{"id":77163,"date":"2025-08-18T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77163\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:13:09","slug":"warriors-nba-champion-makes-move-to-new-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77163\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors NBA Champion Makes Move to New Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1388281278.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"   decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJustin Ford\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Former Warriors guard\/forward Juan Toscano-Anderson plans to play the 2025-26 season in Italy. <\/p>\n<p>Former NBA champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/toscaju01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Toscano-Anderson<\/a> is on the move.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAlessandro_LU\/status\/1956691288893292838?t=2Bsy6k3duDQ9EvdALEABng&amp;s=19\" rel=\"nofollow\">European basketball insider Luca D\u2019Alessandro<\/a>, Toscano-Anderson is signing with Italian-based club Pallacanestro Trieste for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Toscano-Anderson spent five seasons in the NBA, most notably with the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> from 2020-23.<\/p>\n<p>During the Warriors\u2019 2022 championship season, the 6-foot-6 swingman averaged 4.1 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists while shooting 48.9% from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Juan Toscano-Anderson Has Had Well-Traveled Career<\/p>\n<p>Toscano-Anderson, 32, has bounced around quite a bit in recent years. He spent the 2024-25 campaign with the Mexico City Capitanes, the NBA G League\u2019s only independent team, averaging 16.1 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.7 steals in 42 games.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Tosano-Anderson briefly played with the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>. In 11 games off the bench in 2023-24, he had seven points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings waived Toscano-Anderson, then re-signed him to a 10-day contract before he rejoined the Capitanes.<\/p>\n<p>Toscano-Anderson has also played with the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/utah-jazz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Toscano-Anderson has appeared 202 games (37 starts) during his NBA career, averaging 4.1 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists while shooting 50.2%, including 32.9% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juan Toscano-Anderson Made History With Warriors<\/p>\n<p>After going undrafted out of Marquette in 2015, Toscano-Anderson played internationally in Mexico and Venezuela before latching on in the G League with the Santa Cruz Warriors in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, Toscano-Anderson signed a three-year contract with Golden State. The Warriors released Toscano-Anderson that December but re-signed him to a two-way contract later that month.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021-22 campaign was particularly notable for Toscano-Anderson. The Oakland, Calif., native became the first player of Mexican descent to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/2022-att-slam-dunk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Slam Dunk Contest<\/a>. Toscano-Anderson even made the finals but lost to<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> New York Knicks<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/toppiob01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obi Toppin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That same season, Toscano-Anderson became the second player of Mexican descent to win an NBA championship ring, following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/aguirma01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Mark Aguirre<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/detroit-pistons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> in 1989. Toscano-Anderson averaged 3.5 minutes per game off the bench that postseason, notching 11 points and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/dpbonjour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Bonjour<\/a> is a breaking news contributor covering the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and WNBA for Heavy. He is also a contributing writer for The Associated Press and has worked for Point Spreads, the Connecticut Post and Hearst Connecticut Media as a reporter and editor. <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/dpbonjour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More about Douglas Bonjour<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Warriors\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Ford\/Getty Images Former Warriors guard\/forward Juan Toscano-Anderson plans to play the 2025-26 season in Italy. 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