Swaggy P is headed to the Bay.
The Warriors have agreed to a one-year, $5.2 million deal with former Lakers guard Nick Young, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Free agent guard Nick Young has agreed to a one-year, $5.2M deal with the Golden State Warriors, agent Mark Bartelstein tells ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017
Young is now the 13th player the Warriors have under contract (or who will soon be under contract) for next season. With JaVale McGee and Zaza Pachulia both still unsigned, it is expected that the final two roster spots will be filled with centers.
With bench options Ian Clark and Matt Barnes also likely leaving in free agency, Young joins the recently signed Omri Casspi to provide scoring for Golden State’s second unit. Young averaged 13.2 points per game last year under former Warriors assistant Luke Walton and posted an exceptional 40.4 percentage from deep, while playing 25 minutes a game. Golden State has used their full taxpayer mid-level exception, $5.2 million in total, to sign Young. According to Bobby Marks of ESPN, however, the Young signing will cost a total of $18.5 million when factoring in luxury taxes. The Warriors will likely sign their next two players to minimum contracts.
If Warriors add Zaza at Non-Bird ($3.5M), Bell ($816K) and McGee/other ($1.5M) at min for 15 players: $139M salary + $45M tax = $184M total.
— Albert Nahmad (@AlbertNahmad) July 5, 2017
According to Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News, Young was higher on the Warriors list than former Sixth Man of the Year Jamal Crawford, who is also a free agent.
As I indicated yesterday, Nick Young was much, much higher on the Warriors’ wish-list than Jamal Crawford. If Crawford was on it at all.
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) July 5, 2017
Assuming Young is filling Clark’s role, he will likely share the floor with Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and David West at the beginning of the second quarter.
