{"id":783854,"date":"2026-07-25T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783854\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:37:09","slug":"draymond-green-expected-to-re-sign-with-warriors-for-nearly-28-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783854\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green expected to re-sign with Warriors for nearly $28 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Warriors are now expected to re-sign Draymond Green to roughly the same dollar amount \u2014 nearly $28 million \u2014 of the player\u2019s option he declined last month<\/a>. \u201cJames is such an enigma,\u201d a league source close to the Warriors told The Athletic. \u2014 7\/25\/2026 New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Heat Central: Rich Paul says LeBron<\/a> was on a emotional roller coaster making his decision: Rich: The emotional attachments to go away from a Miami<\/a>, and go away from a Cleveland<\/a>, who wouldn\u2019t want to play with Steph Curry<\/a> and Draymond Green? Max: That would\u2019ve been fun but it\u2019s not the choice of somebody who wants to win a championship<\/a> \u2014 7\/24\/2026 x.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthony Slater: Do you see the number on that graphic, $27.7 million dollars? Draymond Green gave that back under the assumption that if it comes down to it he can get somewhere near that back from the Warriors. It was to give flexibility to go try to chase LeBron. If they were to get LeBron, that could get him maybe a multi-year deal at a lower number, but still financial security. To answer your question, there’s been some speculation, hey, maybe he could follow LeBron to another place. LeBron’s having trouble getting more than the minimum out there. So, Draymond Green if he were to follow LeBron would have to take the minimum and I mentioned that number $27.7 million because that’s a lot more than $3.9 million.<\/a> And I know Draymond Green. He likes 27.7 million a lot more than 3.9. \u2014 7\/24\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

NBA commissioner Adam Silver may regret calling out LeBron James to decide where he will play next season. Four-time NBA champion Draymond Green said that Silver urging James to make a decision soon might only make him take longer to announce it. \u201cAdam saying that is not going to speed up LeBron\u2019s decision at all,\u201d Green said on the \u201cDraymond Green Show.\u201d<\/a> \u201cIf I know Bron well, if anything, it may slow his decision down a little more because that\u2019s just how Bron is. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n

As sources described to the California Post, multiple teams \u2014 and players \u2014 throughout the league are in a holding pattern until James makes his decision.<\/a> It\u2019s why James Harden<\/a> remains an unrestricted free agent after declining his $42.3 million player option with the Cavaliers over three weeks ago with the expectation he\u2019d re-sign with Cleveland on a new deal. It\u2019s why Draymond Green remains an unrestricted free agent after declining his $27.7 million player option with the Warriors, with the expectation he\u2019d re-sign with Golden State on a new deal. \u2014 7\/22\/2026 New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Draymond Green: Someone that asked me how would the offense run with LeBron James. Would it be me? Would it be Bron? I told him I said, “Man, I it’ll be Bron and I’mma be PJ Tucker<\/a> and I’m go become the greatest corner three-point shooter ever.” Number one, the people that start coming out of the woodworks like PJ Tucker, great three-point shooter. You better go check PJ Tucker’s scoring three-point shooter. PJ Tucker probably led the NBA according to three-point shooting percentage for maybe six years in a row. And he it wasn’t like oh man he edged somebody out at 41% man. Dude was shooting like 56% from corner three at times throughout his career you know and so incredible corner three-point shooter. Won’t be tolerating any PJ Tucker corner three-point shooting disrespect here. But no, what I was getting at with that was like, yo, if you got LeBron James and Steph Curry in the pick and roll, like, yeah, I’ll always have that ability to go get in the pick and roll and make some plays, but if you got LeBron James and Steph Curry in a pick and roll, you better go find a role. You better go find a spot so you can be valuable<\/a>. \u2014 7\/21\/2026 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged last week the league office can\u2019t finish the schedule until LeBron James chooses a destination. That\u2019s real power. James Harden remains unsigned while the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> wait on yet another LeBron decision. The futures of other veterans like Draymond Green and Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> remain murky because of him. Summer League is over. This is usually around the time the league goes into hibernation, when coaches and executives take their well-deserved vacations and get away from business for most of August. LeBron is now encroaching on that time as well<\/a>. \u2014 7\/21\/2026 New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Green went on to say that while Kobe was trying to find his way in the NBA without O\u2019Neal, the emergence of James started to steal the spotlight as Bryant was playing at a high level,<\/a> but the Lakers<\/a> weren\u2019t winning a lot of games. \u2014 7\/21\/2026 New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant\u2019s former partner in crime, Shaquille O\u2019Neal had Golden State Warriors defensive star Draymond Green on his podcast \u201cThe Big Podcast\u201d and revealed that due to playing in the same era as LeBron James, that\u2019s why he isn\u2019t in the GOAT conversation. \u201cKobe kind of fell in a weird time,\u201d Green said to O\u2019Neal on The Big Podcast. \u201c[Michael Jordan] left the league. When Mike left the league, y\u2019all started to dominate. And then, you left the Lakers. When you left the Lakers, they had a few rough years.\u201d<\/a> \u2014 7\/21\/2026 New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Lendeborg scored a game-high 21 points with 11 rebounds and led a 12-point, fourth-quarter comeback victory en route to being named MVP of the championship game, and later the entire summer league. The rookie’s performance and comments drew the attention of Warriors veteran Draymond Green. \u201cI respect that,\u201d Green said on Monday\u2019s episode of his podcast, “The Draymond Green Show.” \u201cI\u2019ve seen many guys over the years tighten up when the moment gets there and not be able to get it across the finish line.\u201d<\/a> \u2014 7\/21\/2026 NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors are now expected to re-sign Draymond Green to roughly the same dollar amount \u2014 nearly $28…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[852,8174,13339,6418,6422,25694,6306,43361,2821,355,330819,99,3781,4202],"class_list":["post-783854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-draymond-green","tag-james-harden","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-kobe","tag-lakers","tag-lebron","tag-miami","tag-nba","tag-pj-tucker","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}