People hated on the Lakers when they did the exact same thing. People claim they like loyal players but clown on organizations when they treat those loyal players with a final payday

Yup, especially that last point about business with Klutch. They won’t forget something like that, especially to a franchise great

Dray declined his option as a favor to the team. The team would have to be crazy to leave him hanging.

I don’t hate that they’re going re-sign him, I just hate the salary structure in general

Edit: I meant the warrior’s salary structure, not draymonds

I don’t see much issue with the end result but isn’t this kind of cap manipulation? Basically an under the table agreement to help them free up flexibility? Would Draymond have risked opting out of he didn’t know they’d end up paying him the same?

\(27.7 - \)3.9m

probably sonething like ²⁄₄₀ or ³⁄₅₀

Probably the ²⁄₈ LeBron took in Philly

The artist formerly known as Melton

it’s only shortened at reddit

He gets paid a shit ton so it’s okay he’s clearly content with it

What realistic moves could haveWarriors made to be competitive with Steph? They tried with Butler, they struck out with LeBron, so what else?

I remember Kobe getting talked on for taking the extension he took because it was part of the reason why the end of his career he was surrounded by those players

He deserved it 100%, but when you pay your aging superstar that much of the salary cap, its going to have consequences.

He’s good man, his legacy is set and he’s getting paid lol

For everything he’s done for that franchise, shit makes me sad

No he’s not, but if he was, a young coachable player with athleticism who plays D would unironically not be a bad bet (key word being coachable).

*Almost 7 times but yeah

its the same money he declined to give us flexibility
we aren’t backdooring dray

Man has made hundreds of millions of dollars, four rings and a gold medal 

“Poor Steph”

A handshake deal that he was going to opt out to give them room to sign LeBron and if it didn’t happen, he’d just re-sign because he wanted to opt in anyway.

Steph loves draymond they’re good friends. He wants to be around his friends. 0 problem here

If you’re talking about the “steph is putting pressure on the warriors to become a contender” article a few days ago, he actually says he understands the warriors situation in the article and it’s the op of that post making some bullshit up for the title and hoping no one calls him out, which worked because all the attention went to dudes who only read the title calling steph delusional

This is just the player option Draymond declined. And this deal has no bearing on anything that may happen after next season where they currently have only \(54 million in salaries. \)20 million of which goes to KP where only \(3 million is guaranteed. Assuming a Podz extension of \)20 million, at most they’ll have \(74 million spent. Which is about \)110 million below the cap assuming no increases. If Steph really wants to win here, he can take a pay cut on his next contract like LeBron just did. Hell both Draymond and Jimmy could if they want to but I’m not holding my breath for Jimmy to take anything less than he can get

Clearly this was promised to him before he declined his player option for the exact same amount

It’s just under 7 Lebron’s worth 

? Holy misconception of how NBA player salaries work.

How’s it an overpay? It’s how much he was set to make this season from his original contract.

he could’ve just picked up his player option for this amount lmao calm down

He opted out to give them room for LeBron with the agreement that he’d re-sign for the whole thing if they didn’t land him because he didn’t want to opt out anyway.

Warriors had a competent FO at one point as well.

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