JULY 8: Young’s deal with the Warriors is now official, the team announced in a press release.
JULY 5: Nick Young will be joining the defending champions for the 2017/18 season, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link). Agent Mark Bartelstein tells Wojnarowski that his client has agreed to sign a one-year, $5.2MM deal with the Warriors.
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Young turned down a $5.67MM player option to remain with the Lakers for ’17/18, so he’ll be taking a slight pay cut and will be leaving him hometown of Los Angeles in order to join the Warriors. However, his odds of earning his first championship ring increase significantly with the move.
Golden State has no cap room available, but hadn’t yet used its mid-level exception. Because the Warriors will be above the tax apron this season, their MLE is worth just $5.192MM — Young will receive that entire amount, leaving the Dubs with just the minimum salary exception available as they look for big men to fill out their roster. The team’s own free agents like Zaza Pachulia and JaVale McGee could receive slightly more than the minimum if they were to return, since Golden State holds their Non-Bird rights.
Last offseason, Young was viewed as a potential release candidate for the Lakers. At the time, he was coming off a season in which he averaged career-worst marks in PPG (7.3) and FG% (.339). However, he enjoyed a solid bounce-back season in 2016/17, starting 60 games for Los Angeles, averaging 13.2 PPG and posting a shooting line of .430/.404/.856.
After reaching the open market on Saturday, Young reportedly drew interest from the Timberwolves, Pelicans, and Thunder in addition to the Warriors. Minnesota was believed to have made him a two-year offer, though it likely would have only been worth the room exception, which starts at $4.328MM.
The Warriors’ total commitments for 2017/18 now appear to be in the neighborhood of $133MM, with more to come, as cap expert Albert Nahmad tweets. The tax line for this year is just over $119MM, so Golden State’s roster is starting to get expensive. By the time the team is done filling out its roster, its projected tax penalties may exceed $40MM.
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5.2 is what the MLE was. Correct?
It’s the tax payer MLE
Chase the ring. Sign money to get a ring!!
Do you have some kind of head injury? Literally every single player in the league is chasing a ring.
“sign money to get a ring” – this doesnt even make sense, go home youre drunk dude
The Warriors are building an insane team.
he the garbage time jester
Beat me to it
the Dubs’ second unit will be better than the lakers starting 5 last year. Thanks for comin over bean burrito!
Can’t believe they’re willing to risk the team chemistry by adding a self centered showboat like young. First Warriors move in a long time that I can’t understand. Can’t stand this guy
You obviously didn’t watch him last year
That team is full of vets, he will have no choice but to conform. He could get away with his antics playing with kids. Look at McGee and Matt Barnes, they fight right in.
You can never have enough shooters. Especially with the monitoring of minutes for many of the guys Young will provide excellent pop off the bench. And if it doesn’t work out which I know what will they can always cut him.
I don’t understand how teams can be allowed to go over the cap by so much. I know they have to pay for it tax penalties but it’s still just crazy to me. And I thought the NBA wanted to do away with super teams like the Warriors and Cavs? Oh wait..that was just the Lakers they were trying to stop from constantly build super team after super team. Everyone else is open game lol.
Yeah man the NBA is super biased against the Lakers….lol come on
They blocked a trade that would’ve gotten the Lakers Chris Paul because they didn’t want any more super teams. They wanted things to be more fair. The package the Lakers sent was far better than the one the Clippers sent. Owners were complaining about the trade because they didn’t want to Lakers to keep winning and the Commissioner gave in and blocked the trade.
They blocked it to improve the trade and Kuptchak blew it by trading Odom out of spite. Google it
^^almost every party involved has said this.
Wow Lakers fans are gonna be crying about that trade for the next fifty years. It’s not even the same commissioner anymore.
You’ve got to know in life and in business and in running an NBA team you’ve got to have about 10 scenarios in play. If one falls through plan A there’s 25 other letters in the alphabet. Chris Paul blocked to come to the Lakers you’ve got to have other plans in place and stop the sulking.
Shaq and Kobe were a super team. You spoiled fans missed out on one player and can’t let it go. You’ve had to deal with what, 2 bad seasons in your lifetime lol. What you are feeling are what Warriors fans felt about the Lakers for 20 years
warriors bandwagon fans ^^ still bitter Hahahaha
I kind of agree about how much teams are able to go over the cap, but my issue would be with taxpaying teams still having access to multi-million dollar exceptions. Would help balancing issues a bit and would force teams to be wary about the deals they sign/acquire.
He has a career year, giving him a shot to get 1 last payday and he takes less than he got previously…I’m pretty surprised, but its a really good fit on that team. I just think he could have at least doubled that money he got, in this market. But then again, market slowed down, and teamsare running out of space, and may not want to pay a 32 year old for his career year
When the Warriors win again, Swaggy P won’t have much to do with it.
Hows his defense?
Better than Jamal Crawford’s
If he wants to play he will D it up.
Not only the coaches but the other players his peers will be on him.
Plus it’s the genius of a one-year deal. Contract year he will be a model citizen higher percentage shooter than before and he will even play defense.
Literally every player wants a ring, stop crying.
Saggy P, each rider
He’a gotta drop that silly nickname. They’ll find a good one for him in Oakland.
I never do this because you’re always thorough but no mention in the article of how that clown Byron Scott almost ruined Nick Young’s career? Two seasons ago, the lowpoint of Nick Young’s career wasn’t all his fault.
Nick Young’s career was going nowhere fast under Scott. He would’ve been out of the league and we probably would have never saw him again had Byron Scott not been fired.
I know stats say otherwise but blame Byron Scott for not putting Nick Young in a position to succeed. Walton saved Nick Young’s career. What surprised me most about Young is he converted more than 40% three pointers on 421 attempts from downtown. He’s only 32 and got a one year deal. Very good deal for the Dubs.