It was true that the fist fight at Golden State had a bad effect on the team.
The Golden State Warriors ended the season by going 2-4 to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Semifinals of the 2023 NBA Playoffs.
It was Golden State who defeated Boston in the 2022 Finals and won the championship trophy, recapturing the throne four years after 2018.
I started the season with the dream of winning the league for the second time in a row since the days of Kevin Durant, but the results were not satisfactory. After a close fight for rankings until the last minute, they took 6th place in the West, and succeeded in upset in the first round, but lost to the Lakers in the subsequent Western Semifinals.
There is a lot of talk about Golden State in the offseason.
In the midst of this, Golden State coach Steve Kerr made an honest statement about the fistfight incident within the team last year. Golden State suffered a major blow last fall, ahead of the start of the 2022-2023 regular season, when a fistfight between Draymond Green and Jordan Poole occurred, and the related video was leaked.
Looking back on the incident, Kerr confessed, “It became an opportunity for the players to lose trust in each other.”
“I don’t have to hide anything about that incident,” he said. “The incident with Draymond Green and Jordan Poole at the start of the season affected the team,” he said. “It was an incident that caused the players to lose trust in each other.”
Green and Poole, who were the parties to the incident, are considered as players likely to leave the team in the future.
Green, who punched Jordan Poole first, was the first player to cause the team chemistry to collapse. The remaining contract between Golden State and Green is only one year. Green will qualify as a free agent after receiving $27.58 million from Golden State for the coming 2023-2024 season. According to the rules, it is possible to agree on an extension contract in the upcoming fall, but some predict that Golden State may give up accompanying Green.
Jordan Poole, who signed a huge 4-year, $128 million contract with Golden State in the summer of last year, fell from the team’s future to a nuisance in just one season. This is because of the severely unstable defense, frequent turnovers and strange shot selection in offense. Golden State wants to trade Poole, but there are also stories that it is not easy to trade because of the size of the extension contract that was agreed a year earlier.먹튀검증
Meanwhile, Golden State has already reached $210 million in annual salary for the 2023-2024 season. With the new labor-management agreement, even the method of power reinforcement is reduced, and a situation may occur that is getting farther away from the championship while paying a huge luxury tax (estimated $ 235.47 million for the 2023-2024 season).