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[kuz @kylekuzma]

After sitting here watching NBA free agency this year and overall NBA movement over the past 2 years somebody has to say it....

The new CBA was sold as parity, but the first and second apron are starting to function like a hard cap on player value, team continuity, and player movement.

Teams are no longer making purely basketball decisions. They’re making fear-based apron decisions. That means good players get squeezed, homegrown cores get broken up, fan-favorite teams lose their identity, and the overall product loses some of the nostalgia and continuity that made people fall in love with the NBA in the first place.

This isn’t about players not understanding business. It’s the opposite. We understand that the NBA is a business. That’s why the @TheNBPA has to operate with elite business acumen, elite negotiating strategy, and real foresight.

The owners and the league walk into these meetings with killers that continue to run circles around us time and time again with elite lawyers, economists, cap experts, media strategists, and long term business operators. Players deserve a PA that is just as sharp, just as prepared, and just as aggressive about protecting our upside.

Too often, it feels like players are informed after the fact instead of being truly educated and empowered before decisions are made. That cannot continue.

The next CBA is a do or die moment for us as players. It's only going to get worse for us. We need transparency, accountability, and a serious re evaluation of who is representing us and how they are representing us.

This is not anti parity. This is pro player, fan, and product. The league is strongest when players are valued properly, great teams can stay together, and the people representing us are operating at the same level as the people sitting across the table.

[WarriorsMuse @WarriorsMuse]

Rakuten patches.

2017-2026.

Salute 🫡

[Nick Friedell @NickFriedell]

Thought Jimmy made a notable acknowledgment in the midst of the jersey patch announcement today: He said the Warriors are the best organization he's ever played for -- especially in the way everything is run top to bottom

"When I say I don't want to be anywhere else, this is it"

[B/R Hoops @brhoops]

BRO HAD THE ULTIMATE GREEN LIGHT 😭

Lajae Jones shot 21 3 pointers tonight against Georgia Southern 😳

36 PTS | 10-21 FG | 10-21 3PT

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

“This really means the world to me.”

@cartainc || #DubsDraft

[Michigan Men's Basketball @umichbball]

The Big Ten Player of the Year is heading to the Warriors 👏

[ESPN @espn]

"I don't deserve to be here right now. ... I can't believe it."

Yaxel Lendeborg is full of emotions after getting drafted to the Golden State Warriors 🥹

[st3phback @st3phback]

@Yaxel_Lendeborg Go be great young king!!!

[Yaxel Lendeborg @Yaxel_Lendeborg]

Thank you for believing in me❤️

[aly ✶ @jinthirty]

Steph Curry’s comment on Yaxel’s IG:

“Let’s go! Welcome to the Bay!
I'm going to work hard to be your new favorite player 😂”

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Golden State's Al Horford is declining his player option and intends to sign a new two-year, $14 million deal to stay with the Warriors, sources tell me and @anthonyVslater. Horford, 40, becomes only the 13th player in NBA history to reach 20 seasons.

[Yaxel Lendeborg @Yaxel_Lendeborg]

DUB NATIONNNNNNNNN💙💙💙💙💙💙

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

Steph Curry & Ayesha Curry at the Met Gala. 🔥

(h/t @NBAdabad)

[st3phback @st3phback]

@_JasonLT @OldTakesExposed

[st3phback @st3phback]

@TheVolumeSports @_JasonLT @OldTakesExposed

[Chef curry (Parody) @baby_face_goat]

Curry had the other teams player praising him after the game lol

[st3phback @st3phback]

@aryh21 @_JasonLT wya?

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Michael Carter-Williams says Steph Curry is the GOAT:

“Maybe because he's had so much help. I don't agree with it but... KD went there. But all the greats had great teams.”

(via @RunItBackFDTV)

[st3phback @st3phback]

@willrxch 💛💙

[Basketball University @UofBasketball]

Best Playoff rim protector in the tracking era…

6’6 Draymond Green