Warriors official announcement! Seth Curry officially waived

On October 19, as there are only three days left until the NBA 2025-26 regular season opener, this has triggered a wave of layoffs in the league. Because the league's 30 teams must finalize their 15-man roster before the official start of the regular season. As a result, this means that most of the marginal players who could still represent NBA teams in preseason games will be unemployed in the league!

There is no doubt that the rise of layoffs in the NBA will inevitably cause many people on the fringes of the league who are relatively good to lose their jobs! The reason is often that there are no spots on the team's roster or the team's salary space does not allow him to formally sign. In short, this process will cause some players who have the ability to compete in the NBA to be ruthlessly laid off!

So, this also allows us to see that Jared Butler, who scored 35 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 1 steal in the previous preseason game against the Lakers, was laid off by the Phoenix Suns. The Suns have decided to give the team's 14th standard contract to guard Jordan Goodwin, and in order to retain a spot for subsequent flexible signings, the Suns had to tearfully waive Jared Butler.

Of course, in this wave of layoffs in the league, the most surprising and shocking person is Seth Curry, the younger brother of Warriors star Stephen Curry, because this 11-year veteran guard with excellent shooting skills is also on the roster of the layoffs!

The Golden State Warriors officially announced today that the team has officially waived LJ Kreir and Seth Curry.

At this moment, there may be a lot of iron juices who will issue such soul torture: isn't it? The Warriors actually waived Curry Jr. They didn't promise to play brother basketball in Golden State in the new season, so why did they suddenly waive him? Actually! Stay calm everyone, it is inevitable that Curry and Curry will play brother basketball in the new season, but it is not possible for now! According to previous reports, the Golden State Warriors are expected to re-sign Seth Curry once they have sufficient salary space (early in the regular season).

Since Seth Curry signed an ex-9 contract with the Warriors this offseason, the Warriors must waive him before the regular season opener. As for why the Warriors did not directly sign Seth Curry with a veteran's minimum salary contract this summer, Jonathan Kuminga has to be mentioned. Because after the Warriors signed a two-year, 48.5 million contract extension with Kuminga, the team's salary space was only US$2 million, which resulted in the Warriors being unable to sign someone with the veteran's minimum salary (accounting for 2.296 million in the salary cap).

In the end, the Warriors turned to using the "daily conversion" rule of the basic salary to let Curry join the team in advance, and then waived him before the start of the regular season! Then wait about two weeks after the start of the regular season, and then sign him back to Golden State with a one-year minimum salary contract. By then, the salary cap amount occupied by Curry's minimum salary will be reduced to less than 2 million (the Warriors' salary space will be sufficient by then).

Obviously, Seth Curry was completely "prevented" by Jonathan Kuminga this summer! Just imagine, if Kuminga could have taken $500,000 less from the Warriors when he renewed his contract, then Seth Curry could have directly signed with the Golden State Warriors on a veteran's minimum salary contract. Unfortunately, this did not happen! Therefore, this is why Seth Curry was officially announced to be laid off by the Warriors today.

Although the Warriors have officially announced that they have waived Seth Curry, the countdown to his return has also begun! After a while, when the Warriors officially sign back Seth Curry with the veteran's minimum salary, the NBA will officially have three groups of brothers playing for the same team. They are the Bucks of the three Antetokounmpo brothers, the Magic of the Wagner brothers, and the Warriors of the Curry brothers.