What do Warriors do now?

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00:00Let's go to BPA, who's on the line with Willard and Dibs.

00:03What up, BPA?

00:04What are you doing?

00:06Just driving home from work.

00:10Yeah, the Nets were, that was really the only team that had cap space.

00:14And that probably takes that off the board for Kaminga.

00:18None of those other teams have cap space to give it back.

00:21So he's going to have to do a sign of trade if he wants to, you know,

00:25make a contract, and it's obviously in his best interest to start sooner

00:30rather than later, because the longer he waits,

00:33the more of the dominoes fall and his options are gone.

00:36So I expect something to happen pretty quick.

00:40Miami or Chicago, I agree, are probably the two most likely.

00:44And, yeah, I think it will make, you know, like, I don't know,

00:48how would you feel about Wiggins back for Kaminga?

00:52Personally, I'd take that.

00:55I don't hate it.

00:56I don't hate it because they would play Wiggins,

00:59and Wiggins would, like, he would fit right in without any issue

01:03next to Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry and whatnot.

01:05He already has.

01:07I know, obviously, not with Butler, but you get what I'm saying.

01:09BPA, thanks.

01:10I mean, go ahead.

01:11No, I'm just going to say, BPA, maybe he could stick and stay

01:14because there's more breaking news.

01:16It's flying in.

01:17Yeah, there is a lot.

01:19There's a few more that have come in.

01:20First and foremost, the Rockets have gone and done it again.

01:24They have brought in yet another player.

01:26This is free agent center Clint Capella,

01:29now on a three-year, $21.5 million deal with the Houston Rockets,

01:35and free agent guard Karis LeVert,

01:38a two-year, $29 million deal with the Detroit Pistons.

01:42The Pistons, that's an interesting one.

01:44That's an interesting one as they get a little bit deeper,

01:48a little bit more experience.

01:49It might also be, you know, let's get another wing in case Malik Beasley

01:54never plays again.

01:56Whoa.

01:56You know what I mean?

01:57Yep.

01:57Like, I don't know, but anyway, those are some interesting kind of B minus C plus level moves.

02:04Yeah, and many people around Dub Nation were interested in Capella.

02:09Sure.

02:09And I don't know if that's the perfect fit, like you were saying before about DeAndre Ayton.

02:15I don't know if Capella is necessarily the right fit,

02:18but the price point of $7 million a year,

02:21less money than what Kevon Looney is getting from New Orleans.

02:24Well, and to reiterate that, if you're just joining us, yes, what Dibbs just said,

02:28Kevon Looney, a two-year, $16 million deal to go to the New Orleans Pelicans.

02:33He'll put on a different uniform for the first time in his career.

02:36The other big deal of the last hour or so, Michael Porter Jr.

02:40and a future first going to Brooklyn in exchange for Cam Johnson.

02:45I do think, as always, right, and BPA just brought this up.

02:49All right, let's talk about for a minute the idea of Brooklyn

02:52has now been taken off of the table with regard to Kaminga

02:56because Porter Jr. makes a lot more money than does Cam Johnson.

03:01So Brooklyn just used up a bunch more of their cap space,

03:05which they did on a previous deal as well.

03:08I never really believed that Brooklyn was going to make a big offer to Jonathan Kaminga.

03:13BPA's not wrong.

03:14It takes it off the table.

03:15But here's what I would say.

03:18Golden State Warriors are not dumb.

03:19They would not be in this position right now if they were worried about a team

03:25coming in with a massive free agent offer for Kaminga.

03:28They would not have allowed this to get to 3 o'clock

03:31if they were worried that that was going to happen.

03:33My opinion.

03:34My read.

03:35If they thought Brooklyn was weighing in the weeds

03:37and at 3 o'clock today they were going to do five years and $170 million,

03:43then the Warriors would have done something a lot earlier.

03:46For sure.

03:46That would have put the Warriors in a bad spot.

03:48We've heard from everyone we know that the number one thing the Warriors don't want to do

03:53is have Kaminga walk and get nothing in return.

03:56They absolutely don't want to do that.

03:58So they've been reading the situation,

04:00and I think they're aware about things such as whether or not Jonathan's going to get a big offer somewhere.

04:07So if Brooklyn was the only team that could scare you on that level,

04:10well, they probably knew damn well that that wasn't going to happen.

04:13And now it's pretty much official.

04:15So does that deal give the Warriors a little bit of leverage in the conversation?

04:21Probably, yeah.

04:22Now maybe both sides already knew that was coming.

04:24Right.

04:25But it absolutely does.

04:27Like, again, Jonathan's leverage in this situation is, A, he's got time,

04:32and, B, what he's hoping for is that someone will make him an offer that the Warriors don't want to match.

04:37That's the leverage he has.

04:39It feels to me, the way the Warriors are playing this, like they're comfortable that's not going to happen.

04:43And I think the more you look at things like the Santee Aldama contract,

04:48it came in just under $18 million a year for three years.

04:51Somebody who is the same age and plays about as much.

04:55Now, Kaminga, I think, is a better player,

04:58and he's got perhaps a little bit more upside than Santee Aldama.

05:01But the fact that that contract came in three years at a little less than $18 million per

05:06tells me that the Warriors are not trembling, to your point.

05:10They're probably not thinking there's a team out there giving Kaminga five years and $150 or whatever.

05:16The price point for Jonathan Kaminga is low enough, most likely, in the marketplace

05:21that the Warriors can make a decision on a sign-and-trade or just a sign and keep and trade later.

05:28Sorry.

05:29Yes, I agree on that.

05:30Like, the read of the situation right now is so interesting because I do think you see a couple deals like this,

05:38and it leans you in the direction of, okay, advantage Warriors, Jonathan's not going to get what he wants.

05:45However, however, the advantage Jonathan has is he can still keep playing this out as long as possible,

05:53and as names keep coming off the board, that's going to make the Warriors very uncomfortable.

05:58So it's not like this is all to the advantage of the Warriors.

06:03The bottom line is somebody needs to blink, and pretty soon, or else you're just going to head down this road

06:10where the Warriors can't sign anyone, and Jonathan can't get an offer,

06:13and you're probably going to end up back in bed together in a way that neither side really seems to want.

06:18And the way that would be is if nobody else gives him an offer and you decide that you don't want to do anything long-term with Kaminga,

06:26you could have him play on his tender, the offer that you tendered him, which is one year and $7.9 million,

06:34and then he becomes an unrestricted free agent next year.

06:37But even if it goes that way, Mark, that would be a very uncomfortable reunion, so to speak,

06:44where Kaminga wanted big money, you wanted to kind of trade him, and you've shopped him repeatedly,

06:50nothing happened, and so it's a tail between both of your legs, and now he has to come back and play on a low offer?

06:57Nobody wants that.

06:58Nobody wants that.

06:59And this is probably part of what Ramona Shelburne was telling us a week ago when she said this could get messy.

07:07By the way, I just say this, I think it already is.

07:10That's what I think.

07:12Yeah.

07:12I think it's already messy.

07:14Yeah.

07:14Because we're here.

07:16We're here.

07:16It's 4.40 on Monday, and there is A, no resolution, B, no resolution in sight, and C...

07:24Potentially.

07:25Potentially.

07:26Yeah.

07:26Yeah, it could break in two minutes.

07:28It could.

07:28But names are flying off the board, and some of them were interesting names.

07:33I don't know what level the Warriors actually wanted those people, but names that they've been linked to.

07:39And then again, the reports, and I get this, this is just leverage play, and this is posturing,

07:45but the reports are suggesting right now that, you know, this is going to take a while.

07:50This is going to take a while.

07:51And I don't know if the Warriors have a while, because Oklahoma City's really good.

07:55The Rockets have signed two more players today.

07:59Yep.

07:59Clint Capella, Dorian Finney-Smith.

08:01The Rockets are getting better.

08:03The Nuggets just acquired Cam Johnson.

08:06Come on now.

08:07Come on now.

08:08The West is getting real good.

08:10It was already real good.

08:11Yeah.

08:12It was getting real good.

08:13Real fast.

08:14And the T-Wolves brought back Nas Reed, and that happened earlier.

08:17And Julius Randle.

08:19So the T-Wolves are still a really good team, and, you know, the Lakers are making some, you know,

08:25moves around the fringes, so to speak.

08:27But when you're the Warriors, you have probably three big needs, and, you know,

08:32some of the needs can't be fulfilled right now.

08:35So, let's go.

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