The Warriors are letting Quinten Post walk.
Golden State has decided not to match Memphis’ offer sheet for the restricted free agent center, according to Shams Charania and Anthony Slater of ESPN. That clears the way for Post to officially join the Grizzlies after Memphis put a three-year, $30MM deal in front of him on Monday, just before the July moratorium ended.
The Warriors had a little over 36 hours to make their call, and the structure of the contract clearly mattered. Post’s deal is reportedly guaranteed only for the first year, with a $9MM base salary for 2026/27. It also carries annual bonuses - including $1.35MM in year one - if he makes an All-Defensive team.
Those incentives are unlikely, and they don’t hit the salary cap, but they do count toward a team’s apron salary. For Golden State, that was a real factor as the team works through a probable second-apron hard cap.
The final two seasons of the contract include a non-guaranteed $8.5MM base salary each year, along with $1.28MM in annual unlikely bonuses.
Post had become a useful piece for the Warriors after they took him with the 52nd pick in the 2024 draft. In 67 games last season, including 35 starts, he averaged 7.7 points and 4.0 rebounds in 17.3 minutes per game while shooting 44% from the field and 33.6% from deep.
Golden State did extend a qualifying offer worth roughly $2.6MM to make him a restricted free agent, and ESPN reported the team had hoped to keep him. In the end, though, Memphis’ price tag was too rich for the Warriors.
He now heads to a Grizzlies frontcourt that has been reshaped around several new names, including first-round picks Cameron Boozer and Karim Lopez, trade pickup Isaiah Stewart, and incumbent center Zach Edey.
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