How the NBA's New Salary Cap Impacts the Warriors

Locked On Warriors – Daily Podcast On The Golden State Warriors

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Wes Goldberg, Warriors writer for the Mercury News, is joined by columnist Dieter Kurtenbach to discuss what the league's new financial framework means for the Warriors, and why not spending big this offseason is not an option. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Theragun Try Theragun RISK-FREE for THIRTY-DAYS. Go to Theragun.com/LOCKEDON right now and get your Gen 4 Theragun TODAY. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. BuiltGo Visit BuiltGO.com and use promo code “LOCKED,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on All Things Warriors, part of the Lockdown
0:03.7	Podcast Network. I'm West Goldberg, Warriors Beat Reporter for the Mercury News, and on today's show,
0:08.3	my colleague and columnist Dieter Curtinbach joins me to discuss how the league's new salary
0:12.2	cap structure impacts the Warriors and some of our favorite targets for the trade exception
0:16.1	and the mid-level exception.
0:17.9	You are Locked on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast, part of the
0:23.8	Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:32.5	Happy to be joined by my Bay Area News Group colleague Dieter Kirk Boxer wrote a call on Tuesday
0:37.4	saying that with the luxury tax release, the NBA will be fighting these
0:42.0	teams, the Warriors have no excuse but to spend big this off season.
0:46.5	There are so many ways to take this.
0:48.6	But I think the biggest thing fans will be wondering about is if this is a green light
0:53.1	to use that trade exception, Peter.
0:54.9	Well, I would argue it's a green light because you look at the roster breakdown of this
0:59.0	Warriors team currently and nobody could make a reasonable case that this is a cream of the crop
1:04.3	roster. We obviously know that the Warriors have a core three. I don't care how you feel about
1:09.8	Andrew Wiggins. He's clearly a solid
1:11.7	starting caliber wing in the NBA. But where championships are won and lost is in depth and with
1:17.2	the second unit. And right now, you're dealing with a team whose second unit accomplished 15
1:22.1	total wins last year. Clearly, that is not a good recipe moving forward.
1:27.7	And if the Warriors reason that they weren't going to use,
1:30.8	the $17.2 million,
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