Warriors forward/center Draymond Green is one of several key Golden State players currently eligible to sign a contract extension. However, when asked on Sunday about his contract situation, he told reporters that he’s not counting on signing a new deal before the 2022/23 season begins.
“Whether I’d like to or not, I don’t think it will happen,” Green said, per Anthony Slater of The Athletic (video link). “So for me, I’m just focused on this season and being as great as I can be, as I know I’m capable of being, and winning another championship. And reaching the individual goals that I have as well. I think that’s my main focus.”
Green is technically under contract for two more seasons, but the second year is a player option, so he can become an unrestricted free agent in 2023. He’ll earn approximately $25.8MM this season, with a $27.6MM option for ’23/24.
If he were to sign a long-term extension that begins in 2023, replacing his player option, Green would be eligible to earn up to $138.7MM over four years. A report in July suggested that the 32-year-old believes he’s earned that sort of contract, but it would be a surprise if the Warriors were to make that strong an offer this fall. With Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins also entering contract years, Golden State will do its best to try to lock up all three players to deals well below the max in order to avoid pushing the franchise’s record-setting luxury tax payments even higher.
Poole and Wiggins were also asked about possible extensions on Sunday — both players indicated they’re letting their agents handle those negotiations and brushed off concerns about the possible pressure of a contract year, as Dalton Johnson of NBC Sports Bay Area writes.
Poole, who expressed confidence that he and the Warriors will be able to figure something out, will be a restricted free agent next summer if he doesn’t sign a rookie scale extension this fall. Wiggins will become an unrestricted free agent after the season if he doesn’t sign a veteran extension.
He’s gone. He wants way more money than the Warriors will give him. Perhaps another team like the Pistons will pay up for his influence and whatever part of his defensive and limited offensive game remains.
They’re going to go for ring number five this season and then a couple of guys will probably want to be their own team leader. Hopefully Wiggins takes a little discount to stay because he’s the happiest he’s ever been, but Draymond Green and Jordan Poole will probably get paid elsewhere.
WOW. No dollar numbers were expressed in the article, but you say they are far apart. That is bizarre.
He went discount last time. He’s not doing it again.
In fact a couple guys went discount last time. But then they got paid on the next one. Well except for Harrison Barnes he didn’t want the discount and he left. They would have been happy with him and there would have been no Kevin durant. But Barnes wanted his money and wasn’t waiting.
So Green and Thompson took discounts and Thompson’s turn came he got the max. Green took a SECOND discount at $25 x 4, in his mind at least. He wants his money this time but it’s not coming from the Warriors.
Drays skill set is so unique and so vital to the Dubs success. I really worry about his durability though. I think he’s thinking there will be a spot for him in LA. Especially the Lakers, who will have $ to pay him starting ’23-’24.
@Gary
I’m betting Poole signs the extension offer before the deadline.
How about this?
Trade Draymond to Magic for Chuma Okeke, same height and same weight as Draymond
Magic has cap room
Add salary to make it work
Draymond goes to third team
Draymond to Knicks
Sillivan, as I and others have said, when you have a championship Squad, you definitely run it back. You don’t break that up because it is so extremely difficult to get there in the first place.
So one more run this coming season and then figure out contracts and salaries next summer.
NBA OK2, That’s a good bet. You could be right. Hopefully he goes for the 20 million or 22 million per year. But I have a feeling he and his agent thinks one of the lottery teams will give more than he can pass up and the Warriors won’t match it.
In your opinion how much will Jordan Poole sign for before the extension deadline mid October?
Gary, I’d say it depends on what kind of a discount poole is willing to grant to stay with the dynasty. $25 mil/yr seems fair.
Again you could be right, but I don’t think the Warriors go that high with Jordan Poole.
I say you could be right because that’s the $$ Draymond Green took when he signed his below Max deal couple years ago. But I don’t think it happens because Green is a starter, Poole comes off the bench. They’re not paying 25 million dollars a year for the Sixth Man. They’ll go young player first before they do that. Well, young player or Donte deVincenzo type at 5 million per year.
@ Gary,
That number was just a guess based on Brunson and Barrett’s deals. Poole is 23, that means he IS a “young player”. GSW uses him as a 6th man when everyone’s healthy, but he started 51 games last season and would start anywhere that would be making him an offer as a RFA.
Poole: “I’ll have my reps handle this. I have the utmost faith and confidence that we’ll work something out, but I’m just here to play basketball.”
To me that translates as “we can come to an agreement as to my market value”.
We will see, with the new TV contract the cap will go up.
$25 million a year for Poole is a joke, right? That’s an enormous overpay. The guy hasn’t proven he can do anything.
@Giants:
You’re entitled to your opinion, wrong as it obviously is.
It remains to be seen but hopefully 2 of these 5 young guys become all star type players. Then 1 more guy become very good.
Moses Moody
James Wiseman
Jonathan Kuminga
Ryan Rollins
Patrick Baldwin Jr.
With all the development coaches and Veteran influence on the team, I’m sure hoping that will happen. It’s rare but would be pretty incredible to have a perhaps 9-year run (Curry, Klay, Dray) followed up by another 5-year run. Very rare, but hopefully it’s possible?
It’s staggering how badly everyone wants GSW to break up its core that they specifically built and rebuilt with the GOAL of having these 8 or 9 guys all locked down, that has been together for only ONE season so far. ONE and yall have already lost your minds…rent free…
Yall…unless you are a Warriors fan, its going to be a long decade for you as an NBA fan, just accept it…
Draymond said doesn’t expect to sign a new contract until the end of season, and you take that to mean that everybody wants to break up the Warriors. You need to go to drug rehab. That stuff you are smoking is really messing with your brain. You are twisting what Draymond said into some really weird stuff.
There are no long decades as an NBA fan if you actually like the game.
Green will have his warriors number retired one day but they’re run too well to give him the max and be paying a 36 year old Green that type of money and letting guys in their prime walk
Draymond Green is the heart and soul of the Golden State Warriors. He’s a top 5 defensive player and a top 5 versatile player in the NBA. He’s not a easy player to replace. He’s a hall of fame player. His number definitely will get retired by the GSW. I don’t think they should let him get away. I just don’t they should do more than 3 years $100 million.
Agree totally, and I think 3 years $100 million is very close to what he’ll be offered. But I think he feels he deserves more given that he’s been (slightly) under paid for his value, and there will be a market for his talents in ’23.
If you don’t sign Green you might as well trade Curry too, because it’s going to be difficult to keep Curry, Poole, Klay, Green and Wiggins
You can manage Curry, Klay, Green with the young players, but you’ll likely have to move on from both Wiggins and Poole.
Or, trade Curry and Klay for a haul of players and picks,
and stick with Poole, Moody, Wiggins, Draymond, Kuminga and Wiseman, which could be a good young team that takes the Warriors into the next decade.
That’s the way I see it anyways, if I’m the Warriors brass it’s a tough decision, do you cut short a dynasty that could potentially win another two or three championships, or cut costs and load up a war chest of draft picks and roll the dice on a young team that could put together a championship run of their own.
Curry is 34, has four to six good seasons in him, and possibly another five on top of that if he wanted to put up some career numbers, baring injury, but he will have to take a big cut when his deal is up, is he willing to do that? LBJ wasnt, doubt Steph will either, do you want to sign a 38yr old pg on a 5 year 250M deal? He is under contract for four more seasons and is set to make nearly 60M in the ’25/26 season.
Klay Thompson is 32, has two seasons left, and can probably play a other four to six good seasons, you’ll have to sign a 34 year old Thompson to a 4 year 160M deal.
Draymond is 33 in the last year of his deal, he is looking at 4 years, 140M, has four or five good seasons in him.
Wiggins is only 27, in the last year of his deal, and is looking at 4 years, 140M, has four to six good seasons in him too.
Those four deals out you well into the luxury tax no matter how you slice it, and that doesn’t include any of the young players like Poole who will need to be extended.
So it seems impossible, if I’m the Warriors I’m trading Klay to the Lakers for those first round picks and Austin Reeves, and I’m trading Curry to any team that will send a basket of unprotected picks and players similar to the Mitchell deal.
And the W’s would be left with Poole, Moody, Wiggins, Draymond and Wiseman, with Kuminga and Baldwin Jr. off the bench, they’d have an arsenal of picks, probably add a couple nice rotation players in those trades.
LOL Warriors would never trade Curry unless he demanded it. Would be a PR suicide for the team.
@ bwmiller
Your “trade Curry” campaign is funny/ridiculous.
“Do I believe that I’m one of the best players in the league, in the way I help my team be great and win games, it’s efficient and effective? Yeah, I do. I’m mature enough, I’m old enough to understand that” said the 2018-19 and 2019-20 MVP. “Do I believe I’m the best player in the world? No. I think the best player in the world is the person that’s the last one standing. The person that takes his team to the finish line and helps them win games and become champions … So that’s how I view it. I believe the best player in the world is Steph Curry.”
-Giannis, at media day
Great, I’d send him to the Magic for Franz and Mo, Jalen Suggs, and five unprotected firsts.
And then I’d send Klay to the Lakers for two unprotected firsts and Austin Reeves, probably get more for Klay elsewhere but I’d do Klay a solid and send him to LA.
The Warriors would still potentially be the best team in the West and would have added seven unprotected first round picks.
Poole
Suggs
Moody
Kuminga
Reeves
Franz Wagner
Baldwin Jr.
Wiggins
Draymond
Wiseman
Mo Wagner
Looney
Thanks for proving that you don’t understand what it means when a player has led a dynasty and is defending a title.
It’s a fact that GSW is Steph’s team, and they will never trade him, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE STUPID!
FYI, there’s a lot of 1st rd picks that don’t become star players. You act like GSW doesn’t already have these 3 lottery picks that will be in the rotation:
Wiseman
Kuminga
Moody
And 1 more from late in the round, rookie Patrick Baldwin Jr. They aren’t rebuilding and don’t need more picks.
That’s the choice in some way, unless Poole, Wiggins and Draymond take less than market.
Similar to Durant this off-season, if the Warriors even considered trading him (which they won’t) it would be impossible to get his value back without completely destroying his destination team – for the present and the future.
Why would Curry agree to that? He has nothing left to prove.
The only NBA-level trophy he doesn’t have is a Olympic gold medal, and that is due to opting out, not losing.
Green wants the biggest max contract he can get. I would not doubt Lakers will throw a huge contract to him because he and LeBron are friends. Pistons are the other team that could sign him. With his age and injury history a team will probably regret signing him to a max contract.
@ARC2
He’s the ultimate GSW system player, so I’m not sure he’s going to get big offers from either of those teams.
Obviously GSW is unlikely to come close to what he’s trying to get.
@NBA What do you mean “GSW system player”? The Warriors are very different team from what they were 3 years ago. They have a commitment to going big.
@ Giants:
You aren’t aware that GSW has a system?
When you say they have a “commitment to going big”, do you mean drafting Wiseman?
It’s not like they didn’t already have Bogut, Pachulia, McGee, Ezeli, Speights, Damian Jones, Cousins, Cauley Stein, Jerebko, and KD throughout the dynasty years…
The 2nd tallest player on this season’s roster is rookie Williams at 6’10”, and I doubt he makes the reg season roster.
Not likely to go big. Dray does fit their system very well. He’s very active, and his defense-rebounding-and-point forward role gives the Dubs the best 4 or 5 seconds of a possession, and he does that more than a half dozen times per game. A big maybe, but possibly one of the younger players can develop that rare skill set.
The only reason I want to trade away Draymond is you don’t let him walk for nothing
That would make sense normally. In fact they’ve done exactly that, to keep the max salary slot available. But it won’t happen this time. They’ll need to extend these young guys eventually and with the raises they have coming there’s no room for 35-year-old Draymond Green big money. He’s gone after this season.
Five rings is huge and that as an auxiliary guy. He wants to show he can do it elsewhere and not ride Steph Curry’s coattails his entire career. Admirable quest and desire.
Sorry I should say five rings WOULD be huge. Not IS huge. Loooong way to go before there’s one for the thumb.
@ Gary
It will be interesting to see what Green’s market value actually is. A lot will depend on his upcoming season.
Green is way way toi smart to leave Warriors. As for his max demand, he’s just posturing. What he really want is max yrs. Curry doesnt want Green to leave. 4 yrs for $100m(backloaded) next offseason. Green stays.
You could be right, but I think his ego is big enough to find out if another team will make a better offer.
Yes but Michol, remember When Shaq got older and he had the three rings from the Lakers, they constantly told him he only has those Rings because of Kobe Bryant. So what did Shaq do?
He said, okay I’ll help a couple other guys get rings. He went to Miami and got Dwyane Wade a ring. He went to Cleveland for the same reason, to try to help LeBron get a ring but they fell short. Then he went to Boston..
I think Green may fall under the same umbrella with the talk that he only has his four or five rings because of Curry. Green will want to be his own man and say, Rather, it’s I who helped Curry get his rings, and go somewhere else and try to do it again. Stand on his own a little more. Like Shaq, out of the shadow of rings only with Kobe. Hope that makes sense.
Trade klay for Westbrook
Klay will age like fine wine. That jumper doesn’t go away as you get older in fact it gets better. He doesn’t rely on Raw athleticism like the other fellow you’re mentioning. That goes away quick. Klay will sit on the wing burying threes till he’s 40 lol. And by the way, that may not be with the Warriors at age 40 just fyi.