The Warriors have issued a qualifying offer to point guard Quinn Cook, thus making him a restricted free agent, tweets Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes.
Golden State wields Cook’s Early Bird rights with his cap hold being $1,931,189. Cook becomes the second Warriors player in as many days to enter restricted free agency as Golden State also issued a qualifying offer to Jordan Bell.
Cook, 26, appeared in a career-high 74 games (10 starts) for the Warriors during the 2018-19 season. As the primary backup to Stephen Curry, Cook averaged 6.9 PPG and 1.6 APG in 14.3 minutes per contest. Cook’s perimeter shooting is his signature, evidenced by his 40.5% mark from beyond the arc last season.
Cook figures to draw significant interest, as teams may try to put pressure on a Warriors team focused on its other free agents.
More likely he is going where Durant goes. They are BFF so if another team offers Cook a big contract it means they are pursuing Durant too.
And that’s the long and short of it.
2 years $10M with the Knicks? They gave it to Baker
And look at how that turned out.
2 years, $9M to come to home to DC and start.