warriors needed two Stephen Curry 28-footers inside the final minute and five seconds to squeak out a home win against the lowly Pistons, who are barely a week removed from a 28-game losing streak.

Paul isn’t anything close to what he used to be, a common theme within this storied franchise right now, but he’s a key part of this team. He plays in the neighborhood of 30 minutes a night. He closes games. It sounds weird to say this, but at least Paul’s absence, along with Gary Payton II’s, will at least make Kerr’s life a little easier in terms of clearing some space in a crowded rotation.

“Both Brandin [Podziemski] and Cory [Joseph] will play more at the point,” Kerr said. “[This] probably brings Moses [Moody] also back into the rotation because you’re replacing 30 minutes from Chris. So we won’t replace all those minutes with one guy, we’ll probably spread them out.”

Moody, who has looked like an up-and-coming guy in Kerr’s rotation at various points, has been taking DNPs of late, completely locked out of the rotation. He’ll get another chance to solidify something, though with Green coming back and Payton at some point, that might be short-lived.

It feels like a trade is inevitable to clarify some of this, and truth be told, Paul could still be one of the candidates to be shipped out as an expiring contract. But that’s all for a later time. Right now, Paul is headed for surgery and the Warriors are clinging to life.

We’ve got another exciting Pacific Division matchup on the NBA schedule as the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers are set to tip at 9:30 p.m. ET on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena. The Lakers are 17-19 overall and 11-6 at home, while the Clippers are 22-12 overall and 8-8 on the road. The Clippers have won nine of 10 against their hometown rivals and have covered the spread in eight of those contests.

They’re also 18-16 against the number this season, while the Lakers are 15-21 against the spread. The Clippers are favored by 5.5 points in the latest Lakers vs. Clippers odds and the over/under is 232.5 points. Before entering any Lakers vs. Clippers picks, you’ll want to see the NBA predictions from the model at SportsLine.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every NBA game 10,000 times and has returned well over $10,000 in profit for $100 players on its top-rated NBA picks over the past five-plus seasons. The model enters Week 11 of the 2023-24 NBA season on a sizzling 106-59 roll on all top-rated NBA picks dating back to last season, returning well over $4,000. Anyone following it has seen huge returns.

The model has set its sights on Lakers vs. Clippers. You can head to SportsLine to see its picks. Here are several NBA betting lines for the game:

Lakers vs. Clippers spread: Lakers +5.5
Lakers vs. Clippers over/under: 232.5 points
Lakers vs. Clippers money line: Lakers: +168, Clippers: -203
Lakers vs. Clippers picks: See picks here
What you need to know about the Lakers
The Lakers suffered a tough blow as they fell 127-113 to the Memphis Grizzlies for their fourth consecutive loss on Friday. LeBron James scored 32 points to go along with seven assists and five rebounds and Austin Reaves dropped a double-double with 19 points and 12 assists.

Anthony Davis also had 31 points in the defeat and is averaging 25.3 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.6 blocks per game this season. Davis is listed as probable for Sunday’s game with an ankle injury and the Lakers are 0-2 this season without Davis in the lineup, so his status will be critical.

What you need to know about the Clippers
Meanwhile, the Clippers came tearing into Friday’s game with four straight wins, a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 11.5 points, and they left with even more momentum. They greeted the New Year with a 111-95 victory over New Orleans.

Paul George had a game-high 24 points in the victory and James Harden dished out 13 assists. The Clippers held the Pelicans to just 35.9% shooting from the floor and are currently fifth in the NBA in field-goal percentage defense (45.7%).

How to make Lakers vs. Clippers picks
The model has simulated Lakers vs. Clippers 10,000 times and the results are in. We can tell you that the model is leaning Over and it’s also generated a point-spread pick that hits well over 50% of the time. You can only see the pick at SportsLine.

Whenever I watch the Golden State Warriors these days, I think about the movie Goodfellas. I see Henry Hill, played by the late, great Ray Liotta, looking like a haggard wreck, paranoid to step one foot into the world he once had by the you know what for fear of being whacked right outside the jail.

“This is the bad time,” he says.

For the Warriors, this is indeed the bad time. They lost again on Sunday. A 133-118 whacking at the hands of the Raptors. Their fifth loss in seven games. Bad enough to drop them below the play-in line at 17-19.

If you’re a Warriors fan, this bitter ending to a once golden era is becoming increasingly painful to watch. Draymond Green is off the rails. Klay Thompson might as well be trying to outrun helicopters. In the case against Steve Kerr, Jonathan Kuminga has turned state’s evidence.

If you’re not a Warriors fan, this is the best part of the movie. This is where the guys who for so long acted like they were untouchable come crashing down. As it turns out, the Warriors were never, as Joe Lacob so arrogantly claimed in 2016, “light years ahead of probably every other team in structure, in planning, in how we’re going to go about things.”

In fact, the 2022 title notwithstanding, the Warriors have botched just about every opportunity to validate this supposed organizational superiority. How often does a team with six straight Finals appearances get the No. 2 overall pick two years removed from its last championship? It was another lottery ticket that fell into Golden State’s lap. All they had to do was cash it in.

LaMelo Ball. Tyrese Haliburton. Tyrese Maxey. All these guys were available.

The Warriors took James Wiseman, one of the biggest busts in recent memory.

There are only two explanations for how poorly Wiseman turned out for the Warriors. Either he wasn’t any good to begin with, in which case Golden State’s talent evaluators shot a blank, or he was as talented as the Warriors tried for so long to claim but just wasn’t properly developed. Either way, Wiseman was at the front end of a futile two-timeline fantasy the Warriors are still, stubbornly, trying pull off.

One year after taking Wiseman, the Warriors had two more lottery picks — with which they took Kuminga one spot ahead of future All-Star Franz Wagner, and Moses Moody two spots ahead of Alperen Sengun, who is on the fast track to stardom.

It’s true, all teams miss on draft picks. But the Warriors made themselves out to be different. Smarter. Turns out, they’re not. They’re just an organization that lucked into Stephen Curry long before Lacob arrived, and subsequently signed Curry to a clearance-rack contract.

That contract eventually allowed them to sign Kevin Durant.

This isn’t to say the Warriors haven’t done smart things along the way. They traded for Andrew Bogut. They resisted trading Thompson for Kevin Love, though half the brass was reportedly in favor of making that deal. They fired Mark Jackson, and hired Kerr. They signed Andre Iguodala, but even that was a backup plan. Their first choice was Dwight Howard. He did them the favor of going to Houston. Again, let’s not confuse smart with lucky.

But this stuff happened more than a decade ago anyway. Even if you subscribe to the idea that the Warriors were more smart than lucky leading up to and during their golden years, they have been anything but since. They could’ve traded Wiseman before he became a negative asset, but they refused to admit their mistake until it was too late. They could have traded Moody last year, but of course they saw him as a foundational piece. Now he’s taking DNPs.

And then we have Kuminga, whom the Warriors — stop me if you’ve heard this before — are reportedly “loathe to trade” as they see him as a “potential star who can help them win now and in the future,” as reported by Michael Grange.

Yet again, the Warriors cannot give up on this two-timeline thing. Basically no team other than the Spurs — who lucked into Kawhi Leonard while Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili were still championship-level players — has pulled it off, but the Warriors, of course, aren’t like other teams. They’re smart!

So smart that Kerr can’t even figure out when to play Kuminga. He hates playing him alongside Andrew Wiggins like he hates pick-and-roll offense, even though Golden State lacks severely for athleticism and downhill leverage. In Golden State’s meltdown loss to the Nuggets last Thursday, Kuminga had scored a super-efficient 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting when he came out of the game at the 5:38 mark of the third quarter. He never went back in.

On Sunday, Kerr started Wiggins and Kuminga together, then, after the Warriors were blitzed over the first 24 minutes, replaced them for the second half with Brandin Podziemski and Dario Saric, along with Kevon Looney for Trayce Jackson-Davis. NBA teams don’t scrap 60% of their starting lineup at halftime because they’re lights years ahead. They do it because they’re 27 points behind.

The simple truth is Kerr and the Warriors are throwing everything they can think of against the wall, and none of it is sticking. They committed $100 million to Green, who has essentially derailed the past two seasons. They’re probably going to give Thompson a legacy deal this summer, and continue to play him over the guys they supposedly want to develop. They really had themselves believing that Chris Paul was some secret-sauce move. Turns out, he’s just as expired as all the other ingredients.

And now Curry isn’t even able to cover up the stink of their egg noodles and ketchup. He had nine points on Sunday. Missed all nine of his 3-pointers. He’s shooting under 42% since Dec. 1.

It was only because of Curry’s brilliance to start the season that the Warriors were even able to masquerade as a serious team. Now they can’t even fool themselves. They’re an average nobody. And unless they look in the mirror and make some serious, probably unpopular changes, they are going to be forced to live what is left of their once-blessed basketball life like a schnook.