Trouble in basketball paradise?

Golden State will be at a crossroads over the next couple seasons, the move to San Francisco’s Chase Center next season notwithstanding. Both Durant and Klay Thompson are eligible for free agency at the end of this season, and Green’s contract runs out at the end of next year.

Privately, Warriors management has to think Thompson is the most important signing for one simple reason: it will be free of drama. Thompson’s representatives and Warriors’ brass will, coolly, calmly and matter-of-factly figure something out. Strictly business.

Durant and Green? Both are divas and their negotiations will be social media fodder for the rest of their time with the team.

Personally, I think Durant has to be Golden State’s first priority. He is a generational talent and will go down in NBA history as one of the best of all time. The trio of Durant, Thompson and Steph Curry is more than enough to win a couple more championships.

If anyone leaves, it’s probably Green and he is sowing the seeds right now. In the bigger picture, Green declining to pass is a statement that he will no longer blindly defer to KD.

You can’t really blame Green. He is on the list of best all-around players in the NBA right now. But his fiery personality, while bringing energy to the court, has also been a detriment to the team several times. His act has to be wearing thin on players, coaches and management.

I think management showed where its loyalties lie in issuing the suspension to Green, who was, by all accounts, the instigator in the whole fracas. Now, it may be just to show that the organization has Durant’s back as way of trying to keep him in San Francisco and you’d have to expect the Warriors to do some schmoozing of a pending free agent.

I think it also sends a message to Green that they are willing to call him out when he crosses the line. Is he willing to dial it back a notch for the betterment of the team, or is this just the first incident that leads him to walking away from the Warriors?

It will certainly add some spice to a long regular season.

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Burlingame High School wrestling matches will get a lot more exciting soon as the San Mateo Union High School District is expected to approve spending on a wrestling spotlight.

The $36,000 budget is coming from a donation by the Peter and Dolores Umland trust. Peter Umland was a 1954 Burlingame alumnus, who after passing away in 2001, made the high school district a residual beneficiary of the Umland trust.

While a spotlight may seem silly, it does create a better atmosphere for high school wrestling matches. With the gym lights off, each match under the spotlight gets the full attention of the fans in attendance.

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Not that there was much choice, but the CIF has, logically, pushed back the state football playoff rounds by a week because of the fires raging in the state.

After a statewide meeting with all 10 section commissioners, the CIF decided to push the Nor Cal bowl games to Dec. 7-8, with the state championship games taking place Dec. 14-15.

Whether sections can finish up their tournaments on time remains to be seen.

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Wednesday marked the initial wave of letter-of-intent signings for those high school athletes who are being accepted to play college at the four-year level.

A few of the signings Wednesday included a pair of athletes from Half Moon Bay. Kyle Shuttle, a gymnast from El Granada, signed a LOI to compete at University of California next year. Shuttle finished second in the U17 Junior Olympics in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma back in May.

Morgan Day, who has starred for the Cougars’ girls’ soccer team, will play at Academy of Arts University.

Holly Fletcher, a softball pitcher from Aragon, will play at University of South Dakota.

Nathan Mollat can be reached by email: nathan@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: 344-5200 ext. 117.