JULY 6: The Cavaliers have officially signed Jerome, the team announced today in a press release.
Golden State withdrew its qualifying offer to Jerome, making him an unrestricted free agent and clearing the way for him to sign with Cleveland.
JULY 1: The Cavaliers will sign shooting guard Ty Jerome to a two-year, $5MM contract, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Jerome received a minimum-salary qualifying offer from the Warriors this week, making him a restricted free agent. However, Cleveland was able to put together a package that Golden State doesn’t plan to match, according to Anthony Slater of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Jerome spent one season with Golden State after signing a two-way contract last October. He appeared in 45 games, averaging 6.9 points, 1.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 18.1 minutes per night.
The former Virginia standout was the 24th overall selection in the 2019 draft and started his career with the Suns. He also played two seasons with the Thunder, but spent much of his time in the G League.
There were rumors late in the season that the Warriors might convert Jerome to a standard deal so he could be eligible for the playoffs, but Golden State opted to make that move with Anthony Lamb instead.
Jerome will add depth to a Cleveland backcourt that features Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, Ricky Rubio and the newly acquired Max Strus.
Ty Jerome is a solid pickup for a third Point Guard because you need it with Ricky Rubio injury history.
Yes, but if Rubio is no better than last year, are you good with Jerome as number 2 and Rubio 3rd on the depth chart?
Jerome is not an NBA player though, he cant play any defense. He will hurt the team unless he’s out there with the 4 best defenders.
What ??
SO WHO ARE THE WARRIORS GOING TO GET ???
Dumpster diving starting tomorrow? Who’s left? This is insane. Yes only minimums but nobody wants minimums with the Warriors in day one or two? COME ON !!!!
Are YOU insane? Ty Jerome the traffic cone is an absolutely useless not-NBA-level player that the Warriors will never win a title with by giving him any kind of minutes. There isn’t a worse defender in the league.
Good offense off the bench but his defense is below sub par. Glad to see him get a 2 year deal he is that back up 3rd string PG. He does have tools to make baskets.
He’s not a title winning piece. He was infuriating to watch last year, as my comments in these threads prove.
Still weird how Gary thinks that between Curry, Thompson, Moody, Payton, Quinones and Podziemski they cant put up 96 guard minutes between them every game.
You whined about Jerome all season and now you want to rely on Lester Quinones and Brandon Podziemski off the bench after Moody? I thought you wanted the Warriors win basketball games.
He was OK as a 2 way player. That is the problem of Meyers last year carrying Iggy and wasting a roster space on him. warriors did not want to waste cap space on him why they let him become unrestricted FA.
Steph, Klay, Paul, GP II, Moody, Brandin Podziemski seems like a pretty good core set of guards. No dumpster diving required.
I hope GSW gets Christian Wood and Blake Griffin.
Guards look like a core set to most, but what about up front? We haven’t signed anybody is my point.
Besides are we counting on that rookie to be a major contributor? He would plug into Donte Divincenzo’s spot. Plus I’m not sure Moody is ready to be Klay’s backup. Payton plays small forward except on defense. Back court not so set as everyone thinks.
Did Eric Gordon sign? He’d be a valuable veteran to slot in at shooting guard.
Moody is going to be a star in this league as long as he gets regular minutes, same with Kuminga. They both have “it”. You are freaking out over losing the worst player Ive ever seen on defense, one of the biggest reasons why we didnt win it all this year was because this clown got major minutes all year long.
I’m freaking out that we haven’t signed anybody not the fact we’re losing Ty Jerome. That just instigated it. Who have we signed? Dumpster diving tomorrow? Next week?
Warriors still need to get a Center. They just missed out on Jock Landale and Moritz Wagner. Both would have fit well with the Warriors.
His numbers appear to be those of a very good shooter, and I like his assist-to-turnover ratio. Any word on his defense?
The actual worst in the league. Non existent. He literally stood at halfcourt and made his teammates play 4 on 5 a lot of times, its why GSW had such a bad road record this year, too many Jerome minutes.
He can get you a bucket just fine, but the D isnt worth it.
Dude you overreact to everything. To suggest that a team with 3 possible HOF and 4 rings to their credit sucked on the road because of lil itty bitty Ty Jerome is a weak joke. I’m not going to claim to remember him playing by cmon. He’s a backup. They could’ve waived him if he was THAT much of a detractor from winning games.
Dude, he WASNT a backup, he was in the regular closing rotations, thats the whole reason why Im so mad, Kerr was obsessed with playing everyone under 6’6″ as much as possible. Ty Jerome got SO MUCH playing time over Moses Moody and Kuminga, it was infuriating.
After watching GSW all season, Jerome was pretty decent on offense as a backup, but a pretty big liability on defense. He consistently got beat on the drive. Other teams exploited that weakness.
Another good signing by CLE. Jerome was drafted to be Rubio’s backup in PHX, before CP3 became available and both were vanquished in the trade. High IQ player. Good size and skill.
YES YES YES BYE LOSER GO LEARN TO PLAY 1% NBA DEFENSE
Please some team steal Lamb way from Kerr too.
Christian Wood is out there and might take a 1 year rebound deal – everyone on GSW always wanted him internally…
I’m liking the depth but would liked them to add a forward that can shoot and has some veteran leadership like Jeff Green. Too late. Not sure what’s available via trade
I don’t think a trade is available for the Warriors. It’s pretty much veterans at minimums at this point. So far zero but there’s hope.