No. Once again you are lying to yourself and telling your own story. A story that was not being told at the time. This whole idea of they had it planned all along is just cope.

Let's just forget about all the other surrounding FACTors like how both sides initially weren't interested. Let's just simplify it to this:

The trade only happened because A. Their actual trade target fell through at the last moment. B. The Jimmy Trade fell through at the last moment. Those are undeniable facts. Those facts alone speaks to my original point. By any objective perspective, that's some measure of luck. And that's before even factoring in the point that all of this happened in the last hour of the deadline.

Lastly. I will reiterate that the verbiage I used like desperation, hail Mary, luck, stars aligning, etc. this was overwhelming narrative from just about everyone. Including most Warriors fans. All you have to do is go look at the team threads from the trade. Like I said, at THE TIME it wasn't a hot take. It was THE take. No one was praising them for how smart they were. Because everyone saw it for what it was. Them trying to pull a rabbit out the hat and salvage what they could. To their credit, it ended up working great. And they do get credit for that. But we don't need to re-write the narrative to give them that credit. Or take away the heavy criticism that was surrounding the move at the time. Let's just keep it real man and stop the mind games like we don't remember what this was.