Restricted free agent Quinten Post is headed toward a three-year, $30 million offer sheet from the Grizzlies, and the Warriors now have a deadline hanging over them. Golden State must decide by 11:59 pm Tuesday whether to match and keep him.
The deal is expected to come out of Memphis’ non-taxpayer mid-level exception, according to Yossi Gozlan of The Third Apron. If the Warriors do match, that exception would still be available. If Post ends up in Memphis, Gozlan says the Grizzlies would need another route to land Isaiah Stewart from Detroit, either by dipping into a portion of a $29 million trade exception or by widening the Santi Aldama trade with Dallas.
Around the league, the sense is that Golden State may let this one go. Gozlan believes the Warriors are unlikely to match because they want to keep cap flexibility for other possible moves, including their pursuit of LeBron James. Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints also doesn’t expect the Warriors to retain Post.
The Warriors have reportedly been preparing for this possibility for days. Jake Fischer of The Stein Line says Golden State has been “bracing” for a Post offer sheet, while ESPN’s Anthony Slater reports the team likes Post as a backup center but may decide the new price is simply too high.
Offer sheets have largely faded out of NBA team-building in recent years, and Bobby Marks of ESPN noted how unusual this one is. He pointed out that the last player to sign an offer sheet worth more than $5 million per season was Matisse Thybulle with Dallas in 2023, and the last offer sheet to go unmatched came in 2020, when Bogdan Bogdanovic went from Sacramento to Atlanta.
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