11.7 million in 2 years, Warriors sign Horford! "Dead 5 Olds" leads the 15-player potential luxury roster

2 years, $11.7 million, the Warriors finally signed the first official contract new player Horford so far! With Horford's joining, the Warriors formed the "Death Five Olds" to lead the 15-man potential luxury roster and faced three major challenges.

Warriors signed 11.7 million for 2 years Horford

According to Rob Murrows, multiple sources confirmed to it that free agent Horford agreed to sign a two-year contract worth $11.7 million with the second year of the contract being the player option.

It is worth mentioning that the Warriors reached an oral franchise agreement with Horford at the beginning of the offseason. The fundamental reason why they have not completed the signing is that they are afraid that the hard salary cap will not be enough to match the quotes provided by other teams to Kumingga.

It was not until the day before that the Nets signed a one-year qualification quotation contract with Cam Thomas that the Warriors finally found peace of mind that the two-year, $11.7 million contract with Horford.

"Dead 5 Olds" lead the 15-man roster

Although the Warriors have only completed this official signing so far in the offseason, there are only 10 formal contract players on the roster at present, according to previous reports from famous reporters such as Brett Siegel, Jake Fischer and Stein, the Warriors have successively settled five new players.

In addition to signing Horford, who has a two-year $11.7 million contract, the Warriors have also reached an oral franchise agreement with Brogden, Melton, Payton Jr. and Curry Jr. The core reason why

has not signed the contract for a long time is the same as not signing Horford, which is to avoid being passive when solving the Kumingga problem.

If everything goes well, Cumingga will eventually stay with the team, and the Warriors will get the remaining 4 new players who have reached a verbal agreement. At that time, Curry, Butler, Hilder, Zhumeng and Horford will lead the Warriors' potential 15-man luxury roster:

Potential starters: Curry, Hilder, Butler, Zhumeng and Horford;

It is expected that substitutes: Melton, Boger, Brogdon, Curry Jr., Payton Jr., Santos, TJD, Post, Kumingga and Moody.

Kuminga fell into a passive position as the Warriors officially used the middle class special case to sign Horford, which means that they are ready to strengthen their tough confrontation with Kumin, and the latter has also lost the trump card to directly leave the team and maximize the losses of the Warriors.

According to previous reports, the Warriors provided a two-year contract renewal to Kumingga team worth $45 million, and asked Kumingga to give up the trade veto and player options.

Kumingga's team insisted on getting a multi-year contract and cornerstone status, and the Warriors obviously wanted to send it away and exchange it for immediate combat power. However, the Kings and Suns and other teams provided insufficient chips in the offseason, so they proposed a two-year contract to facilitate the re-trading in the middle of the new season. After signing Horford, it means that the Warriors are ready to accept a one-year quotation of 7.9 million qualifications.

The Warriors face three major challenges

If Kuminga finally accepts a one-year contract and returns to the Warriors, the latter will handle the remaining four new players who have reached a verbal agreement, this potential 15-man roster will also face three major challenges.

First of all, there are physical and health problems caused by age. Among the "5 dead olds", Curry is 37 years old, Butler is 36 years old, Zhu Meng is 35 years old, Hilde is 33 years old, and the new player Horford is 39 years old, with the total of five people 180 years old.

The second is body problem. Judging from the existing potential roster, the Warriors have accumulated too many defenders. It would be a better choice if Curry can be replaced with a forward signing.

Finally, it was running-in and injured. It introduced several new players in one go, and the core players were older, so the Warriors had a very high time and difficulty in running-in.

But if everything goes well, Melton can recover and Horford can appear stably in the playoffs, then this old Warriors team has excellent strength on paper and is very likely to become a dark horse in the playoffs again.

Of course, the premise is that this group of veterans can stay healthy for a long time and occupy a good regular season position in the meat grinder-like West.