The defending NBA champions will have a busy offseason next year as two key players will become free agents. Harrison Barnes, who has yet to sign an extension and Andrew Bogut will be an unrestricted free agent next year are the team's 2 priorities next offseason.
According to usatoday.com, Bogut spoke about contracts and rumors about the team trying to acquire All-Star Kevin Durant. "Within our group, it hasn't been a huge distraction," Bogut said. "Obviously you want every player to get their max worth. A career is very short, and obviously you want to make it while you can. Harrison is going to be a very rich man regardless of what direction that all goes."
"These situations (with this kind of collective group) don't come up very often, so when they're available you want to milk them for as long as you can," Bogut added. "I think our owners and our GM understand that, that if you can keep this team together for another four or five years you try everything in your power to do that, rather than trying to all of a sudden put on an 'I'm smarter than everyone and we're going to make this big move,' when it's really not needed...I don't think Harrison is going to go anywhere."
He then added "I think he's just obviously going to lift his value a little bit more with the new (salary) cap and all that going in (the NBA's salary cap is set to spike from $67 million to $89 million next season because the nine-year, $24 billion television deal with ESPN and Turner kick."
As per espn.com, Barnes did not sign an extension prior to the November 2 deadline and will be a restricted free agent after this season.
It was previously reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports that the Golden State Warriors small forward was offered a contract extension worth $64 million for 4 years. This was the proposal after the initial $16 million dollar per year offer was rejected. The recent NBA champions tried hard to sign Barnes before he was able to reach restricted free agency in July 2016 but could not finalize a deal.
