Warriors, Brandin Podziemski reportedly agree to five-year, $110 million contract extension

From the Warriors’ perspective this feels like smart business, they hang on to someone they see as part of their future without impacting cap space.

Golden State fan favorite Brandin Podziemski is staying in Golden State after the sides agreed to a five-year, $110 million rookie contract extension, ESPN’s Shams Charania reports. There is a mutual option for both the player and the team in the fifth year.

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That’s solid starter money for the 6’4″ guard who played in all 82 games for the Warriors last season (starting 43) and led the team in mintues, averaging 13.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game while shooting 37.1% from 3-point range. He’s also a solid perimeter defender, which the Warriors need next to Stephen Curry, even if that pair doesn’t always feel like the most natural fit (like Klay Thompson was). That said, Steve Kerr and the Warriors staff clearly trust him by how much they have him on the court.

While the Warriors could have held out to try and get Podziemski to sign for less as a restricted free agent, they wanted to keep a fan favorite and not risk another team making an even larger offer next summer to try and poach him.

This contract will start at $18.9 million next season, reports Anthony Slater of ESPN. Podziemski’s cap hold for next summer would have already been $17 million, so this contract doesn’t really eat into the $55-60 million in cap space the Warriors expect to have next summer to chase a star or stars to put next to Curry (or re-sign Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green).

Podziemski becomes the fifth player from the 2023 NBA Draft class to reach a rookie-scale extension so far, joining Victor Wembanyama, Amen Thompson, Ausar Thompson and Keyonte George. The deadline for extensions for anyone else in that class is Oct. 19.

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