{"id":798161,"date":"2026-08-01T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798161\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:15:11","slug":"sources-warriors-bring-back-gary-payton-ii-on-vet-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798161\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Warriors bring back Gary Payton II on vet minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> are bringing back forward Gary Payton II on a one-year, $3.9 million veteran minimum deal, league sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This will be Payton&#8217;s seventh season with the franchise, having only briefly departed for the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/por\/portland-trail-blazers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> in the 2022 offseason before a trade brought him back. He has been an organizational mainstay since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Payton has a particularly strong relationship with Warriors stars<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3975\/stephen-curry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Curry<\/a> and <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6430\/jimmy-butler-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy Butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Payton reunion is in line with the Warriors&#8217; clear plan this summer to bring back the majority of their veteran core on short-term contracts. Earlier in free agency, they re-signed <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3102531\/kristaps-porzingis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a>, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3213\/al-horford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al Horford<\/a>, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066436\/deanthony-melton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">De&#8217;Anthony Melton<\/a> and <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6589\/draymond-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Draymond Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[338728,352,2243,355,3,338727,99],"class_list":["post-798161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-338728","tag-espn","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-payton-ii-gary","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798161","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=798161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}