As Marc Stein writes in his latest Substack article for The Stein Line, the Warriors‘ training camp will tip off a week from today (September 30), while the deadline for Jonathan Kuminga to accept his qualifying offer arrives one day later (October 1).
That means that if Kuminga’s decision goes down to the wire, the Warriors may open camp with a significant portion of their eventual roster missing. The club is currently carrying just nine players on standard contracts and has opted not to fill the five remaining non-Kuminga roster spots until the restricted free agent’s situation is resolved in order to maximize cap flexibility.
According to Stein, the expectation around the NBA is that the five players who eventually fill the remaining third of Golden State’s roster will be Al Horford, De’Anthony Melton, Gary Payton II, Seth Curry, and second-round pick Will Richard. In that scenario, Horford would be signed using the taxpayer mid-level exception, while the others would receive minimum-salary deals.
As for what happens with Kuminga, Stein says he’d be surprised if the 22-year-old sacrifices $40MM-ish in guaranteed money by signing his one-year, $8MM qualifying offer instead of accepting a reported three-year, $75MM proposal that includes a third-year team option, though he cautions that’s just informed speculation rather than sourced information.
Here’s more from Stein:
- The belief around the NBA since June’s draft is that the Wizards – who held the No. 6 overall pick – were Ace Bailey‘s preferred landing spot, says Stein. Utah ultimately drafted Bailey at No. 5. Given their apparent interest in Bailey, it raised some eyebrows when the Wizards signed Sharife Cooper to a two-way contract last week, according to Stein. Cooper, who had been out of the NBA since the 2021/22 season, is the son of Bailey’s manager Omar Cooper.
- Although six-year NBA veteran Talen Horton-Tucker officially signed a two-year contract with the Turkish team Fenerbahce over the weekend, the expectation is that he’ll try to return to the NBA next summer if his first year in Europe goes well, per Stein. That suggests Horton-Tucker’s deal includes an opt-out clause after year one.
- After reporting on Saturday that Mavericks star Anthony Davis had taken part in some five-on-five scrimmages for the first time since undergoing eye surgery in July, Stein cautions that Dallas will likely take a cautious approach with the big man once camp officially gets underway, since “pickup game intensity cannot compare to training camp intensity.”
One would hope that Kuminga signs something by Sunday. Delaying to 10/1 would be a mistake, for obvious reasons.
He’s making this all about him. I’m sure Joe is seething as one player who’s really not that great, is holding up the entire organization.
Gary, that’s what you said a few months ago, along with Lacob would never improve his offer :—)
At the end of the day, everyone is about the dollar.
Yeah, so? Has anything changed? What’s your point?
Nothing has changed. Lacob continues to make decisions on a purely economic basis. He wasn’t “seething” back then, and emotion didn’t prevent him from substantially raising the offer.
He’s not seething now either. This is a typical negotiation. What’s not typical is all the media attention. “Contract negotiation is not a spectator sport.”
But this is a special situation.
I can not remember any team in any sport coming into training camp without a full bus load of guys from the nearby hotel coming in and competing for spots.
The Warriors not only are lacking that, but they don’t even have a roster of regular guys who are expected to make the team.
They have seven men under contract and it’s two weeks to camp !!
This is not a media induced reaction.
This is one guy holding up an entire franchise because of his misplaced ego.., as well as the stubbornness of both parties here.., the player and the team.
Lol the team could easily drop the team option in his third year and he would be signed. This 100% falls on the terrible warriors FO for how they treat their players
How do you drop a team option? You can only exercise an option. How have the Warriors treated players horribly?
@Giants74
They’re saying drop the team option from the contract offer. If the Warriors make an offer without a team option (either 3 guaranteed or 2+1 with a player option like JK prefers), it will likely be for ~ the $20 mil/yr that was in the S&T offers (despite 1 less year).
Ok…It just sounds rather redundant. The structure of the contract has talked about, ad nauseum. Option years generally come at the end of contract. So, it would be just as clear to say, “drop the team option”. I think I follow this stuff to much.
Online features, if they do that, he becomes untradable like Malik monk.
IMO $20 mil/yr for Kuminga is definitely tradable.
Not on 2-year with PO. That’s a 1-year rental, and a developing 22-year-old is not a guy you sign on a 1-year rental. Kuminga wants all of the flexibility and no commitment. After the way he and his agent have negotiated this year, such a contract will NOT be attractive to a team that would want a player like him.
I was referring to 3 years with either all 3 guaranteed or a 2+1 with a player option.
Those would work, at the right price, but I don’t think the Dubs want the prospect of being committed to Kuminga for three years, or even two, so the contract has to be tradeable.
Again, JK at a committed $20 mil/year is tradable.
> After the way he and his agent have negotiated
> this year, such a contract will NOT be attractive
> to a team that would want a player like him.
That kind of thinking applies in larger industries, but not in pro sports. The data about difficult or unlikable agents shows the opposite:
1) teams and fans forget all the bad stuff almost instantly after a contract is signed
2) teams assign all blame to the agent, not the player
3) using an agent with a reputation for holding out or unreasonableness doesn’t discourage teams from pursuing a player.
NBAOK $25 million is the number.
@GaryRSW
Not if there’s a 2+1 with the player option or 3 years guaranteed, they won’t keep the $25 mil overpay in that case.
Gary,
The Warriors are entirely responsible for that situation, not Kuminga. They’re acting as a completely self-interested party, as expected.
Kuminga is also acting like a completely self-interested party also, as expected.
It’s playing out exactly the way all negotiations do.
If Kerr had not overtly expressed to Kuminga immediately before the negotiation that he’d be better off elsewhere, that might have generated the good-will necessary to change Kuminga’s self-interested calculus. But that’s water under the bridge.
How is that a slap in the face? Kerr just acknowledged what Kuminga’s agent has publicly stated. Kuminga wants to be the “focal point” of the offense. That is the conflict.
@ GaryRSW
Well said. JK is holding the team hostage, and it’s reasonable until the 28th, but as soon as it interferes with media day/training camp, he’s gone too far.
Agreed.
JK has every right to negotiate, but the evidence shows that there is no “buyer” for him at the price he is demanding. It’s his unwillingness to accept what the market will offer that is annoying.
> but the evidence shows that there is no “buyer”
> for him at the price he is demanding.
Misleading. The point is that there is no buyer NOW because of unusual market conditions. That’s why he (and Cam Thomas) are willing to wait for later.
> as soon as it interferes with media day/training
> camp, he’s gone too far
Seriously? That statement shows a lack of understanding of the rules of engagement in contract negotiations in any sport. Nobody, player or team, feels the least bit compelled to consider the interests of the other when there is much $ at stake.
Do you follow the NFL or NHL or MLB? We’ve got at least 6 more days to go, and 8 shouldn’t surprise us.
ari, you MUST consider the interest of the other in negotiation.
Or else you’re stuck in your corner by yourself with no match and no hope for a match because you’re not even looking over there.
That’s what the word negotiation means doesn’t it?
It’s not an isolated demand like some kind of hostage situation or pirate.
It’s “negotiation” of course you’re looking at what the other side wants….
Gary, the negotiation of sports contracts is a classic zero-sum game. There is a fixed-size pie : the amount of money the team has to spend over coming years. The team wants to give the least amount possible and the player wants to take the most possible. GSW’s loss is Kuminga’s gain, and vice versa.
There is another quantity than money being distributed in win-lose fashion: control over the trade-ability of Kuminga’s contract. The more control Kuminga has, the less money he’ll make. The more control GSW has, the more they must pay Kuminga.
Other than length of contract, that about covers it.
Warriors will blink before the Media Day
It’s completely unfair to blame Kuminga for holding up the entire organization. It’s the FO choice to wait to sign those 4 players. There is a technical reason for it but Kuminga is NOT stopping Warriors to sign these 4 players now. In fact, they all have verbal agreement so why should Kuminga care.
@michol said:
> It’s completely unfair to blame Kuminga for holding
> up the entire organization.
Yes, unfair, but also highly surprising that smart people can allow their emotional bias to prevail so easily. The fact is neither part owes the other a damn thing. This is free agency. Both parties are thoroughly and openly 100% self-interested. Whatever other interests a party might have are irrelevant.
But many here believe only the Warriors have the right to be self-interested, while the player does not.
Every Kuminga thread is filled with criticisms that presuppose Kuminga has a moral obligation to help the Warriors optimize their roster and payroll. He’s “ungrateful”, “selfish”, “a nepo-baby”, “ignoring the other free agents who want to sign”, etc.
If other posters were to argue that GSW owes Kuminga some special consideration, they’d be ridiculed.
I mean Giddey just signed last week who was holding out for $30m and he had no otjer team offers and he’s celebrated. Thomas opted for QO foregoing $9m for next yr. Grimes hasnt signed. So it’s not like Kuminga is the only one. Besides, why would deadline be Oct 1st? Kuminga has every right to look out for his future and if anything, he would be the one who wants to get this over with as soon as possible.
@Michol
Your take is completely wrong, due to the apron restrictions that would happen. That’s not a technical issue, it’s a CBA rules/cap issue.
If GS could just “sign these 4 players now” it would have been done over a month ago.
They can seriously sign these guys before Kuminga. Holford is holding out to see if he can get a bit more depending on what kind of contract Kuminga signs , but Warrios are being overly cautious that another team could scoop Kuminga and outright sign Kuminga to a contract that they will have hard time to match.
The warriors are probably calling every NBA team tyo trade Kuminga for a deal that makes sense for them. Kuminga saying to the media he wants out did not help his chances at a better contract.
This is about 2 self-interested parties.
The next move is the Warriors’, not Kuminga’s. Kuminga told them he’s going to wait until the deadline, Oct 1, to sign the QO.
It’s the Warriors’ choice to do nothing or improve the offer.
Only thing I would do if I was teh warriors is make the third year a player/team option. making it a player option means he will be a free agent after 2 years unless he is injured so its an insurance policy for him. A team option means if he plays well its a insurance policy for the team to keep him for 1 extra year. If they both have a option for third year there is no advantage for either team or player.
That would hurt his trade value next off-season, and the W’s main goal here is to trade him as an expiring next year, so they can clear the decks for a run at Giannis (or potentially a different superstar). And Kuminga knows that obviously and wants no part of it.
His trade value is already very low. Look at how nobody offered the warriors anything for him. Giannis to teh warriors is just a pipe dream because he will finish his career with the bucks.
> the W’s main goal here is to trade him as an expiring
> next year
That would be trading him for the least value possible.
GSW want a team option for his third year because that increases his value as an asset, whether it be to trade him or retain his services.
Yes ari, exactly and I’ve been saying that for three months too.
The biggest reason why it’s true is because you trade an expiring contract for several reasons and one of them is that a playoff team is looking for a mercenary.
Either a scorer or a rebounder or a defender or something that can be guaranteed and they can plug that person into the rotation that playoff time for these special needs.
The player is not quite in tune with how the team operates just yet and they haven’t found fluidity on the floor in the short time, but they can get you a bucket or they can get you a rebound or they can lock down the other teams best scorer etc.
A mercenary, gun for higher, etc.
Jonathan Kuminga provides none of that. He provides potential so the expiring contract would fall under the category of simply an expiring deal salary wise.
Nothing more.
That brings down his value as a player quite a bit
But there’s two sides of this coin and both are bad.
That’s why we sit here today in this unenviable position for both the player and team.
The problem with signing JK to a three year deal at 25 million per is that he’s not worth that money.
You’ll be stuck with it like the kings are stuck with Malik Monk. An untradable contract that you’ll be paying for three years without the expected or anticipated return.
Kuminga trade value will go up once a few injuries happen on teams in the playoff push. Asking for a 1st round pick is not being too expensive because it will probably be top 10 protective for the trading team. We already seen 1 team have a player go down that was a top 4 team in the western division. If Kings get off to a horrible start I would not doubt they trade some of their assets to make a run at Kuminga.
@arc89
How can a contract simultaneously have both a player option AND a team option? If both parties tried to exercise the options in the 3rd year, how would it be resolved in that scenario?
I have seen in the past mutual options on contracts where both sides can terminate the agreement.
: A mutual option means both the player and the team must agree to exercise it for the option year to become a part of the contract.
So what happens if both the player and the team don’t agree, does the option year disappear completely?
Both sides must agree of the option year is voided.
I don’t think either side would agree to a 2+1 where the 3red year is likely to be “voided”.
In that case, is JK a UFA? Which essentially makes the contract 1+1?
Once a contract is signed, any option belongs exclusively to either the player (PO) or the team (TO/CO).
If JK has a PO, he can choose not to exercise it, in which case he is a UFA. His current team MAY have the ability to offer him more than another team, I’m not sure how the CBA treats this, but they do NOT have the right to match any other offer, unlike the case with a RFA. JK can choose to go somewhere else for the same or even less money if he chooses.
If it’s a TO/CO, then the team has 100% control. If they exercise it, the player has to stay for the agreed salary, and the team is free to trade him if and as they wish. Exercising the TO does not count as a “signing,” so there are no restrictions on making a trade.
arc89 was talking about a “mutual option”, which I’ve never heard of, and can’t imagine it even exists.
Mutual options happen frequently in baseball. They usually don’t get picked up.
I’m curious, what happens to the player in that case – the contract becomes 1 year shorter and the player is a UFA?
they become a UFA
You guys are right it really doesn’t make much sense but as Giants 74 says, you see them in baseball here and there.
They usually don’t get picked up because one or the other opt out. They don’t make sense to me. I don’t know why they’re used.
Player options make no sense for the team because if that player has an allstar year they leave. On the other hand if a player is injured or a down year the team doesn’t pick up the option. So its more of a insurance policy.
Wow. Al hasn’t posted yet to complain how the Warriors are doing whatever !@##$$%
I don’t get how this helping Kuminga. So what if he takes the QO. How many teams are going to be willing to deal with him in contract talks? He says he wants to be the “central focus” of the team. Are they going to be willing to deal with him if doesn’t feel like he is getting his way? He really hasn’t proven he can be a reliable player. He needs to get better first.
How long before Al starts crying.
He wants the no trade clause that comes with the QO, so he can pick his team. Everyone knows what’s going on: The W’s want to trade him to whomever will take him in a year. He doesn’t want to spend his prime on the Wizards or Hornets or wherever. He’s not doing any damage to his value.
Just because he can pick his team, it doesn’t mean they will want him. There are some who think his demands are a bit delusional. Can he be a team player.
He wanted to be traded to the Kings and Suns for less money, because they said he’d start.
What’s the difference if he starts on the Wizards or Hornets?
@aristotle
He didn’t say he was going to sign the QO, it’s a continuing attempt to leverage another concession.
Turner: “Normally he’s, you know, going to be in Miami and then he goes back to the Bay or whatever team he was going to be. and we kind of just threw this together last minute and said, “Hey, let’s give him, you know, a good a good infrastructure in Cleveland.
So, he’s got everything he needs here and he’s working and, you know, we’re doing the best we can to simulate games and keep him, you know, ready to go and in shape if even if that means, you know, he he doesn’t report till October 1st, you know, we we want him to be ready and and in great shape.”
IMO this negotiating through Youtube with the wait until 10/1 threat is likely to anger the GS FO and make it harder to get what JK wants (a player option).
Kuminga maybe able to simulate games outside of camp. But, he can’t simulate playing with Butler or Draymond. Lack of chemistry kept him on the bench at the end of last season. He could have started building that chemistry if he had signed earlier. Without out that chemistry, how can he show what he can do?
> He didn’t say he was going to sign the QO, it’s a
> continuing attempt to leverage another concession.
I’ll clarify: he said he will sign the QO unless there is a better offer. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t want a better offer.
Although you don’t see it often in basketball, It’s common in several sports, especially the NFL, as is holding out for a better contract. No front-office (except Jerry Jones in Dallas) allows personal feelings to survive beyond the signing. It’s a business.
The Warriors are particularly experienced at tolerating criticism, even poor behavior, in the media. See Draymond Green.
@arist. it will all depend on how much Lacob pushes the warriors to cave in to Kuminga demands. I don’t see Kuminga caving into Warrior’;s demands.
@aristotle
He didn’t actually say that ” he will sign the QO unless there is a better offer.”
Ofc, he wants GS to believe he will take the lose-lose Schroder/Noel path.
@NBAisOK, I’m not following, sorry.
Are you saying that he has never uttered those exact words? Because I hear his agent stating that unambiguously.
I’ve seen his agent talking, but I haven’t heard him “stating that unambiguously”.
Do you have a quote from one of the interviews where he says that word for word?
Here’s the quotes from the other day:
“He wants to pick where he wants to go. So the QO is real for sure. If JK wants to take it, it does have upside, right?” Turner said. “We’ve talked about that. You’re not getting traded. You’re going to have unrestricted free agency [next summer]. People are going to say, ‘Well, Aaron, there’s not going to be 10 or 12 teams [with cap space].’ Fine, there’ll be six teams with cap space for the clear-cut under-35 top wing on the market. So there’s a lot of upside.”
@NBAisOK, did you see the interview with Monte Poole and Dalton Johnson? I’ll stand by my take that Turner made their current thinking crystal-clear.
– Turner described the 4 offers (incl the QO),
– why they currently prefer the QO to the other 3, and will sign it unless there is a better offer
– what they hoped GSW would do (turn the team option to a player option) to seal the deal
– how Kerr’s statements after the season (as to Kuminga not being a starter in the next 2 years and being better off on another team) condition their stance
That’s the interview I posted the quotes from. Your interpretation of his remarks to include “(JK) will sign (the QO)” isn’t 100% accurate IMO.
There’s certainly multiple ways for GS to make a better offer. I’m not sure GS is considering agreeing to a player option, I’m speculating that they’ll call Turner’s bluff since player options in similar situations are rare, and their offer matches a much better RFA player’s deal (Giddey).
I hope the 2 sides can reach a compromise by Friday so everyone cam move on with less potential acrimony than if it lasts to 10/1. It just might become a lose-lose situation, but if so I think that’s more on JK and Turner than the team.
You have to admit that we all thought Kuminga was going to get a decent contract this offseason, no?? I dont want to hear no teams have cap space bs – Giddey got paid. How do you go from 5 yr $125m+ offer last yr to 2 yr $45m?? What transpired so much in 1 yr? If they dont believe in him, they could have nontendered, trade, etc. They are just cornering him bevause he also doesnt have too many options aside from QO threat which Warriors do fear. Regardless, it will be a mess even when he signs. :(
@arc89 agree, it all depends on Lacob. If he doesn’t budge, Kuminga signs the QO on Oct 1
(the rare reply option, I wish this website would fix the problem)
IMO he’s both not that stupid, and considering how much $ his agent would lose, I’d be especially surprised if he signs the QO.
@NBAisOK, Agreed, this is brinksmanship. He may not want to sign the QO. But it’s the right move for him to wait as long as possible.
Basically, if the Warriors can’t convince Kuminga to sign an extension, they can write off the value of Kuminga as an asset. He’ll be gone for very little before the trade deadline.
So if JK signs the QO, he has no trade veto rights? Does that mean a trade could still happen if he approves it?
I would say that’s what would happen sooner rather than later as Kuminga sours on his Warriors role and says, “OK fine, trade me.”
You combine his 8 million whenever that becomes doable, with Moses Moody’s 13 million and whatever else you need to do and bring in a $20 million player who can help.
That’s how this will go down. Stubbornness will win and the chips will fall where they may.
@GaryRSW
The wording is a bit confusing but in the unlikely event that a team is willing to trade for JK + Moody, it could happen if he approves it.
The reasons that scenario unlikely is that interested teams are more likely to wait until he’s a UFA, and GSW (having successfully lowballed Moody) wants to keep him.
OK, that makes sense except for the lowballing Moody part. If it’s all about money, it’s not a lowball that’s his market value as a guy who’s not that good.
He shoots the three after working on it for four years. Other than that, he’s got a great body With long arms, good size, etc. but he’s not very fast.
His feet are slow. He can’t handle and all the rest of it that I’ve been saying for four years. It’s not a low ball it’s about right.
@GaryRSW
You’re entitled to your opinion, but a 3 yr contract avging $12.5 mil yr at the present time for an efficient 23 yo 6’5″ SG is a definite underpay.
@NBAisOK,
I agree with Gary on Moody. At $12M/yr, Moody is making exactly his market value. Moody will never be an NBA starter. He’s a 4th wing on an average team.
Offensively, he’s an above average, but not great, 3 point shooter off the catch, but he can’t shoot on the move. He’s not a ball handler and his passing is under-average. He’s not explosive enough to take anybody off the bounce.
Defensively, Moody has long arms and toughness, which makes him a decent on-ball defender, but, as Gary unerringly points out, he’s got slow feet and poor lateral mobility.
You’re wrong about efficient. He doesn’t rebound, he can’t pass, he can’t create his own shot, he has no handles, he has no lateral quickness, his best position at 6-5 is power forward according to Steve Kerr, cough, cough, and well.., he’s become a good three-point shooter.
To me, that’s not an efficient player.., that’s a guy you gave a nice contract too because he’s a good kid and did everything you asked for four years.
Now let’s ship him out of town with the other guy you drafted that’s no good. We already shipped the GM who drafted these guys out of town.., let’s ship the players out, and pronto.
Well Gary, like JK, Kerr limits Moody’s minutes, but he has a career TS% of .581, and a peak season of .603.
And @aristotle:
“Moody will never be an NBA starter. ”
He started 34 games last season for GSW, and has 57 starts in his career.
He’s worked on his shooting and I’ll give him credit for that. A ton of credit.
It always rankles me when people say the Kerr limited Moody’s or Kuminga’s minutes. Of course he did, it was for a very good reason. Rookies and young players make mistakes that lose games. If OKC, Utah, or some other team had drafted them, they would have gotten more minutes. But, they weren’t going anywhere. They didn’t care about losing. The Warriors won a Ring that the FO didn’t expect to happen. So, they were forced to defend a title. It is hard to defend a title and develop players at the same time.
@ Giants74
In 2022-23, they were defending a title. In 2023-24, they were defending a 44-38 season and a 2nd rd exit. That season, Kuminga was the 3rd leading scorer that Kerr limited to the 7th most minutes, and Moody had the 8th most.
That team finished 10th and missed the playoffs. Had those young players gotten more of a chance to develop, last season might have ended differently (we’ll never know).
Even Kuminga’s agent admits the championships limited his playing time. They are still under the Curry window. No Klay, Steph, or Draymond and he would have had more playing time. Tanking is good for player development.
@NBAisOK, Yes, I am aware that Moody has started games. But he plays out of necessity, when the Warriors don’t have all their pieces. Now, He’s back to the bench with the addition of Melton and Horford.
Moody had his chance to make a case as a permanent starter in the playoffs. But he had a horrendous slump, and was totally unplayable. When Moody is not knocking down shots, he has little else to offer.
A lot of fams here thought he was only worthy of $5m per. Even he was not developed properly by the team(journeymen getting playing time over him). At least he had a bit of breakthrough last yr and contributed.
> So if JK signs the QO, he has no trade veto rights?
No, he retains his intrinsic trade veto rights if he signs the QO. He’ll remain on the roster until the end of the season until/unless GSW can find a mutually satisfactory trade partner.
Here’s spitballing a trade that probably won’t happen. But, we don’t know how things will be at the Trade Deadline.
Depending on how things go, Houston might be desperate at the TD. They might need veteran help at the PG. With KDs clock ticking, they might be willing to give up Thompson. The Warriors have a TE that would work.
If Moody shoots the way he did before his injury, they could move Heild to a 3rd team. His contract is basically expiring.
The 3rd team could move a PG to Houston. They would gain some cap space.
Thompson can replace Kuminga. They would also have more money to shop in the off-season.
Just playing.
LMAO
This thing is so heated, might as well as have some fun with it.
Our SloMo TPE is only half Klay’s salary. And we can’t “bundle” another salary with a TPE.
Klay plays for the Mavericks, not the Rockets.
By Thompson, he means Amen. That’s why Giant74 is “playing” or joking.., because amen is a future All-Star and untradable. You can’t have him and don’t even bring him up, kind of player. The guy is a stud in the making.
QO comes with a no-trade clause. JK could waive it, but a trade would not come with a new contract, so it’s hard to see why he’d do it. And if he did, the Dubs would demand value via draft assets, since they could only take ~$8M in salary in a trade.
Sorry, I should’ve put a dash between no and trade above. I made it sound confusing.
“A no-trade clause and veto rights.”
Oh boy! I cannot wait for Kerr to drop his idiotic dream rotation of:
Payton 2-Podz-Melton-Curry-Curry
…you KNOW its coming!!!
—- The Countdown —-
eight days till Kuminga signs QO ……
8 days till Horford, Melton, Payton ………
Eight days till October 1st ……
I think arc suggested this the other day, but perhaps something could be in the interest of the Rockets now with their big injury?
I’m sure the Warriors are calling around the league this very second looking at point guards, and trying to formulate some kind of three or 4 team deal that would benefit all and involving an established guy going to Houston and JK headed to a desirable location (which I think there’s two in the league lol. And it’s not about him?)
Then the Warriors could weasel out of this tough situation and avoid a six month minimum purgatory.
@aristotle
“Moody had his chance to make a case as a permanent starter in the playoffs. But he had a horrendous slump, and was totally unplayable. ”
Given that he had a thumb ligament injury that required surgery, the resulting slump isn’t very relevant as to whether he would have been a permanent starter.
In the games prior to his injury, on his shooting hand, Moody was shooting 48%/41%. Was that just a one off thing? I guess we will find out.