Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson isn’t particularly excited about becoming a free agent at the end of the season. He doubts he could find a better situation than he’s already in, as Anthony Slater of The Athletic tweets. “Not really. When guys go into free agency, they’re looking for situations like mine. I’m content.” Thompson, who will make a shade under $19MM this season, will be an unrestricted FA unless he signs an extension. Golden State owner Joe Lacob said he’d like to sign Thompson to an extension but nothing is imminent. Thompson deferred all extension questions to his agent, as Nick Friedell of ESPN tweets.
In other news regarding the Warriors:
- Power forward Draymond Green is signed through the 2019/20 season and he anticipates staying with the organization beyond that point, Mark Medina of the San Jose Mercury News reports. Lacob indicated the organization has also been discussing an extension with Green’s representatives. Green isn’t sure if they’ll come to an agreement but he doesn’t see himself wearing another uniform in the foreseeable future. “I’m confident I’ll be here a very long time,” he said.
- Kevon Looney knows DeMarcus Cousins will be the team’s center once he fully recovers from his Achilles injury, according to the Warriors website post. Looney expects a spirited competition for minutes at that spot until Cousins’ return. “Since I’ve been here we’ve been playing center by committee. That’s what we’re going to do to start the season off. … until he come back we’re going to go out there and do our best and hunt it down,” Looney said.
- With Kevin Durant, Thompson, Cousins and several other players eligible to be free agents after the season and growing payroll concerns, there’s a feeling that the team’s dynasty could soon be coming to an end. Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post takes a closer look at that possibility.
Paul Pierce says he thinks the Warriors starting 5 is the best of all time. I don’t remember much of the Celtics, but I think they are better than the Michael Jordan Bulls.
Sure Bontemps would say that about Golden State, Durant is from Washington. The media hates it because Thompson, Curry, Draymond, and Durant are unselfish All Stars who play great together, and they’ll do whatever it takes to stay together. The Warriors get extra money from winning titles and will get even more from a new arena next season. The media wants the Lakers. Steph, KD, Draymond, Klay, and DeMarcus want the Warriors.
I’m so glad that you said this. People can’t stand that they are genuinely nice people and that they are going to be unselfish to continue the dynasty.
The only guy who I think might not be fully unselfish is Cousins. He will probably want more money than the Warriors will be able to offer if he has a bounce-back year
Durant and Cousins are the most likely to leave. Nothing remains the same.
Klays family has money, and Klay has the shoe deal in China. If Durant wanted to join LeBron in Los Angeles, he could have done it this past summer. “And he didn’t.” Steph says the Hampton 5 is focused on winning as many championships as they can. They don’t want to stop at 3.
Because if KD went to the Lakers this year it would make him look like he was riding Lebrons coattail hard. Also make would look like he was in GS just to get some rings and dip. It needs 1 more year to marinate if he wants to go to LAL.
Well put. Next summer everything will look differently to those involved.
They have all made more than enough money to last a lifetime. If they want to go down in history as one of the most dominant forces the NBA has or will ever see they have the opportunity if they all agree to take less than they could get from other teams.
Not sure they all have the heart and drive to go for 5-6 titles. Each year it seems to get harder and harder to stay inspired and motivated.
The NBA always adapts and corrects itself over time. Players and teams get better year by year.
The Lakers lineups of either Johnson-Scott-Worthy-Green-Jabbar was as good as the Warriors … going back old school, Goodrich-West-Baylor-Harrison-Chamberlain was too bad either!