NOVEMBER 24: The Warriors have made their deal with Wanamaker official, per the NBA’s transactions log. According to Keith Smith of Yahoo Sports (Twitter link), Golden State used a portion of its taxpayer mid-level exception to complete the signing.
NOVEMBER 21: The Warriors have reached a one-year, $2.25MM agreement with free agent point guard Brad Wanamaker, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal was confirmed by his agent, Steve McCaskill.
Golden State can either use part of its $5.7MM taxpayer’s mid-level exception to complete the signing or it can wait to see if the league grants its request for a disabled player exception, notes Bobby Marks of ESPN (Twitter link). The DPE would be worth $9.3MM, but it can only be used on one player, so the Warriors would forfeit the rest if they sign Wanamaker with it.
His $2.25MM salary will raise Golden State’s tax bill by about $12MM, Marks adds (Twitter link), but the team’s projected $132MM tax is likely to be lowered because of a league-wide drop in revenue.
Wanamaker had a strong second season in Boston, playing in 71 games and averaging 6.9 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per night. He shoots 37.6% from three-point range and the Celtics were slightly better defensively with him on the court, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic. Wanamaker will serve as a back-up to Stephen Curry.
That’s a steel
12m I don’t think so, you have to remember the tax penalty that comes with it he’s one of those players you could get for a league minimal contract
Yes but if they spend any more money on the players salary that tax bill goes way up. 2 point something is a great deal even though it cost the Warriors 12.
Quiet, unassuming, but he’s steady off that bench …….. seems to only do positive things, the spot minutes that he plays.
Nice pick-up for the WARRIORS.
Wait – he ain’t replacing curry as starting pg?
He doesn’t do anything great, but he does everything right. Good backup.
Brad Wanamaker is a solid player.
if $2.25MM agreement, it’s not vet min
If $2.08MM agreement, its a vet min.
This Vet Min is only $0.7M taxable.
Minimum salary for Wanamaker would be $1.62M, as he only has 2 yrs in the NBA.
According to reporter Poole, Warriors did not use MLE to sign him.
Then they would have to use the entire DPE to sign him, and that’s only if the league grants their request for one. Otherwise they will have to either pay him the vet minimum or use part of their MLE.
Poole is mistaken.
thought there were a couple of better options for them, but several of them were off the board, and he does at least give them a playmaker that can play next to Curry, and play some defense, although not the multipositional defender I thought they’d look for