SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors didn’t have a media day on Monday.
No, they held a roster reveal social gathering as a substitute.
Do you know Pat Spencer was on the Dubs’ roster?
I didn’t, as a result of he wasn’t when he got here as much as the dais of the press convention room inside Chase Middle. He had signed roughly 10 minutes beforehand, however the Warriors had but to ship out the press launch. It didn’t come for one more hour.
What a enjoyable shock!
Spencer was certainly one of 10 — sure, 10 — gamers the Warriors introduced they signed on Monday. It’s straightforward to see how his paperwork was misplaced within the shuffle.
No, this isn’t regular. It’s not even remotely near regular.
However heaven forbid anybody faux that it wasn’t.
Draymond Inexperienced began his presser carrying humorous glasses that stated “BOOM” on them. Jimmy Butler made positive to get in a number of unabashed plugs for his espresso firm. Steph Curry maintained his politician’s demeanor till the very finish of his media availability.
The message: Nothing to see right here, the whole lot is ok.
But it surely’s not. It is perhaps in a number of days, however as of Monday — the official begin of the Warriors’ season — issues are wildly off.
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These 10 gamers the Warriors signed on Monday had been the ten gamers that the Warriors may signal. They’re league-minimum-contract guys. Gamers dedicated to the Warriors however poised to make greater than that, like De’Anthony Melton and Al Horford, weren’t in attendance. (Although a Melton presser was on the books for a little bit bit. Whoops!)
And all of it stems from Jonathan Kuminga’s contract negotiations, which have now dragged into the season.
The fifth-year ahead continues to be, technically, a restricted free agent. However the remainder of the NBA is closed for enterprise on that entrance, leaving the Warriors and Kuminga to determine it out on their very own.
Nevertheless, as a result of the Warriors and Kuminga can’t strike a deal, Golden State stays in Stage 1 of the offseason, even because the season has successfully begun.
Perhaps they’ll type it out by Wednesday night time’s qualifying provide deadline. Perhaps not.
However the Dubs can’t signal Horford and Melton (and, who is aware of, possibly there’s one other couple of surprises within the providing) till Kuminga’s new deal or $8 million qualifying provide is formally on the books for the season.
And so we wait.
And so the Warriors stay incomplete. That’s not an announcement on Kuminga’s significance to the Warriors, however somewhat a factual assertion of roster-building.
However what a roster this shall be, proper?
“Hypothetically speaking, I like it. I love it,” Butler stated.
“Theoretically, having Al Horford can help,” Inexperienced stated.
“I think everything we do around here is unique… So [this] kind of adds to that journey,” Curry stated.
Steve Kerr and common supervisor Mike Dunleavy stated nothing on the hypothetical, theoretical, distinctive matter as a result of neither spoke at media day. Once more, completely regular. We’re having a good time over right here.
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The Warriors will observe all week earlier than their first of 5 preseason video games on Oct. 5 towards the Lakers. Maybe you may go right down to Chase Middle and get in a run — the Dubs are searching for our bodies till this Kuminga factor is resolved.
“We’ll be tired as hell going through practice,” Inexperienced stated. “That will be a distraction and that will suck because usually as a vet, you can go slide to the back and let (the young guys) get a couple more reps. You don’t get that privilege. That will suck.”
That’s precisely what a workforce stuffed with veteran gamers who ran out of gasoline final 12 months wants: a tricky, shorthanded coaching camp that may go away them “tired as hell” earlier than the 82-game common season begins Oct. 21.
However once more, there are not any points right here. That is all a part of the plan, proper?
Or maybe Draymond was making an attempt to inform us one thing with the glasses.
Enjoyable? No. These glasses had been an apt description of the Warriors’ present state.
All the pieces has gone BOOM.
