Potentially a free agent in a few months, Draymond Green will be one of the next files to watch on the Free Agency market. Is there a scenario where Draymond no longer wears the Warriors jersey from the 2023-24 season? The answer is yes, and Green himself says so.
Since the episode of the potato on Jordan Poole and the big contract extensions signed by the latter (128 million over four years) and Andrew Wiggins (109 million over four years), the future of Draymond Green in Golden State has somewhat darkened. The Warriors – who already found themselves with a luxury tax record last season (more than 170 million dollars) – will see their bill become more and more salty, enough to ask questions regarding the future of a 32-year-old player like Draymond who is potentially coming to the end of his contract.
Interviewed by Taylor Rooks from Bleacher Report concerning the scenario of a future which is written elsewhere than in Golden State, Green did not go there by four paths.
“Honestly, my days (at the Warriors) are numbered. I know it’s a business. We tend to think that someone owes us something for what we have accomplished. You have to be stupid to think that. It’s like you’re looking to be heartbroken, to be disappointed. No, it’s better to say to yourself, ‘let me learn this business’. If you don’t know the business, you may be taken aback.
I would love to stay here forever. But I understand the luxury tax, I understand that young people who ride must be paid. I understand all those things.”
“Quite frankly, the writing’s on the wall.”
Draymond Green on the possibility of not being a Warrior ????
(via @TaylorRooks) pic.twitter.com/dzIOaq5e2I
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 14, 2023
Here we almost have the impression that Draymond is preparing his departure, don’t you think?
A few weeks ago, Draymond Green said he was counting play another 4 or 5 years in the NBA and that he did not want to take for granted the opportunity to make his entire career in his heart franchise. But at the same time, his pitch was pretty similar: The NBA is big business and all good things come to an end. And every ending is a new beginning.
Could this new beginning take place in Los Angeles by chance? It’s a bit of a fashionable rumor regarding the Draymond case. With the Lakers who will have the salary margin to offer a nice contract to Green next summer, it is in any case a possibility to be taken seriously. Especially when you know the love that Green has for his friend LeBron…
“There has never been a better face of the NBA, and I’m not sure there ever will be”
—@Money23Green on @KingJames pic.twitter.com/k7C2PvSy6d
— The Volume (@TheVolumeSports) January 6, 2023
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Source texte : Bleacher Report
