Warriors Trade Rumors: Front office reportedly in 'aggressive' pursuit of co-star for Steph Curry after Draymond Green's bench role

The Golden State Warriors were one of the hottest teams at the beginning of the season. However, they have now lost six of their last 10 games, and Steve Kerr is reportedly looking for a catalyst.

That catalyst might not be on the team. According to a report by Shams Charania of ESPN, the team is aggressively looking to find a co-star for Stephen Curry.

That has led to the team making a surprising shift, sending Draymond Green to the second unit in favor of Jonathan Kuminga.

"A telltale moment happened for the Warriors on Friday night, when Curry, Green and coach Steve Kerr spoke about this being fourth-year forward Jonathan Kuminga's time to take the mantle and Green accepted a bench role for Kuminga to start at power forward," Charania wrote on Tuesday.

Warriors star Draymond Green reacts to being benched

Green is a proven veteran and has been the team's glue guy for almost a decade. He knows that Kuminga is a rising star in this game and if the Warriors can rely on him for years to come, it only makes sense that he gets an opportunity.

"Of course, I'm OK with it," Green said to reporters on Saturday. "I have been one of JK's biggest fans since he's been here. And so if he has an opportunity to start, you can't be hypocritical, and (if) they're like we want him to start, but it'll be [up to] you, you can't be like, ah, it's not for me, that don't work. I want to see him do well. So if his opportunity goes through me, then it is what it is. He earned the opportunity."

Moreover, Green knows it doesn't have anything to do with him, and as much as he could start somewhere else, he only wants to help his team regardless of his role.

"I don't necessarily look at it as like a demotion," Green said. "I'm a starter in the NBA. I know that. But if it's something to try to help this team win, I'm always going to be for it. I hate losing."

Green gets a lot of criticism for his character, but it also speaks volumes about his leadership, maturity and team-first mentality. Not many future Hall of Famers would've embraced that role, and it'll now be up to everybody else to follow his lead and do whatever it takes to help this team get back to the mountaintop.