The Warriors remain in the market for further deals after reaching agreement on a trade that sends D’Angelo Russell to Minnesota for Andrew Wiggins, tweets Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area. If nothing else happens today, more roster shake-up is expected this summer.
Antony Slater of the Athletic notes that Golden State has traded six of the 14 players on its roster in the past two weeks (Twitter link). In addition to Russell, Willie Cauley-Stein, Alec Burks, Glenn Robinson III, Omari Spellman and Jacob Evans have all found new homes.
There’s more deadline-related news to pass along:
- The Suns are listening to offers for Kelly Oubre, but aren’t close to making a deal, tweets Marc Stein of The New York Post. The Magic are among the teams that have made a call to Phoenix.
- The Bulls aren’t any closer to trading Denzel Valentine, relays K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago, (Twitter link).
- The Wizards are hoping to acquire Jerome Robinson from the Clippers, tweets David Aldridge of TNT. They liked Robinson in the 2018 draft, but he wound up in L.A.
- The Knicks contacted the Pacers about point guard Aaron Holiday, according to Ian Begley of SNY.tv. The attempt was made before Steve Mills was fired as team president, and it’s unclear if there has been any more discussion. Indiana reportedly brought up veteran forward Marcus Morris, who is headed to the Clippers, as part of the return.
The incompetence of the Bulls management on full display once again. They don’t want Valentine and they’re not bringing him back next season therefore it doesn’t matter what you get in return.
Is nobody taking their calls? Cannot make sense of that.
$130M tied up next season in Steph, Klay, Wiggins, and Green.
It will be interesting to see what they can surround them with.
Lots of draft picks. And mid level signing like they did this past off season.
How much is tied up in Harden and Westbrook? Not nearly as much and they are much further away from winning a title in the years to come than the GSW!
I don’t understand the salary cap rules. By trading Russell does that free them from being hard capped next season?
Trading Rusell won’t impact that. Teams become hard-capped in a given year by using the full-sized mid-level exception, using the bi-annual exception, or acquiring a player via sign-and-trade (like the Warriors did with Russell).
If the Warriors do any of those things during the 2020 offseason, they’ll be hard-capped again for next season. If not, they won’t be.