JULY 6: The Warriors have officially signed Jackson-Davis, the team announced today (via Twitter).
JULY 5: The Warriors are signing second-round pick Trayce Jackson-Davis to a four-year contract, agents James Dunleavy and Max Lipsett tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link). The first two years will be guaranteed, according to Wojnarowski.
The 57th overall pick in last month’s draft, Jackson-Davis is coming off an impressive four-year college career at Indiana. As a senior in 2022/23, the 6’9″ forward averaged a double-double (20.9 PPG, 10.8 RPG) with 4.0 APG and 2.9 BPG in 32 contests (34.5 MPG).
Jackson-Davis was a consensus first team All-American and an All-Big Ten player in 2023, earning the Karl Malone award as college basketball’s top power forward.
Golden State acquired Jackson-Davis’ draft rights from the Wizards in exchange for cash considerations.
The Warriors have no cap room and no mid-level exception available this offseason, so they would’ve been limited to offering Jackson-Davis a two-year, minimum-salary contract if not for the NBA’s new second-round pick exception, which allows them to go up to four years. The final year of the deal will be a team option.
This signing guarantees the warriors another NBA Finals.
Amen !!! Welcome aboard Eddie. Plenty of room on the bandwagon.
It’s great when your brother represents a player you want in the second round so when the 15 teams above you threaten to draft him, the brother makes a phone call and says,
“Don’t bother drafting Trayce. We will only sign with the Warriors.” LOL
I read this was done by insisting that he would only sign for a 15 man roster spot. Not a lot of teams give that to 2nd rounders.
Actually it happened last year with reeves who told teams he only wanted to sign with the Lakers and didn’t work out for other teams.
The new rule for 2nd round picks is going to lead to a lot of trading out of the backend of the 1st round. No guaranteed rookie scale contracts, you get to look at your 2nd rounder and either sign him for up to four years, a two way deal, or just let them go with no penalty.
Mitch Robinson is a perfect example of a guy the Knicks had making less than $2M a year for four seasons while he racked up a stat line of eight points, eight boards and two blocks a game over that timeframe.
Please be instantly NBA-ready like your “best case” profiles say you are Trayce, we need everyone to be good next year and then we chip.
As a four-year college guy and Senior coming out I would say he’ll be as ready as anyone. Very fortunate he fell into their laps and nepotism was at work.
Now sign Jahil Okafor