{"id":841210,"date":"2026-08-01T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:22:16","slug":"report-golden-state-warriors-bring-back-gary-payton-ii-on-veteran-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841210\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Golden State Warriors bring back Gary Payton II on veteran minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden State Warriors<\/a> are bringing back forward Gary Payton II<\/a> on a one-year, $3.9 million veteran minimum deal, league sources told ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This will be Payton\u2019s seventh season with the franchise, having only briefly departed for the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> in the 2022 offseason before a trade brought him back. He has been an organizational mainstay since.<\/p>\n

Payton has had injury trouble over the years but put together a healthy 73-game 2025-26 season, serving as a unique bench piece as an undersized but athletic 6-foot-2 frontcourt option, defending bigger matchups and slashing offensively.<\/p>\n

Payton has a particularly strong relationship with Warriors stars Stephen Curry<\/a> and Jimmy Butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Payton re-signing gives the Warriors 12 players. They will have room to add only two or three more free agents on the veteran minimum.<\/p>\n

The Payton reunion is in line with the Warriors\u2019 clear plan this summer to bring back the majority of their veteran core on short-term contracts. Earlier in free agency, they re-signed Kristaps Porzingis<\/a>, Al Horford<\/a>, De\u2019Anthony Melton and Draymond Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors are bringing back forward Gary Payton II on a one-year, $3.9 million veteran minimum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,292955,77896,459,82],"class_list":["post-841210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gary-payton-ii-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-846407","tag-golden-state-warriors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-9","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}