Warriors free agent wing Kelly Oubre sat down with Stadium’s Shams Charania for an interview on Wednesday to discuss his up-and-down season with in Golden State, as well as his free agency plans.
“This season obviously wasn’t my best showing, but at the end of the day, I know what I’m capable of and I think the whole world knows what I’m capable of,” Oubre said.
Oubre, who has never lacked confidence, spoke on why he feels he stands apart from other free agents in this year’s class: “I’m a worker. I wouldn’t always get better and you wouldn’t be able to see improvements in my game somewhere each and every year if I wasn’t working continuously and staying locked in and focused on my craft. I think that puts me at an advantage over a lot of other free agents.”
An unrestricted free agent, the 25-year-old will try to find a permanent home after bouncing around from the Wizards to the Sunsto the Warriors over the last few seasons.
We have more from around the Pacific Division:
- Stanford one-and-done wing Ziaire Williams had a workout with the Kings on Wednesday, writes Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee. The 6’8″ shot creator had a turbulent freshman year, but was a top recruit coming out of high school. Anderson also writes that Moses Moody appears to have worked out for the Kings, as he posted a photo of himself in a Kings practice jersey to Instagram on Friday. Anderson tweeted a screenshot of a similar Instagram post last night from Kai Jones. The Kings have the No. 9 pick in this year’s draft.
- The Lakers worked out six prospects today, tweets Lakers reporter Kyle Goon: Miles McBride, Ayo Dosunmu, Jaden Springer, Sandro Mamukelashvili, Mac McClung and Balsa Koprivica. The Lakers have the 22nd pick, and McBride, Dosunmu and Springer are all rumored to potentially be in that range.
- The Suns’ arena is getting a new name, writes Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic. The arena will be called The Footprint Center moving forward.
Someone is going to overpay Oubre by a lot…
I can see the Knicks doing so. I hope not though. Overpay I mean. I’m for acquiring him for a reasonable sum
He will get a reasonable sum. But that will be an overpay.
Oubre Fake rumors – means highly unlikely
Knicks have other plans
Heat have other plans
Mavs are likely to keep Hardaway, no cap at all
Not attractive teams – likely to sign Oubre
Raptors
Hornets
It will be just like the Warriors last year. Someone will sign Oubre because he’s the only guy left available for that slot as an athletic wing who can score a little.
Oubre had a worse year on a better team than the previous year so what he can do is not somehow hidden. He is spinning it but will someone believe him?
Only takes 1 and as someone who can defend wings he probably finds that acorn untarnished and ripe
Somebody will sign him for too much. the guy is so inconsistent. He will have a few good games then disappear for the next week. The Warriors announcer sounded like his PR guy acted like Oubre was this great player that could do no wrong. I wish their play by play man would go with Oubre where ever that turns out to be.
Too much is funny in the NBA tho, because its basically the norm for most mid-tier players that still have some notion of “upside’ (or whatever you want to call it *pixie dust ) to their name. I feel Oubre still has a tiny sprinkle of that dust; tho it’s drying up quickley –
my take is there is dust there but Oubre doesn’t have the drive to be great. Most of the top NBA players have that extra drive to push beyond their limits to win. Oubre doesn’t have the push to be a top player. To many times he goes to the 3 pt line and stands there while Curry and Green are running around. He has the talent just not the drive.
Why do they alway have to add Center, Arena, or Stadium to a name. The Footprint would sound much cooler even if it’s a weird name lol.
Throw back to the days of The Garden (yes I know it was mown technically as The Boston Garden), The Forum, and stuff like that.
Lol “we’re here to mow the garden. Specifically the Boston garden” lol get it
The name change didn’t help, the Suns got stepped all over at the Footprint (or Hoofprint).
In one of the draft threads, it was asked what the case would be for Kuminga being the 2nd pick.
THIS is EXHIBIT A. After 6 years of only selectively showing a pulse, Oubre can still claim (without being completely dismissed) that he’s worth 20 mm / year. If his skill set were not combo/flex SF, this would be laughable. He’s not good, but there simply aren’t enough players with this skill set to go around, many of the best teams have good ones and its quite hard to match up the good ones if you don’t have even a mediocre one. Demand is reluctant, at best, because of the lack of quality. But Supply is never high, and can disappear at times.
I think this is a very good point. Especially with how overhyped the depth of these “monster draft classes” can be. I am thinking back to that Oubre draft. Everyone was hyping up Wiggins, Parker, Embiid, Randle as franchise players and some were even hyping up Oubre and Smart as potential allstars.
Looking back you can see Embiid was the only franchise player, Parker was a major bust, Wiggins never lived up to his potential, Randle just now had one great season, and Smart is a really good role player. No way all of these 5 players this draft end up as franchise pieces. Maybe 2-3 at most.
That year was a consensus top 3. Smart, Randle & Oubre were not in it except maybe in the Boston media market as the Celtics had the #6 slot.
It’s almost a lock that no more than 2 will be franchise players, and no more than 3 will even make a single All Star team. The funniest thing is that the people (media and fans) that treat the current scouting consensus on the most hyped prospects as sacrosanct, are invariably the same ones who most revel in mocking teams for their past draft “mistakes”. I guess they don’t realize that the process has changed, the teams that made those draft “mistakes” were following the same level of scouting consensus, often created by the same scouts. Yes, there is nothing in Cade C’s scouting profile that means he has to be better than Fultz or Lonzo. Nothing in Mobley’s that means he definitely won’t be another Darko. The other 3 as well.
No to Obrue , no no. We need a shooter/scorer. Rather have Fournier than Obrue. Everyone uses NY to drive market up. We are suppose to sign EveryOne. Obrue had a nice second half. But his gm is too much like RJ and Randle. We don’t need another. Imo Lnicks are trading up. Depending who we get. Will tell us if they sign a PG or scorer/shooter. I know Thibs likes Powell. But Blazers are in crisis mode. They might have to resign him.
Anyone that gives Tsunami Papi 20M or more may be looking for a new job. Imagine this dude as your 2nd or 3rd highest paid player.