The Warriors won’t submit a qualifying offer to James Michael McAdoo, tweets Chris Haynes of ESPN.com, meaning McAdoo will become an unrestricted free agent.
McAdoo has been with Golden State for three seasons and appeard in a career-high 52 games this year. However, he averaged just 8.8 minutes per night and hasn’t progressed past being a little-used bench player.
The 24-year-old was in the same position last summer, headed toward unrestricted free agency after the Warriors refused to tender a qualifying offer. He re-signed with Golden State in mid-July, receiving a one-year, minimum-salary deal.
Biggest scrub to ever win 2 champions
ridiculous. At least, many guys have compared to him.
E.g., going back to the Lakers 87 and 88 title teams, here are a some guys who were at least as much of a “scrub,” many far less valuable to their championship teams than McAdoo:
* Scott Williams (early 91 and 92 Bulls)
* Josh Powell (2009 and 2010 Lakers)
* DJ Mbenga (09 & 10 Lakers)
* Devin Brown (2003 & 2005 Spurs — I actually think he’s a perfect McAdoo comparison — he was a useful player for his team in very limited minutes, just like JMM)
* Stanislav Medvedenko (2001 and 2002 Lakers)
* Mike Penberty (2001 and 2002 Lakers, and he was WAY more a scrub than JMM or anybody else I’ve listed)
* Dickey Simpkins (96, 97 and 98 Bulls – another pretty on point comparison)
* Bill Wennington (96, 97, and 98 Bulls)
* Mike Smrek (87 and 88 Lakers
And I made that list by just looking at teams with more than one title in a short time-period.
I’m sure there are some random end-of-bench guys who were on different franchises’ championship teams who are just as bad or worse than these guys. And I only chose guys who were scrubs their whole careers, excluding guys like Wes Matthews or Billy Thompson of the 86 and 87 Lakers teams, who were “scrubs” on that team, but did have a few okay seasons in their career.
Just to be clear “biggest scrub you can remember because you can only remember back to last season and because you don’t understand a player’s role” isn’t the same thing as “biggest scrub.”
-James mcadoos agent
Adam Morrison has 3 championships…just an FYI
How can you be subjected to 2 potential qualifying offers?
You’re eligible to be a restricted free agent anytime you reach free agency with three or fewer years of NBA experience. So technically you could be denied a QO three years in a row.
Weird. So McAdoo signed a 1 year deal as a 2nd round pick coming into the league?
If I recall correctly, he signed a two-year deal that expired in 2016. Then a one-year deal that of course expires this week. So now he has three years of experience, which made him eligible for restricted free agency again. Once he gets a fourth year, he’ll just be a UFA going forward.
Second-round picks and undrafted guys generally have different RFA rules applied to them than first-round picks, who are eligible for restricted free agency when their four-year rookie contracts end.
Ah
I didn’t realize that I just thought it was at the end of their rookie scale or first deal.
Hopefully they can bring him back to give them minutes as a small ball 5/4. He was really good in that role for them, and is a good fit. But I could see him getting 3-5 million from someone and more playing time in that role.