The Warriors have made a series of roster moves in advance of the regular season deadline, announcing that they’ve converted guard Ty Jerome and swingman Anthony Lamb to two-way contracts while waiving guards Jerome Robinson and Pat Spencer (Twitter links).
All four players were in training camp on Exhibit 10 contracts, which can be converted to two-way deals or can make a player eligible for a bonus worth up to $50K if he spends at least 60 days with the team’s G League affiliate. Robinson and Spencer look like candidates to take the latter route and join the Santa Cruz Warriors if they clear waivers.
The 24th pick in the 2019 draft, Jerome spent his rookie season with the Suns before being sent to the Thunder as part of the Chris Paul trade. The 6’5″ guard, who helped Virginia win an NCAA championship in 2018/19, spent the last two seasons with Oklahoma City, averaging 8.6 PPG, 2.1 RPG and 2.6 RPG on .410/.353/.790 shooting in 81 total games with the Thunder (19.6 MPG). He was traded to Houston last month and was subsequently waived by the Rockets.
Lamb went undrafted out of Vermont in 2020 and signed a two-way contract with the Rockets during the ’20/21 season, appearing in 24 games (17.3 MPG) while averaging 5.5 PPG and 2.9 RPG on .390/.324/.857 shooting. He spent most of last season in the G League with Houston’s affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, averaging 17.3 PPG, 8.2 RPG, 4.8 APG and 1.3 BPG on .466/.390/.757 shooting in 31 regular season games (34.4 MPG).
Jerome and Lamb will provide depth in the Warriors’ backcourt and are eligible to play in up to 50 regular season games on their two-way deals. They’ll earn $508,891 apiece this season.
While it’s possible Golden State will sign-and-waive more players on Saturday, the team’s roster looks fairly set for the regular season. The Warriors will keep the 15th spot on their standard roster open to start the year, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic.
I like the move with Lamb, as someone that can shoot at the 4/3, and give them depth there, after losing otto porter, and relying on Balwin in that aspect as a depth guy
I like Ty Jerome, but see him more as depth in case of injury to Curry, Poole, Rollins, or even possibly Moody. I think maybe someone that can guard the guard spot, behind Divincenzo, wouldnhave maybe been a better choice there
You forgot about Thompson. He can backup Divencenzo.
Was that supposed to make sense? 7th man DiVencenzo isn’t going to start.
Lamb is a great pickup, Jerome is a stupid and useless fit on this team that’s like, ALL guards, which means the most annoying person in NBA history, Steve Kerr, will therefore overplay him like he did Chiozza, which will lead to Warriors fans being unnecessarily stressed and mad.
GSW has so much more talent, like Klay Thompson, who only an absolute smooth-brain would say is “backing up Donte fn Divincenzo” Donte is like, the 12th man on this stacked team lol Can’t wait for Klay Thompson to go off this year and silence all the plebs and moms basement losers who never even played who think he’s not a HOFer, total clown take.
The problem last year was GSW was stacked, but Kerr gave like, enourmous, 5+ minute long runs with Chiozza at PG at key points in the game, and in ALL of those games, bringing in Chiozza meant the lead went away very quickly, which infuriated GSW fans + caused losses.
Dear Steve Kerr, please do not play 2-way players this year at all unless its 4Q of a blowout, thanks. You have MUCH BETTER PAYERS ON THE MAIN ROSTER.
Jerome will play meaningless minutes. Unless a injury occurs to a main small player I see Jerome as playing G league a lot. Rollins or Poole will get a lot of minutes of Curry takes a day off. They are leaving the 15th man spot open which is a good move to replace a starter if a season ending injury happens during the year.
He will get second unit run on the nights that Curry rests and Poole starts as the PG.