Can the Warriors improve and shed salary at the same time?
Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson #11 and Draymond Green #23 leave the court after the Sacramento King’s 118-94 NBA play-in tournament win at the Golden One Center in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Thompson is now a free agent. Their champion core is now aged and embarrassed. Their young players are not good enough to protract the dynasty. The Warriors are stuck in between stations.
“I have no reason to think that our ownership group aren’t going to take care of us,” Green said Tuesday. “There’s a lot of organizations that will only do what’s best for the organization. This isn’t one of them.”Surely Greg Lawrence, Thompson’s agent, will be keen for the wing to land a deal similar to what Jrue Holiday just signed with the Celtics — four years, $135 million.
I’m no business major, but coming off a season where the Warriors were the most expensive team in NBA history but were only the No. 10 seed in the West, slashing salary seems like a good option.But if the Warriors want to stop paying the tax altogether or add another player on a serious veteran contract, Golden State will have to move Andrew Wiggins, too. To do that, they’ll likely have to attach a first-round draft pick to him in a trade.
Jonathan Kuminga will be extension-eligible this offseason. So while he’s affordable today — perhaps even a bargain — those times won’t last.McDaniels is an outstanding defender, but he’s a 10-point-per-game player, and he’ll be paid $30 million a season starting next season.Now, Kuminga is going to get at least that. At age 21, he was nearly a 20-point-per-game scorer down the stretch.The Warriors must ask if they can do better with that salary space over the next few seasons.
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