JULY 9: The Warriors have officially signed Robinson, per NBA.com’s transactions log.
JULY 2: The Warriors and free agent wing Glenn Robinson III have reached an agreement on a two-year deal with a second-year player option, agent Jelani Floyd tells Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
While terms of the deal aren’t yet known, a minimum-salary contract seems likely, given Golden State’s cap limitations. Even then, by giving Robinson a two-year deal, the Warriors would incur a 2019/20 cap hit of $1,882,867 rather than $1,620,564, pushing them ever so slightly toward their hard cap at the $138.9MM tax apron, as cap expert Albert Nahmad notes (via Twitter).
Robinson, 25, has spent time with the Timberwolves, Sixers, Pacers, and Pistons since entering the league in 2014 as a second-round pick. Last season, he averaged 4.2 PPG and 1.5 RPG in 47 games (13.0 MPG) in a disappointing season for Detroit.
The Pistons held a $4.3MM team option on Robinson for the 2019/20 season, but unsurprisingly decided to decline it.
While Robinson knocked down just 29.0% of his three-point attempts last season, the Warriors will be hoping he can recapture the form he showed with the Pacers in his previous three seasons, when he made 39.3% of his three-point tries in 137 games (albeit on just 1.4 attempts per contest).
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GSW making assets assets assets…
Kawhi soon :)
Im a huge warriors fan, but I’m not sure where this rumor is coming from. Nobody from the bay area has even mentioned it as a possibility…
Robinson has a rep… should be good but isn’t– much like WCS. Myers inherited most of GSW; recently at least, he has been making the sorts of decisions made by rookies.
Inherited draymond, Barnes, iggy and Livingston???
No splash there, or Bogut… but some exaggeration in the OP.
Can you explain why the second year option would increase the cap hit this year? Thanks.
Copying and posting from our post on minimum salaries, which is here: link to hoopsrumors.com
“Because the NBA doesn’t want teams to avoid signing veteran players in favor of cheaper, younger players, the league reimburses clubs who sign veterans with three or more years of experience to one-year, minimum salary contracts. Those deals will only count against the cap – and against a team’s bank balance – for $1,620,564, the minimum salary for a player with two years of experience.
For instance, if Tyson Chandler – who has 18 years of NBA experience – signs a one-year, minimum salary contract with a new team, that team would only be charged $1,620,564 for Chandler’s contract. He’d earn $2,564,753, but the NBA would make up the difference. This only applies to one-year contracts, rather than multiyear deals.”
Ah, thank you. I knew about the 2 year minimum rule, but didn’t realize it only applied to one year contracts. Thanks again.
Dad was “The Big Dog; he’s “The Big Dud”.
I think this is going to be a good fit on the wing
It’s been reported that Dloading will be used as a Trade peice and they just want something useable back for him. Obviously the Timberwolves were very high on him and apparently he wanted to go there. Maybe a deal could be found like Andrew Wiggins plus an unprotected first round pick and 2 second round picks. GSW will get a scorer in Wiggins with lots of Potential who could possible reach the next level of not he’s still a 18p6r4a player. They also get some picks for the future.
Timberwolves would then get Russell to pair with Culver Covington Vonleh and KAT in a new young fast paced team. It would cost the team some picks but you do have Russell KAT Culver and Covington all on long term deals. Culver and Covington are both really cheap and once Teague and Deing are off the books you can look to upgrade at Power forward.
If something like that were sctuslly the plan they would have just made a three team trade at the time instead of being stuck until December.