{"id":763240,"date":"2026-06-27T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:18:10","slug":"warriors-rumors-melton-porzingis-burries-horford-olbrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763240\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Rumors: Melton, Porzingis, Burries, Horford, Olbrich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warriors guard De\u2019Anthony Melton<\/a> is expected to join a new team this summer, sources tell Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Melton spent last season on a minimum-salary contract\u00a0and holds a $3.45MM player option for next season. Anthony Slater of ESPN previously reported<\/a> that Melton was expected to decline that option to test the open market, but that wouldn\u2019t preclude a return to Golden State.<\/p>\n

Melton, 28, played a larger offensive role than anticipated in 2025\/26 due to injuries. The veteran combo guard averaged a career-high 12.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.6 steals in 23.0 minutes per game across 49 appearances, including 24 starts.<\/p>\n

While Melton shot a career-best 50.5% on two-pointers last season and a solid 82.6% on free throws, he struggled from beyond the arc, converting just 29.4% of his three-point tries. He had made 38.3% of his threes in the five seasons leading up to \u201925\/26.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Warriors:<\/p>\n

Both Golden State and Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> are interested in coming to terms on a new contract, according to Siegel. Sources tell ClutchPoints the two sides have been \u201cactively engaged\u201d in contract discussions. Slater previously reported there was \u201cgrowing momentum<\/a>\u201d between the Warriors and Porzingis on a short-term deal.
\nThe Warriors are believed to be seeking backcourt reinforcements, per Siegel, particularly a secondary play-maker at guard. On a related note, sources tell Siegel the Warriors had been targeting former Arizona guard Brayden Burries<\/a> with the 11th overall pick and believed he might fall to that spot after Atlanta and Dallas chose other prospects at Nos. 8 and 9, respectively. However, as Siegel writes, Burries was selected by the Bucks at No. 10, which led the Warriors to draft Yaxel Lendeborg<\/a>, another player the team was high on.
\nAl Horford<\/a>\u2018s new contract<\/a> with Golden State is expected to feature a 15% trade kicker, sources tell ClutchPoints. Slater and Shams Charania of ESPN reported Thursday that Horford would be re-signing with the Warriors on a two-year, $14MM deal after declining his $6MM player option. ESPN\u2019s duo also said the 40-year-old big man\u2019s contract would contain a trade kicker, though the report didn\u2019t specify the percentage.
\nFormer Bulls center\/forward Lachlan Olbrich<\/a> will play for the Warriors in summer league action, per Olgun Uluc of ESPN (Twitter link<\/a>). Olbrich spent last season on a two-way contract with the Bulls, appearing in 37 games and averaging 2.4 points and 3.0 rebounds in 9.3 minutes per contest. The 22-year-old Australian was selected 55th overall in last year\u2019s draft. Chicago could have made him a two-way restricted free agent by issuing him a qualifying offer, but it sounds like that won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warriors guard De\u2019Anthony Melton is expected to join a new team this summer, sources tell Brett Siegel of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[5551,64,63,726,285591,32201,12833,294270,85,275299],"class_list":["post-763240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-al-horford","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-brayden-burries","tag-deanthony-melton","tag-kristaps-porzingis","tag-lachlan-olbrich","tag-sports","tag-yaxel-lendeborg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}