Originally posted by SofaKing:
Originally posted by nothing03:
Mcadoo is back. Not sure why they didn't get Mo over Mcadoo.
https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/751484303540760577
Curious to hear what the contract details are. This article broke down an interesting scenario:
http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/news/kevin-durant-contract-warriors-salary-cap-signing-free-agency-golden-state/1pjr53ldjp74d1lj455zv9tn8o
The more interesting machinations come in the rest of the roster spots. Golden State decided to make both James Michael McAdoo and Ian Clark unrestricted free agents, but they have Early Bird rights on McAdoo, meaning they can go over the salary cap (and his minimum hold) for a contract could be worth as much as the estimated average player salary ($6.191 million for this season) that must run at least two seasons. The Warriors cannot do that for Clark because he only has one year with the team but can with veteran swingman Brandon Rush, who started part of last season while Barnes was hurt.
Signing both to the maximum allowable for the first season with a team-friendly non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed second season would give the Warriors two additional quality bench players on serious raises who are also potential contracts to trade by the February deadline or next summer if the right situation presents itself.
Missed out on setting up a scenario like that with Rush since he signed with Minnesota, but maybe we did something like that with McAdoo.
I'm more excited that we kept Ian Clark
Think he can have a really solid season off the bench with Barbosa out the way