{"id":999227,"date":"2026-08-14T00:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/999227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:42:28","slug":"warriors-notes-podziemski-green-roster-dunleavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/999227\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Notes: Podziemski, Green, Roster, Dunleavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the media on Tuesday, <strong>Warriors<\/strong> general manager <strong>Mike Dunleavy Jr.<\/strong> made it clear that retaining guard <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/podzibr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandin Podziemski<\/a><\/strong> is a priority for the organization, writes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7507061\/2026\/08\/11\/steph-curry-contract-warriors-future-nba\/?redirected=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Friedell of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Podziemski, the 19th overall pick of the 2023 draft, is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/players-eligible-for-rookie-scale-extensions-in-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eligible for a rookie scale extension<\/a> until the day before the regular season begins and will be on track for restricted free agency in 2027 if a new deal isn\u2019t reached. Dunleavy said he\u2019d prefer to extend Podziemski rather than have his contract situation drag out until next summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s important to us,\u201d Dunleavy said. \u201cWe really value Brandin. He\u2019s a player that for all the things he does well, most importantly, impacts winning. When he\u2019s on the court, we\u2019re a better team. So, any time you got a guy like that, you want to be able to keep him around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we have multiple ways to do it through extension and restricted free agency and all that, but we\u2019d prefer to get it done sooner than later. We really like Brandin. He\u2019s done a terrific job for us, and he\u2019s a big part of our program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more on the Warriors:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"longlis\">\n<li>Dunleavy told reporters, including Friedell, that he hopes <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greendr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Draymond Green<\/a><\/strong> will spend the rest of his career with Golden State. After declining his $27.7MM player option for 2026\/27 to give the team the opportunity to pursue <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jamesle01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LeBron James<\/a><\/strong>, Green re-signed with the Warriors on essentially the exact same contract. \u201cDraymond\u2019s been an incredible partner for our organization, both on and off the court, for his career,\u201d Dunleavy said. \u201cThis summer was no different with his ability to opt out of the deal; it gave us some wiggle room, some financial flexibility. And we worked together on that, and I don\u2019t think there was ever a doubt he\u2019d be back, but he\u2019s always been about the team \u2026 he\u2019s no different than Steph in the sense of we hope he retires a Warrior. We want to make that happen, he wants to make it happen, so we\u2019ll see where things go. Our No. 1 priority right now, Draymond will say this, Steph will say this, everybody here will say this, is to win.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>While his comments <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/08\/gm-dunleavy-confident-curry-will-re-sign-with-warriors.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">about<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/strong>, Podziemski and Green were certainly notable, Dunleavy also said the team plans to have a full 15-man standard roster to open the regular season, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/jimmy-butler-moses-moody-injury-analysis\/1956144\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dalton Johnson of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>. As Johnson notes, the Warriors have opened the past few seasons with an open roster spot, but Dunleavy thinks that will change in 2026\/27. \u201cI think we\u2019ll go 15, based on the injuries to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moodymo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moses (Moody)<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy (Butler)<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d Dunleavy said. \u201cThat puts us at 13 on opening night \u2013 available players. To stick with 14, a lot of that was kind of avoiding tax and apron issues. I think right now we put ourselves in a position to carry 15 on opening night, and would be pretty surprised if we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>As Luke Adams <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/08\/the-teams-most-impacted-by-hard-caps-in-2026-27.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote earlier this week<\/a> in a Front Office Original, carrying two more veteran\u2019s deals would leave the Warriors just $348K below their second-apron hard cap. Signing second-round pick <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonesla03.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-13_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lajae Jones<\/a><\/strong> to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/nba-minimum-salaries-for-2026-27.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rookie minimum deal<\/a> would save the Warriors some money, Johnson observes, but Golden State also has an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/2026-27-nba-two-way-contract-tracker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">open two-way spot<\/a>. Dunleavy said the front office is still evaluating the team\u2019s back-end roster spots. \u201cThose are some of the things we\u2019re still working through,\u201d Dunleavy said. \u201cThe 14, 15 spots, the two-ways, those will all kind of unfold here in the next few weeks, leading up to and into camp. Stay tuned on all that stuff. We\u2019ll have a solution by opening night, but nothing in stone yet.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Dunleavy claimed on Tuesday that he saw a \u201cpath\u201d to the Warriors winning the championship next year if things break the right way. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/mike-dunleavy-path-finals-championship\/1955960\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a> says Dunleavy\u2019s optimism is \u201cFantasy Lane,\u201d arguing that there are more reasons to believe the team will be under .500 again than in contention after finishing last season with a 37-45 record and largely running back the same roster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. made it clear that retaining guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[105764,2389,362850,400210,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-999227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brandin-podziemski","tag-draymond-green","tag-lajae-jones","tag-mike-dunleavy-jr","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117091090273492395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999227","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=999227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}