DECEMBER 23: The signing is official, according to a team press release.
DECEMBER 22: The Warriors are calling up shooting guard Quinndary Weatherspoon from their G League affiliate, per Shams Charania of The Athletic, who reports (via Twitter) that the two sides have agreed to a 10-day deal. Golden State will complete the signing using a hardship exception.
The Warriors haven’t been hit too hard yet by COVID-19 this month, but do have two players in the protocols for the time being — Jordan Poole entered the protocols last Friday and Andrew Wiggins joined him on Sunday. This will be the club’s first hardship signing of the season.
The 49th overall pick in the 2019 draft, Weatherspoon spent his first two professional seasons with San Antonio, logging limited minutes in a total of 31 games. This season, he has been a regular contributor for the Santa Cruz Warriors in the G League, averaging 16.1 PPG, 4.3 RPG, and 3.7 APG on .442/.281/.905 shooting through nine games (27.4 MPG).
Golden State’s team salary is far above the luxury tax line, but Weatherspoon’s 10-day deal won’t count for cap or tax purposes. He’ll earn $95,930 across 10 days.
Soon enough we’ll see Clarence Weatherspoon agree to a 10 day.
Oh goodey, Warriors add another Midget to the Collection. Might as well join a 6-foot-5 and Under league.
This team avoids Signing players taller than 6-foot-7 at all Costs.
Well, good luck guarding Gobert, Ayton, Embiid, Giannis, Brook Lopez, etc. in the later stages of the Playoffs with these midgets.
Kevon Looney either doesn’t have the size or footspeed to guard the Elite big men in the league. He gets an A for effort but will be over-matched again, like he was in the Play-in Tournament (AD, Montrezl and Valanciunas). And while James Wiseman will be returning at some point, we don’t know what version we will be geting of him after knee surgery.
Acknowledged that Draymond can guard some of these Centers for spot Minutes, the team gets hurt in the Minutes that some other player is guarding them. See the 76’ers game earlier this month.
Just sayin’. Would be nice to add one more player with size, that can also get out to contest shots on the perimeter. Harry Giles is available. Bismack Biyambo is another. There are big men out there that they can Sign.
Huh? You want to start a guy who knows nothing about the rest of the team and playbook. It’ll be Wiseman in 2020 all over again. Might as dig up Manute Bol. He’ll be just as effective.
Not knowing the playbook is not stopping other teams from signing Players or Big men right now.
Its basketball, not brain surgery.
Fine, if we want to speed up the Learning curve, then we should have Signed old friend Marquese Chriss this week instead of the Mavericks, or sign Jordan Bell, who is playing for us in Santa Cruz.
My point is this – we suffer when the team asks Nemanja Bjelica to play Center and guard players like Joel Embiid.
As we go deeper into the Playoffs, we are going to face the Elite big men again. In the Play-In Tournament, Looney was played off the court against the Lakers and Grizzlies. He was a non-factor. Please go back and watch those games. Its a big reason why we lost those games last year. We didn’t match up with Anthony Davis, Montrezl Harrell and Jonas Valanciunas. Its going to happen again. Lets get someone now so that they know the Playbook by playoffs time. I don’t think Porter, Kuminga, or JTA will have success trying to slow down Giannis, etc. We need to throw waves of big bodies at him.
Chriss is not very good defensively. Bell is 6’9″.
Pretty odd to start a rant over a ten day signing.
Granted, its more of a Rant of mine about the Warriors always adding Smaller players when they have an opportunity to Sign someone Taller.
Yes, the game has changed, it is no longer the Era of Big men, i get that, but as we saw in the last NBA Finals and Conference finals, those 4 teams had quality Big men.
Teams still need SIZE to matchup, but the Warriors have not filled out their Roster accordingly. When the roster has only 2 players taller than 6-foot-9, you have not prepared your team for a matchup series with the Bucks, 76’ers, etc.
The Suns couldn’t slow down Giannis in the NBA Finals, even with DeAndre Ayton guarding him frequently. I dont know why the team thinks it can slow him down with a bunch of 6-foot-5 guys?
They are not prepared to handle a matchup with the Bucks or 76’ers in an NBA Finals. Sadly, they will likely find out if they advance that far.
Anything is better than Chiozza. He was getting slammed on last game. way too short to stop bigger players. He as being pushed around on defense. On offense he drives in the middle but can’t take a shot.
I think you’re getting way ahead of yourself talking about the 76ers in the finals. They may not even avoid the play-in Tournament.
Brooklyn has a much better chance and they are hardly loaded at the center position.
BTW the undersized Warriors massively outrebounded the Suns in both matchups this season.
they are down 3 shooters now. they need to replace that with the COVID 10-day contract. look at the line.
The Golden State Warriors have the number one defense in the entire NBA. And by far. Defense is the least of their problems.
I’m tired of this midget ball . Seems like all you need to Do to be in the NBA now is a 3 point shot. Ugly basketball. Celtics love midget ball too
I’m tired of this midget ball . Seems like all you need to Do to be in the NBA now is a 3 point shot. Ugly basketball. Celtics love midget ball too
Uh, they prefer to call it small people ball.
Next the NBA will have. 6’3 centers. Got to love this garbage basketball
They prefer to call it discarded waste basketball.
Lots of drunk posting in this comment section. You guys stressed before Christmas?
They prefer to call it alcohol enhanced posting.