Ehe growth of Golden State Warriors in the last decade it has been enormous both from a sporting and economic point of view. their owners, Joe Lacob and Peter GuberThey bought the franchise in 2010 for 450 million and now it is worth 5,600becoming the second most valuable in the NBA behind the New York Knicks (5.800) and ahead of Los Angeles Lakers (5.500). And in the last eight years have conquered four rings (2015, 2017, 2018 y 2022).
But all that glitters is not gold on the San Francisco team. Success comes at too high a price, even for a franchise as thriving as the Warriors.. Your players increasingly want to win more money and they will have to make bobbin lace to satisfy everyone. For now, they have the highest-paid player in the NBA on their roster, Stephen Curry ($48 million a year) and the tenth best salary, Klay Thompson (40,6).
The problem is that now Draymond Greenthe third pillar of the Warriors’ successes, has already dropped that wants the maximum salary on his next renewal. To this is added that the hatching of Jordan Poole y Andre Wigginskeys in achieving the last ring, will force the team to also give him thehe maximum salary to at least one of them. And of course the accounts do not come out.
The owners do not want to exceed the salary limit
The owners are not so willingsuffer a bleed in the ‘luxury tax’ or luxury taxwhich penalizes teams that exceed the salary limit forcing them to pay extra money to the NBA that is distributed among the rest of the teams. If they spend between 0 and 5 million they must pay $1.5 for each dollar over. Between 5 and 10 million, $1.75 for each extra dollar, between 10 and 15 million would be $2.5, between 15 and 20 million, $3.25 for each dollar. And the tax will increase by $0.50 for every 5 million more. For example the team that exceeds between 20 and 25 million the tax its rate will be 3.75 dollars for each dollar to go over the limit.
One of the solutions what the Warriors are considering, as revealed by The Athletic is to lower Klay Thompson’s salary, who barely played the last two seasons due to a serious injury. An absence that, involuntarily, has caused Poole and Wiggins multiply their importance and their market value. the warriors They desperately need one of their two leaders to take a pay cut.and the one pointed to is Klay Thompson.
Possible pay cut to Klay Thompson,
its market value depreciated after his long convalescence from the injury and despite signing some good games, he has not been the same as before. His defense, his movements and his success from the perimeter have suffered. Y the Warriors expect him to take that pay cut on the grounds that he himself, after winning the ring, ensured that he would not play for another team or for another coach who was not Steve Kerr. It remains to be seen if he is willing to sacrifice part of your payroll to keep the team block.
The salary limit tightening caused the Warriors to be forced to release Gary Payton II and Otto Porter Jr. to avoid paying a large amount of luxury taxes . In fact, with the departure of both Between salaries and luxury tax, the Warriors are estimated to have saved $60.7 million.. Now they have to make another difficult decision, which is to hand over a oferta mxima a Andrew Wiggins o a Jordan Poole.
Draymond Green wants to renew for the maximum contract
And to this is added another considerable problem: Draymond Green wants a maximum contract in his next renewal according to revealed The Athletic. He considers himself a full member of the Warriors hard core, along with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, which has made it possible to win four titles in eight years. On August 3, it would already be available to sign a four-year, $138.4 million contract. Including the next season, a maximum extension will secure Green 164.2 million the next five seasons.
may green He doesn’t have star stats, but he’s a defensive beast and one of the heavyweights in the locker room.. He has two years left of the maximum extension he signed in 2019. He has a guaranteed contract for next season, in which he will earn $25.8 million. And a player option of 27.6 million for the 2023-2024 season.
Unfeasible to support so many high contracts
Give them a maximum contract along with the salary they already receive Stephen Curry y Klay Thompsonin addition to the upward contracts that they must sign a Wiggins y/o a Poole plus the one that the other young people could demand in the future nor seems viable for the franchise. The Warriors have a very difficult decision on their hands.
Joe Lacob, one of the owners of the Warriors, during a game for his team.
Joe Lacobthe billionaire owner of the Warriors It’s clear to him: “Everyone wanted at the beginning of the year, I know, we would trade all these young players and these draft picks and go find a star … I know what we did was a little risky, but I believed that if we were going to win this year, how far we were going to go would be determined by how good Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green were.. Obviously the rest of the guys too, but those three, that’s where the money is, “she said after winning the ring in an intervention on the Point Forward podcast.
I don’t want to fall off a cliff like other teams do when they really go all-in, they don’t have young players and they don’t have draft options, it’s not a good strategy.
“So, at the end of the day, what we don’t want to do… the only thing I can’t and won’t tolerate is not competing for championships.”I added. “I don’t want to fall off a cliff like other teams do when they really go all-in, they don’t have young players and they don’t have draft options, I just don’t think that’s a good strategy,” he explained. The hot potato is in your hands, because pleasing all its stars may not be possible.
