A Detailed Analysis of Who's Actually Making the Final Golden State Warriors Roster

on a very short and hopefully very sweet episode of golden days I'm going to recap and review who exactly is on the Warriors roster there's been a discussion out there that I've caught a whiff of regarding who's actually making this team 15 players is the max you can put on an NBA roster who are those 15 right now while we wait for hopefully a big deal to come down M Marin in let that's that's the dream that's the hope but as of right now he's not on the team so who is let's break it down next and then in just a moment we're gonna switch gears and launch an episode of the Rick Barry show with Hall of Famer Rick Barry I'll get into how you can join us live for that the recording will be right here on this channel but let's talk about the Warriors roster who's on this damn team let's break it down this is the golden day that is it for us today and we will leave you with a I can't do it well do it live it do it live and things suck let's go in a minute I'mma need a Sentimental Man a woman to PP me up come on and break me off me cuz I get what I want and I like what I oh when you hear that music think it's word golden of the word Golden Days hey now how is it going everybody I'm Sarat is the host of this program you can follow me on threads this thing strained out here you can follow me on Instagram at dog wild and I'm over on that Cesspool of an excuse for a decent social media platform Twitter or whatever they calling it these days I'm there as well at Surf journalist if you want to engage but I try I don't I'm not there often so if you want to reach out to me if you want me to actually read uh whatever it is you want me to read tag me DM me on threads or Instagram how the hell is everyone doing Allan elizer is that how you pronounced your last name saying what's up let's go dubs right back at you Douglas mikees saying X is awesome yeah so it's for Chan I guess by uh by your reasoning um no X is not awesome anything where you can just write whatever the hell you want uh in objectivity factual accuracy be damned no I'm not going to say that's awesome um Stephen Lang in the chat saying finally here for a live show let's go here's the thing this is gonna be a very short show in about 15 to 20 minutes uh I'm gonna be jumping on my phone this little thing right here because Hall of Famer Rick Barry and I we host live episodes of the Rick Berry show on What's called the miked up app and one of the beautiful things about that program is Rick and I play your audio recordings if you upload them man Douglas mice look at you so freedom of look at bringing up the freedom of speech thing uh yeah so I guess you're just perfectly okay with just saying whatever dumb inaccurate untrue things are on your mind but to you that's all that matters right never mind the the horribly negative implications of propaganda and how much it influences Society for the bad and I guess sometimes the good um I'm not against freedom of speech but I'm also against literal lies and and propaganda and and half-truths um and here's the problem Douglas Mike saying yeah let dumb people expose themselves the problem is if you don't have fact Checkers how do you know who the dumb people are how do you know what's true and what's not you're putting a little too much faith in humanity my friend um anyway so let's talk about the warriors real fast here uh because there's some chat there's some discussion some chatter out there about who exactly is uh making this team right now and I showed this graphic on a previous show um regarding the current roster and let me adjust how I look here real fast there we go this is the best I can do for now this is if you're watching this on YouTube this is the graphic that shows uh 12 of the 15 Golden State Warriors roster positions filled up all right so Stephen Curry's an obvious one Brandon pky buddy hee Gary Payne II DeAnthony Melton Moses Moody as of right now and I really pity Moses Moody because this is a kid who can play but he has a coach who just has no faith in him and so I really do hope he's traded just for his sake I digress uh Kyle Anderson AKA slow-mo Andrew Wiggins Jonathan kaminga Draymond Green cavon Looney and Trace Jackson Davis those are 12 of the 15 maximum slots for the Golden State Warriors now Douglas Mike's then asks is Lindy waters on the roster guaranteed yes that is a guaranteed contract that OKC extended to him last year so when the Warriors made that trade he's number 13 you're absolutely correct now zero brings up and this is where it starts getting a little tricky Quinton post this is a player who the warriors uh spent their number 53 draft pick to acquire from the Boston College that's who he played for last year played four years there and the thing with second with second round draft picks and this is why Trace Jackson Davis fell as far as he did last year most teams do not like offering guaranteed contracts to second round picks Trace Jackson Davis's Representatives let every team know in the draft last year do not pick me if you're not going to give me a guaranteed deal it scared teams away did not scare thankfully the Golden State Warriors away they knew what they were getting with them and so they were like we'll give you a guaranteed deal come on over and they did so with quitt and post that's the conundrum he does not have a guaranteed deal right now there's been some speculation that maybe the Warriors what they like to do is give them a two-way deal which is much more customary with second round picks but as of right now they've got all three of those slots filled right so with Lindy Waters you have 13 spots guaranteed now GE Santos makes 14 and this is where it's going to start getting very tricky because as of right now if you want to offer that number 15 to Quinton post it's there and I I would guess that's what they want to do but if you but if you offer them a guaranteed deal now you're maxed out now you can't explore anyone else and maybe that's not a bad thing but that is the quick conundrum that the Golden State Warriors face uh and I'm still bummed out that the team moved on from Lester konz I thought he could actually play uh but he's not making this final Ross so as of right now what's likely going to happen because the Warriors have three two-way players signed right now Pat Spencer right who I I I can't imagine him ever getting a guaranteed deal I could be wrong on that that's just me uh spitballing and he's an awesome two-way player I mean the guy the kid has his moments I have nothing bad to say about Pat Spencer and side note I played college lacrosse so I have a little affinity for the fact that the dude can is an incredible lacrosse player I was a midi Once Upon a Time for humbled State University The Lumberjacks they now call themselves Cal Poly humble um anyway so Pat Spencer's got one of those uh two-way spots you got ree beakman a two-time ACC defensive player of the year on the roster taking up that second 2A slot and from what I've seen in summer league from this kid love him when you're talking about who can someday replace Gary Payne II that's a candidate folks but then again I also thought that way about quiner Weatherspoon and who knows what he's up to now and yeah g Martinez saying I'm an this is inside not by the way this is always been like from the moment I started working in sports media back when I was 20 21 years old and you know if you're if you care about my background that's how that's how I got into this I was an intern at KBR while I was still in college um and one of the first things that really stuck out to me and this is dating way back this is like 1999 2000 was damn there were not a lot of athletes covering Athletics and I've always Pride on myself on at least trying to be athletic right I mean obviously I'm 5'10 I'm never going to be anything professional but um oh and the traveling aritz bringing up the fact that you just met Jonathan kaminga at Summer League that is awesome um I would publ you know what here we got a few minutes um I want to make this available if you want to come on the show arz and share your EXP experience uh the link is in the chat right now I would love to hear about that if you missed the cut yesterday uh the clip from from Stephen Curry's new podcast that I played supposedly and again we don't know when that was recorded but supposedly kaminga and Steph are playing together they're playing pick a ball in the summer um that's awesome you know I I those two developing chemistry is vitally important for how the warriors uh uh play this year and whether or not they succeed so erz jump on the show man please jump in and Stephen Lang you're absolutely right uh that uh that Pat Spencer is known as the best lacrosse player ever um so know Jim Brown the former football legend Hollywood Legend was also um uh a lacrosse player supposedly um traveling your credz saying that he's that Jonathan Kingo is more shy than you thought yeah he is he's a very quiet individual he's I I don't know what his personality type is but he seems to be more on the introverted side uh from my personal experience with them um KB Batista by the way saying good afternoon good afternoon right back to you um so and and I'm reading uh someone else is asking in the chat um where is that oh here Douglas Mike's again writing that you've heard the reason why they can't give quinnon post a roster spot is because they can't stay under the hard cap and there is some truth to that because right now there are a half million under uh the the the first apron which is their hard cap the moment they did a sign and trade that's they they got a hard cap for the first apron which is approximately 178 million you are correct at this moment in time they cannot Because unless he no I don't think they can because the the absolute minimum for for quent post is going to be close to a million dollars so I think that's all they could offer at the moment is a two-way spot they will own his rights regardless um but for a team that just that's thirsty for size that is desperate for some height out there uh never mind the fact that a stretch big like Quint post is exactly what the Warriors need um but if you make him a two-way player if you don't give him that guaranteed deal and maybe I'm looking too far ahead you he can't play in the postseason he's limited by the number of games he could play in the regular season um and and if you give him that two-way spot which as of right now Douglas you are correct they don't have enough cap space um then dayon plowden who's been one of the success stories of Summer League he's got to go and hopefully he'll he'll agree to a contract in in Santa Cruz but he'll be a free agent anyone can sign him um or you you have to move on from Pat Spencer or you have to move on from Reese beakman that is the conundrum that they find themselves at um traveling aritz let's bring you on the show brother how you doing man let me get this this this graphic out of the way so you were in in uh in Vegas did you get back are you still out there like where are you right now I can't hear you brother uh you got to turn your mic on my apologies there brother yeah we go every year I take the kids we do five days of summer Le been doing it for the last five years we absolutely love it um I have uh three girls 12 10 and five so that's why you see the travel in your key as we travel around the world we're having fun nice nice um it was a great time uh ran into kaminga this is funny so they were at the area and I have a kaminga Jersey right and uh me and my buddy Jeff who used to play ball D1 ball he looks like Jaylen Brown so it's funny we were walking through the area and I had my comingo jersey on he's like hey isn't that your boy and I turn around and it's kaminga and he sees me and the funny thing he sees my jersey and he points he goes and I was like hey good good to meet with you and uh there you know what it was he looked like a 19-year old kid you know you forget how young these guys are so I'm just like hey how you doing it's funny because I called him I said Monsur kaminga that's what I said I said K how are you he said oh bu you know um but very quiet very reserved but man he is big he is a lot bigger than you think he is yes he is that that stuck out to me too when I first uh saw him in person was like and that that is one of the few benefits of being in person I don't know if you agree with me or not like anytime I I'm I get a credential to go to a game I I don't sit in the media seats because to me you can see the action way better on a TV so I'm usually hiding out in the media area where they serve food and stuff like not even like within eyesight of the Court just because I can see it better but with that said being in person you also when you when you see these individuals in real time you get a much better perspective in terms of their their their size their physicality um like I remember when I saw Patrick Baldwin Jr two years ago in person I was like damn that's a big dude that is a huge individual and his shooting stroke was exemplary and I saw immediately the the appeal for drafting him of course that did not work out at all but and the same thing applies for Jonathan kaminga the guy is Big um and I start interrupt you but I just wanted to add that that tidbit go ahead no you're great um we sat down we we were sitting there I talked to him for a good five minutes um he was very nice very just very shy he was just like yeah you know very very quiet like this he'd be like yeah that's really cool like a very kind of soft voice um but you know I asked him I said you know what do you think this year and he said he's been working really hard with Steph um he doesn't think he's going to get traded um I don't think he's uh he's really excited for this year I I think he think this is his I think from the conversation we had I think he feels like this is the year he gets plain time and I think he's really excited to show what he can do that that's what I took away from it um I I really do and I laughed I was like I see you as the 25 and 10 guy and he laughed he goes yeah and I was like but you gota work on your rebounds he laughed goes I know I know so very you actually said that to him and and he laughed at all yeah I said it kidding I said it kidding but uh he was a great guy I'd tell you summer league was fantastic some of the takeaways we took away um a lot of people don't think the Warriors have a window I talked to a lot of people and uh you know you're there and you're able to sit with like I'll was s with like Tony Delk um there's a couple there's a lot of Agents there and we were there for Bron's uh speaking of bronny bronnie is not an NBA player I'm sorry that kid looked he looked as tall as me I'm 51 and I was like oh tiny he looks tiny if he's 6'1 he's barely SC but uh a lot of the agents we talked to were like you know the warrior season's done that the window is closed and so a lot of people were saying is this Steph's final year in Golden State because they just don't see a way how he's gonna win a title or he just gonna you know finish it out for the next two years um very interesting a lot of people's takes but nobody thought the Warriors aren even close to a championship I don't well right now I don't think so either I think right now they're worse than they were a year ago I I still don't know I mean look the and this is why you don't trade the farm when I say the farm I mean like kaminga pamy and Etc is the reason why you don't trade them for let's say hypothetically in this scenario Lowry Markin in is let's say you make that trade and then Steph who's 36 going on 37 gets injured what if Draymond gets injured like you're screwed under that scenario man like that that's why you need these young players to at least have hope man to give you something to look forward to for that next phase whereas if you give up kaminga and pods I mean I I single those two out as as the the Marque individuals with the most value what do you have left if Steph gets hurt and and I've reported before on this show that you know close source of mine with the Warriors he really thinks this is Steph's final two years man like and so you're you're saying that that's that are you are you getting that vibe from summer league as well from people like from the people you spoke with like they think this is Steph's final run with the Warriors yeah I think there was a couple agents sitting behind me you know you when you go to summer league which is great if you haven't been to Summer League take your family and go it's the best ticket in it's changed though man I went there in like 2011 and it was not like it is now dude this year was a little bit a little bit tame I think it's because most of the stars are an Olympic team so they didn't do NBA con this year but next year is supposed to be really good because uh Cooper flag is he was the big talk Cooper flag number one pick next year and there's I guess three or four of the people but um some of the agents that we were talking to regarding the Warriors and Steph was is he going to make it to the tread deadline so a lot of people were like if the Warriors get off to a bad start and they're just there's no future do you trade them and try to get picks at the at the deadline or you you wait till the following year so that was kind of a lot of the conversation because everybody's like Steph is amazing but is he amazing on the Warriors I don't know what are your what are your thoughts on that arz if you're like do you even entertain the idea of trading Stephen Curry like that's not a thought that's going to cross my mind but what do you think I'm opposite I would trade stuff I I last year I would have let Dre walk or I would have traded him to Detroit there's a lot of really good teams that are young so the problem I see with the Warriors is we're very young we're we're old right we have these old people and these young people but that's really not our problem the problem is the West is Young and they're getting better I mean wy's coming Denver's coming Minnesota's coming Houston's coming Shephard looked amazing out there um so there's a lot of teams it's not like we need one or two players to get over the hump we we need a whole new team I mean and I love step but I love Montana too you know and I loved rice too and if it were me and I was a GM I would trade Steph and try to get a hall and I would call pressie at Oklahoma City and I would say how would you like to get Steph Curry on Oklahoma City give me all those wonderful draft picks you got and try to get Steph another title with Oklahoma City is what I would do and I would go after Cooper flag and I would go after those people and build with Moody JK P jimsky maybe you get Cooper Rush next year or Cooper flag next year there's like I think are talking like six deep next year's draft yeah next year and we'll get into that at some point I'm going to I'm trying to get Christ and Peak on the program who to me of all the the evaluators out there of all the the individuals who make these mock drafts she is number one like I she rarely if ever misses I trust her analysis I'm gonna hopefully get her on to talk about that and so much more but um look I I don't disagree with your logic and I got to run here man if you don't I'm sorry to to cut this short or wrap it up but um I don't just scree with your logic man I I I I I would have had no problem letting go or trading Draymond Green I have no sentimentality for Klay Thompson moving on Steph is just he's so special dude like I I I don't want to see him in another uniform but at the same time I'm not g to argue with you about it because you're right if you want if success is the goal and it should be man in competitive sports like you you got to be Forward Thinking you gotta wor you got to think not just in the present but ahead and um Steph has a shitload of value right now dude you can get a lot for him um at the same time it's just for some reason the idea of see seeing him even if it's the Charlotte Hornets it just I don't like the idea of that man to me he's a warrior for life but at the same time I thought that way about Joe Montana too and then Steve Young came in and I loved Steve so we'll see we'll see man anything else you want to you want to mention before I move on I'm waiting for Rick Barry to get to to make an appearance so we can switch over to the miked up app and start the Rick Barry show but anything else on your mind AR for I just want to say it's so refreshing to see you back on when you weren't on the other uh platform and I looked for you I couldn't find you I was bummed I thought that you just quit so when I saw you on this new platform I'm very happy for you I was talking to you a couple podcasters out there so I wish you all the best and I'm a fan looking forward to more content come come come join me again soon okay when we have more time please you got it all right and I always love what you always love what you provide in the chat brother thank you so much man thank you thanks for sharing those thank you oh sorry I didn't mean to cut you off there but thank you so much for uh for the insights and uh just summer league look summer league again it's so different now like when I went in 2011 and I went like right when it started to get better I mean sub used to be just this desolate landscape I mean we're talking like the wastelands of NBA action dude like it was it was as sad of a scene as you could picture in Vegas dude like like you know $ five hookers like degenerate gamblers like you did not see former players roaming the stands it was empty it was depressing you could smell cigarettes in that Arena and it's it's night and day to what it is now now it's like it's classed up like eras just mentioned you see all this Talent showing up and and between players agents are negotiating big time there executives are hobnobbin so it is night and day from what it was to what it is now um anyway yeah and and as zero says the format's also changed for summer league big time so um yeah it's a scene man and one thing someone in the chat brought up Reese beakman in terms of why he hasn't been playing uh the the best I found from my research is that he's dealing with some sort of nagging injury nothing serious um but we have people uh who are fans of his from Virginia um who have been reaching out to Media asking where the hell is he man like we want to see him play for the Warriors and um he apparently it's some sort of small nagging injury that's not reported uh but uh that's that seems to be the case um in terms of why and then geese Santos is an individual I saw in the chat in terms of um a player that the team can move on from but again his deal from my understanding is it's guaranteed as well so you can't just cut them and then fall below the salary cap you got to make some deals so uh as of right now yeah Quinn post um is they can't give him the guaranteed contract at the moment the best you can do with them is a two-way deal um and we'll see what happens that's that's that's the long story short of this Log Jam the Warriors have with the roster not just the Log Jam with guards and wings I mean that's a whole other beast and we covered that on yesterday's show with Larry Krueger quite a bit uh but they've got a log Jam in terms of the actual roster I mean they've got uh 15 dudes right now signed um or 14 dudes I'm sorry signed but they have no cap space for a 15 and Quin post is there anyways I hear my my my friend my colleague one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA Rick Barry so if you want to continue this party all right join the miked up app and if you're watching this on YouTube right now I'm going to I'm going to quickly uh because visuals always help or usually help uh so even though 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