"It's starting to sound more and more like the Warriors' biggest offseason acquisitions are going to be executive board member Jerry West and coach Mark Jackson.

General manager Larry Riley is aggressively working the phones for potential trades, and assistant general manager Bob Myers is in Los Angeles talking to representatives about free-agent players. The brass had long meetings with owner Joe Lacob on Monday and Tuesday to discuss preseason plans.

But adding a high-profile name to the roster is unlikely. The Warriors, with about $6 million in cap space, are expected to be priced out of the sweepstakes for top centers Marc Gasol, Tyson Chandler or Nenê.

"To make a mistake right now with this roster would set us back," Riley said during a news conference at Oracle Arena on Thursday, the first day locked-out players were allowed in team facilities. "We're going to come up with a decision that fits us but doesn't derail any progress that we could make."

The Warriors have a relatively young core that they are convinced can grow together and succeed, and they believe teams with cap room could overspend on a mediocre free-agent class. Also, the Warriors are keeping their eye on a 2012 draft class, a loaded crop that one scout said could have 10 different players that would have been the No. 1 overall pick in 2011."