Lester Quinones‘ 10-day contract with the Warriors expired after Saturday’s game, opening up a spot on Golden State’s 15-man roster.
Quinones remained with the Santa Cruz Warriors in the G League for most of the 10 days he spent under contract with Golden State. He was recalled to the NBA on Saturday and was technically active for last night’s game vs. Milwaukee, but didn’t play at all and has yet to make his NBA debut.
As we outlined when Quinones first signed his 10-day deal, his addition to the 15-man roster allowed the Warriors to continue using both of their two-way players, Anthony Lamb and Ty Jerome. Lamb has since reached his limit of 50 games on the active roster, while Jerome is now at 47 games and will be ineligible to play his final three unless Golden State fills its 15th roster spot again.
It will be interesting to see how the Warriors manage their two-way contracts and their 15-man roster going forward. Promoting Lamb to the standard roster would make him eligible to play in the rest of the team’s regular season games and in any postseason contests, in addition to freeing up Jerome for three more games. However, it would limit Golden State’s roster flexibility going forward and would force the club to waive a player on a guaranteed contract in order to sign anyone else before the end of the season.
Quinones is one of two players whose 10-day contract expired this week, joining Willie Cauley-Stein of the Rockets. Houston is now carrying just 13 players on standard deals and must add a 14th man (Cauley-Stein again or someone else) by March 23 to meet the NBA’s minimum roster requirements.
Three more players on 10-day contracts will see their deals expire tonight, while two others will expire on Monday night. Here’s the breakdown of the 10-day contracts currently active around the NBA:
- Jamaree Bouyea, Wizards (runs through 3/12)
- Sam Merrill, Cavaliers (3/12)
- Eugene Omoruyi, Pistons (3/12)
- Kris Dunn, Jazz (3/13) *^
- Meyers Leonard, Bucks (3/13) *
- DaQuan Jeffries, Knicks (3/14) ^
- Nerlens Noel, Nets (3/15)
Players marked with an asterisk (*) are on their second 10-day deals with their respective teams. That means Dunn and Leonard would have to be signed for the rest of the season if their clubs want to retain them beyond Monday night, since they aren’t permitted to sign three standard 10-day contracts with the same team.
Players marked with a caret (^) are on clubs that don’t currently have full 15-man rosters. The Jazz are actually currently carrying just 13 players and will need to get back up to at least 14 by March 18. So even if they lock up Dunn to a full-season contract, they’ll need to sign one more player before next Saturday.
The Knicks, meanwhile, would be at 13 players on their standard roster if they don’t re-sign Jeffries to a second 10-day deal and would have up to two weeks to add a new 14th man.
I have to say Iggy is looking horrible… Very disappointed in his preparation for the season. He did have one nice offensive rebound and tip in last night but …. :(
Warriors desperately need Wiggins and GP2, and Lamb too.
Iguodala has hurt his reputation with a lot of Warriors fans. He strung the Warriors along all offseason and then showed up out of shape which effectively left them with 2 empty roster spots. They should have signed a guy like Yuta Watanabe for the vet minimum and had a valuable bench player instead of the ghost of Iggy.
Out of shape, dude is a rock! He had lingering injuries that the Warriors were well aware of. Real Warriors fans love Iguodala.
Would the Warriors ever consider cutting Iggy? He gives nothing to the team other than morale, and even then, they could put him in the FO or Coaching staff like Zaza and Livingston. Then they could convert both of Jerome and Lamb, and sign Quinones and Jordan Schakel or someone to the two two-way deals
Warriors need a big they should trade for Wiseman
My old definition of fear was being up ONLY 13pts against Elway heading into the 4th qrter
That has been supplanted today by being up only 5 pts against Curry with 2 mins on the clock
Dude is just legendary cray
I would think Dunn is a lock to be signed. He’s played as great as a 10-day possibly can with that little of time with a team. He’s had near triple doubles or at least filled the stat sheet in pretty much every game he’s played decent minutes. He always produces even in the limited minute games.
Plus, he’s only 28. He fits the younger culture of the current roster. For reference, Olynyk is 30.
I think Dunn and Meyers Leonard are 100% going to get deals for the rest of the year. I’d guess that Omoruyi and Noel get full deals too.