{"id":262643,"date":"2025-09-29T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/262643\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:42:09","slug":"gary-payton-ii-deanthony-melton-set-to-join-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/262643\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Payton II, De\u2019Anthony Melton set to join Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 A pair of familiar veteran guards are in line to bolster the Warriors depth at that position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beloved defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/09\/28\/al-horford-warriors-nba-free-agency-celtics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1972460411804114996\">ary Payton II and fellow former Warrior De\u2019Anthony Melton<\/a> have both agreed to resign with the team, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported on Sunday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two have long been linked to Golden State. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/09\/28\/al-horford-warriors-nba-free-agency-celtics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veteran center Al Horford also committed to the Warriors<\/a> on Sunday morning, according to Charania, but none of the players have been officially signed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are still negotiating with restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga, and no deals are expected to be finalized until that situation has been resolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga has until Wednesday to pick up his qualifying offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Payton, 32, is the son of Skyline High legend and current Alameda College basketball coach Gary Payton.<\/p>\n<p>Known commonly as GP2, he played 15 minutes a game last season, when he averaged 6.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game. He has played the majority of the last five season sin the Bay Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melton, 27, played six games for the Warriors last season, averaging 10.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists while being a pesky defender.<\/p>\n<p>His season was cut short by an ACL tear on Nov. 20, and he was then part of a package traded to the Nets for Dennis Schroeder and a 2025 second-round pick that would eventually be flipped for the rights to rookie Alex Toohey.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors\u2019 wing rotation now consists of those two, plus Jimmy Butler III, Buddy Hield, Moses Moody and Brandin Podziemski.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reserve forward Gui Santos re-signed with the team just before free agency, and rookie second round pick Will Richard reporteldly agreed to a multi-year deal with the Warriors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Training camp begins on Tuesday, and the team\u2019s first preseason game is on Sunday at Chase Center against the Lakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 A pair of familiar veteran guards are in line to bolster the Warriors depth at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":262644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[276,3140,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-262643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}