JULY 8: The Warriors have officially re-signed Green, the team announced today in a press release (Twitter link).
JUNE 30: Draymond Green is re-signing with the only club he’s ever known, agreeing to a four-year, $100MM contract to remain with the Warriors, sources tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
The final year of the deal will be a player option, Charania adds. Marc Stein reported shortly before free agency officially opened that $100MM to return to Golden State was looking likely for Green. He previously declined his $27,586,224 player option for 2023/24 in order to sign a long-term deal, which has come to fruition.
Green, 33, is one of the most accomplished players of the 2023 free agent class. The 2016/17 Defensive Player of the Year, Green is an eight-time All-Defensive Team member, four-time All-Star, and two-time All-NBA member.
More importantly, he’s a four-time NBA champion, spearheading Golden State’s defense during the team’s dynastic run over the better part of the past decade. You can easily make the case that he’s been the most impactful defensive player of his generation.
The forward/center is also an accomplished play-maker, holding a career average of 5.6 APG. In 73 games last season, he averaged 8.5 PPG, 7.2 RPG, 6.8 APG, 1.0 SPG and 0.8 BPG on .527/.305/.713 shooting in 31.5 MPG.
According to Anthony Slater of The Athletic (Twitter link), the Warriors will save $43MM toward the luxury tax in ’23/24 as part of the deal. Green will earn $22.3MM next season, with annual raises in subsequent seasons.
Wow
^ you all know who called this first ^
“you all know who called this first”
Oh yes. Because NOBODY saw this coming…
go back and look at all the arguers I had in my face that dray was gone and it was over and gsw had to tear down now and understand I deserve to post that
25mil per year for a declining is foolish. Nothing to brag about.
And yet Desman Bane got max money and had done nothing. DEDE GAVE THEM A DISCOUNT!
Touché to Draymond and his agent for a contract that GSW fans will regret before it reaches the halfway point.
You clearly don’t know any warriors fans
Not one Warriors fan will ever regret signing Draymond Green, what an absolutely pathetic disguise for being butthurt.
boooooo you don’t know anything about warriors fans
Has to be a fourth year team option and I’m sure there’s some incentives involved to make 25 million per year.
Player option…
Yikes.
Destroyed their team chemistry and gets 100 million lmao. Kerr is so pathetic
Won 4 rings with a franchise that was in the trenches. Thanks Kerr!
Kerr isn’t the GM.
Kerr blew up the 2 timelines be refusing to play Wiseman and Poole with good players.
Green didn’t destroy any chemistry, Poole did, which is why he found himself traded to a garbage organization.
Great move for the warriors. Another 3-4 years of contention!
How exactly did the victim ruin chemistry more than the assaulter?
Talked too much. He was always bragging about himself in the locker room according to reports. Had a big ego. Now Poole has what he wanted a team to be the man.
and now Poole (who had a better NBA Finals performance than many superstars ever had + ring, which Harden, Westbrook and Paul don’t have) will avg 30 PPG next year while not making the playoffs, proving everyone both wrong and right.
“He had a big ego” lmao how do you think these guys make it to the NBA? Out of touch, much…
I bet if you took an anonymous poll of the locker room most of the players wanted to punch Poole themselves at one point or another. Then again, I’d bet the same could be said about Draymond.
Poole chirped but Draymond actually threw a punch.
they already dumped the guy who ruined the chemistry if you were paying attention
Turns out. Jordan Poole might have been more friction starting than was led on. Now he’s on Washington. He can jack up 3s all day one legged from 30. No one cares
Swing and a miss lol. Aging player who can’t score and whines like a b. Easy L for Golden State.
Your take is astoundingly bad. Green doesn’t score because of the warriors system. He does all the things star offensive scorers don’t want to do, and is the glue that holds golden state together. Green practically never whines, he merely states the obvious.
Please. The clown cries more than my one year old. K bye.
Lebron cries more than Green.
You cry about GSW and let them live rent free in your head so hard you actually made yourself believe that GSW signing Draymond is a bad idea. Steph Curry exists btw lil guy!! lol
Since when were scoring or not complaining critical to Draymond’s value? Yes, he’s on the decline but as a high IQ, defense-oriented playmaker he’s going to age more slowly than other player archetypes.
Draymond Green scored 30 points in an NBA Finals game, you are just lying and don’t know what a champion actually looks like.
Draymond Green is better than Dennis Rodman at every single aspect of the game and has the rings to prove it.
Except Rodman was the best rebounder in league history
Arguable, even so in all aspects of the game combined, Draymond absolutely cooks Worm, that was more my argument.
I always agree with you but this is a bad take. Rodman destroys Green on everything except the 3pt shot
Moses Malone would like a word with you. Yes, they played head to head. No, Rodman not once out rebounded Malone while Moses was also scoring 25 a game. In short F outta here with that junk take.
Rodman has the rings to prove it*
guess they’ve been swinging and missing for like 10 years. oh, and 4 rings
Draymond Green got the bag he deserves!!!! I thought it would be 3 years but it’s actually 4 years $100 million. That’s a great deal!!!
He deserves to be in jail
Your tired take is easily disproven with the ample video evidence that clearly shows he meticulously avoided serious injury to himself and sabonis. Not to mention Poole is a punk ass kid who needed to be put in his place.
“Not to mention Poole is a punk ass kid who needed to be put in his place.”
I’m not saying Green deserves to be in jail but “he needed to be put in his place” is a super weak excuse for committing battery (a crime in pretty much every other setting). Green is an adult, and so is everyone else on the Warriors. Solve your issues with talk instead of behaving like a child and sucker-punching someone.
Nah. Your Mets should be in jail for stealing money.
LFGMets should go to prison for open racism. If Draymond was white he’d be your favorite player of all-time.
Bobby Bonilla annual “pay day” tomorrow! How has his on-base percentage been recently?
How many championships have your Mets won recently? Talk about blooming it no matter how big the salary. Hmm so is this the take you have on all athletes or POC? Just came to troll sh bigot. He got paid and laid and you just sad man
Easily the easiest decision in FA. His value is higher with GS then anywhere else
Draymond Green quote “Yo mane the players lose again”
33 years old getting paid 25 million a year till hes 37 while coming off his worst year where he averaged a triple single. Wow, I guess the players really do lose again
If Draymond was a foot shorter, the only thing that would come out of his mouth is “May I take your order”. Destroyed a teams chemistry and tried to kill Sabonis, gets rewarded with 100 million dollars and no suspension
Classic post. Bravo.
Sad take is sad. You clearly cannot comprehend reality, and know nothing of biology. “Tried to kill sabonis”…. Why do you watch the NBA? you know nothing. Keep posting this slanderous nonsense. I’m sure you were a Mets fan before cohen bought the team…. (Massive eye roll)
Front runner sport center fan…
Sabonis tried to injure Draymond and Draymond knocked the wind out of sabonis in a not dangerous maneuver.
Watch the tape again, the moment the replay review is done sabonis hops up like nothing happened. You’re a joke.
He keeps lying about the flopper Saboins flopping so he can call him the racist word “thug”, but literally only racists who hate Dray for being Black think this. We see this type all the time when we win.
Crybaby post
Triple singles — not a good representation here – lets see what that really means
8.5 pts is better than he has had since 2017-18
6.8 Assists higher than his career average but slightly lower than last two seasons
7.2 Rebounds higher than career average
the only spot that is the concern is the drop in steals and blocks for his main defensive skills.
The team chemistry – The players around him want him on team Kerr knows this.
Tried to Kill Sabonis…. your kidding right? Sarongs tried for an Oscar and a leg bar. Get off my lawn kid.
This whole thread is like what Kobe called Dwight. Soft.
And you really know soft. As in flaccid 24×7.
Way to contribute to the conversation by attempting, and failing, to insult someone who points out the obvious…
Lol. Enjoy the participation trophies cupcake
Your contribution is what, Mr Menace?
It has nothing to do with softness, which is such a weird thing to even bring up in the context of this thread. Do you filter everything by how hard or soft something is?
Yup. You got me figured out. What a hard observation! Well done
Too many kids on this board who grew up watching the warriors destroy their team.
Uhhh. Ok.
More like too many bandwagon warrior fans like yourself. Bet you weren’t a fan when Marc Jackson was the coach and had to intentionally foul the last 5 minutes of the game or the rockets would’ve set the 3pt record against them
2015 was 8 years ago, your “bandwagon” bad faith argument (you yourself are not a GSW fan), eliminates anyone getting into the NBA from becoming a GSW fan, while they keep winning titles. But GSW have always had a massive fanbase, even when they were bad.
Overall its a sickening mindset, nothing but loser talk. You need to look in the mirror.
Every sport has bandwagon fans. To think the warriors don’t is a little short sighted
But your argument fully eradicates all of them in the “all or nothing” framing you made, in your example, you arent ever going to respect anyone who became a fan after 2015 even if they were like, a child, because you will always move the “bandwagon” goalposts.
The haters who are lying about their intentions whenever GSW comes up are far worse people than bandwagoners are. Steph Curry is the best player in the world, he’s going to have fans that dont even care about NBA much. They still know more about winning a title than a diehard who has never sniffed the Finals even, that’s facts and what makes so many people so mad. Nuggets fans will understand this once we get a few years in from theirs and the see and feel clearly what needs to be done to win.
GSW has always had huge crowds (who all got to leave before the 4th Q) for decades. Just because team was bad, the fan base never was.
You see it…
3 team trade. Paul and Kuminga to Detroit. Atl. Capela and Bogdon to GS. Wiseman and Bagley or Alec Burks to ATL.
Stop trying to trade Kuminga, he’s too valuable and all your deals do not get maximum value for him.
Think more game changing superstars, like Kawhi, if you are putting Kuminga on a fake trade table that GSW themselves have not put him on.
Celtics. Brodgon, Kornet and Houser for GS. Chris Paul
Okay I’ll stop throwing him in trade ideas but Paul needs to be traded for a center
I mean sure, but he won’t. Kerr wants a 15 man roster of all players under 6’6″
Should have been 4 years $85-90 million.
Came here to see an unhinged StephRetires. Wasn’t disappointed.
Paypal $129.00 to stephcurryretireswith8rings if I am doling out free entertainment to you then, you wont – coward.
You are so adorable.
This is a steal for GS. Good for Draymond. 1 of my all time favorite players. This is what winners do. Takes less again to stay together. They got him for the same price as Kuzma rofl.
All facts! Can’t be anything but happy for 4 more years of Dray and more importantly title-contending!!
Viva la dubs!!!
Boston trades Brogdon, Kornet and picks for Chris Paul
I have been saying 4 yrs for $100m forever. 3 yrs just wont work for Warriors since Draymond wanted $100m no matter what. He deserves the money because he did in fact sign team friendly contract 3 yrs ago, and he opted out. So, he’s really getting 3 additional yrs. Like him or not, this was for fact another discount. And more importantly, his contract next season is only $22m giving team some flexibility.
Please Victor shut him down …
Now sign one of Bol Bol, Hassan Whiteside, Jahil Okafor, Dwight Howard or Bogut