The Warriors intend to fill one of the open spots on their roster by signing forward Kevin Knox, sources tell Anthony Slater of The Athletic (Twitter link).
According to Slater, Knox is expected to sign a 10-day contract, with the deal on track to be finalized next week coming out of the All-Star break.
The ninth overall pick in the 2018 draft, Knox has six years of NBA experience under his belt, but hasn’t been in the league since being waived by Golden State in October. He appeared in 31 games for the Pistons last season, scoring 7.2 points in 18.1 minutes per night on .462/.330/.909 shooting.
The veteran forward has spent the 2024/25 season in the G League with the Santa Cruz Warriors, averaging 21.8 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 2.4 assists in 32.6 minutes per game across 28 total NBAGL appearances for Golden State’s affiliate. He has posted a shooting line of .495/.389/.759.
The Warriors currently have three open spots on their 15-man roster and will have to fill two of them by February 20 in order to get back to the required minimum of 14 players on standard contracts — teams are only allowed to dip below that minimum for up to 14 consecutive days and 28 total days in a season.
However, Golden State only has about $1.37MM in wiggle room below its hard cap, so the team will be careful about how it uses that remaining room below the first apron for the rest of the season. Simply signing three players to rest-of-season contracts isn’t an option at this point due to that restriction.
A 10-day deal for Knox will carry a cap hit of $119,972. If the Warriors complete a pair of 10-day signings next Thursday, they would have the option of going another 14 days with just 12 players under contract after those two 10-day deals expire.
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Knox does deserve another chance. I really think they should sign Wiseman right now and Jazian Gortman to a two way contract
Last time Wiseman was injured on the bench for GS they won a championship
Patrick McCaw is still winning with 5 different championships. Is it more?
Wiseman is out for the season. Why sign him?
I can’t believe he’s only 25 still.
If ever there was a guy who should’ve stay in NCAA for another year.
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Knox picked 2 spots before SGA is just another reason why the Knicks deserve to be folded and have never been a serious NBA team.
Its funny looking at the list of teams who passed on SGA and its literally a who’s who of 2000’s-incompetent franchises:
Suns, Kings, Hawks, Grizzlies, Mavs, Magic, Cavs, Bulls, Knicks, 76ers
Cavs LITERALLY won a title 9 years ago. I wouldn’t say they are “incompetent franchise” lmao
And Clippers picked SGA, not OKC.
Davey was a big fan of the Wiseman pick btw
Wiseman just needs time.
Davey J and raz427: what do you think the chances are (give me a %) the Dubs use one of those last spots for……Marcus ‘FREAKING’ Smart!! Say he gets bought out (by the Wizards?)……ANY chance this union could happen??
0 %
GSW cant sign anyone making more than the MLE on the buyout market
@Cap & Crunch The Warriors are under the first apron, so that restriction doesn’t apply to them (not that I expect Smart to become available).
Nice catch, indeed, having trouble fully recognizing that after so many years operating at the moon with salaries, Thanks, A new era is upon us
Marcus Smart is making $20 million this year and he’s also guaranteed $21.5 million next year.
How would the Washington wizards buy that out? Just pay Marcus Smart $20 million to go away next year? That’s not happening.
That list validates that Davey J is the one that does not know ball. He should come out now and say that the Warriors are the only competent franchise in existence.
@Davey Boy: Hawks and Mavs drafted Doncic and Trae Young. Doncic is more valuable than SGA. Don’t let recency bias tell you otherwise. Young has been great.
Also when your precious Warriors drafted James Wiseman, they passed on Lamelo, Maxey, Haliburton, and Desmond Bane. Every draft has guys teams whiffed on.
See everyone, snark (“boy”) into deliberately misreading my words that we all can read. My parameters were “teams who passed on SGA” it has nothing to do with who they picked. Skill issue on your end lil bro (see I can do it too). Yes man, I know how good Trae and Luka, as well as like a dozen other stars of that draft are. Your wannabe “take down” of me just falls apart. You shouldnt argue with someone spitting facts.
“Precious”? No one has been more vocal about how bad GSW were at drafting for 10 years than me. They picked Jacob Evans over Jalen Brunson for crying out loud. Bob Myers is not in a FO right now because he was mid, he kinda fumbled Steph’s prime if you are talking to me.
Davey you passed on Larry Bird….still, Portland passed on Larry and MJ. That’s pretty special all time right there. Most have made some serious mistakes and oh yeah, Knox is garbage. Wiseman a no.2 pick, oouch.
Larry Bird hadn’t graduated from college. Every team passed on him. Wiseman just needs more playing time. Bigs always take longer to develop. It is basically an NBA rule.
The Celtics could have draft the Greek Freak but drafted KO. Everyone could have Jokic. But yahoo the Knicks suck at drafting.
14 teams passed on Giannis.
But the Celtics are the only ones who live in your head apparently.
“But yahoo the Knicks suck at drafting.”
To be more clear, Phil Jackson and Steve Mills sucked at drafting. Leon Rose has been pretty good.
Still 25 and put in the work in the G League. Love seeing these guys not giving up on their dreams.
He’s made 26M so far. I think he’s not giving up on the cash.
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Dude sure does get lots of opportunities yet quality players are out of the league!
If they were quality players, they would still be in the league.
This to me means they have no faith in Gui Santos, not that I’m saying Kevin Knox doesn’t fit in that spot…I just think with only a couple of spots, you might want to shore up that 2/3 spot, but especially if he’ll actually play, he could be good for them between Jimmy and Draymo da, or next to Kuminga
I think it means they need to fill a roster spot, they know him, and he has the right price tag. end on story.
It’s not about faith in anyone, they literally need 2 more players ASAP and this is one way to satisfy that necessity. Knox might not even play at all unless garbage time.