Restricted free agent guard Patrick McCaw is expected to decline his one-year, $1.71MM qualifying offer from the Warriors, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets.
If that comes to fruition, McCaw would remain an RFA. McCaw was reportedly offered a two-year contract from the Warriors but also plans to turn that down. The previous report indicted it was a $4MM offer but ESPN’s Marc Spears tweets that Golden State proposed a two-year deal worth approximately $5MM with the second year not guaranteed.
McCaw had an October 1st deadline to sign the qualifying offer.
By NBA rules, teams are permitted to extend the qualifying offer deadline beyond that date, so the Warriors could leave McCaw’s QO on the table. However, clubs rarely agree to push back that deadline, since removing the qualifying offer from the equation improves a team’s leverage, limiting the restricted free agent’s options.
His qualifying offer is worth $200K more than his minimum salary of $1.51MM. He’s apparently willing to roll the dice with the hope that Golden State will let him go. As Anthony Slater of The Athletic tweets, McCaw could drag out the process and force the Warriors to move on without him, hoping they won’t match offer sheet once his roster spot is committed to someone else.
The Warriors have been holding a spot open for McCaw, who struggled during his sophomore season in 2017/18. In 57 games (16.9 MPG), the former second-round pick averaged 4.0 PPG, 1.4 RPG, and 1.4 APG with a .409/.238/.765 shooting line.
McCaw is the only restricted free agent left on the market.
Good. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
You’re not gonna do any better, take the money and the complimentary championship ring
Bye bye patty.
He’s got rings guys, maybe he wants to actually play some games.
He got worse last year. But he looks like a player… probably should move on.
Cmon pat tf you doing bro
He wants minutes, and good on him. Not every guy is content sitting at the end of the bench all season.
Daniel house is better anyway, he might not be as fast which is what Kerr said after alot of games is what they liked about McCaw, the change of pace, someone to pressure on the perimeter, steal a few minutes guarding the other teams best scorer. House is better offensively especially shooting McCaw took a step back his shot didn’t look good and he was so fast but he gets out of control too much.
And house had that off the backboard dunk vs the warriors last year, he played great against them.
I’m surprised he would turn it down, playing on great teams like warriors gets you more attention playing on biggest stage in most watched games. But he probably wouldn’t play much so maybe another team promised him more playing time and he doesn’t want warriors to match but he doesn’t want the story out there that he doesn’t want to play for warriors, people would judge him for not wanting to play for a winner.