Moses Moody committed to the team that has yet to commit to him on the court.
Moody, 22, agreed to a three-year, $39 million contract extension with the Warriors, league sources confirmed Sunday night. At roughly $13 million per year, he’ll be under team control for the next four years at below the non-taxpayer midlevel exception on an average annual basis.
ESPN was the first to report the deal, which will keep Moody under contract through the 2027-28 season.
In 181 regular season games, Moody has averaged 5.9 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. A career 36.2% shooter from behind the 3-point arc, Moody has looked much more confident handling the ball and creating his own shot during the preseason.
When given opportunities in the past three years, Moody has produced. He was effective in spot minutes in Golden State’s 2022 playoff series against the Mavericks and also played well in 12 postseason games in 2023. In his last 24 games played last season, he posted eight double-digit scoring games.
But Moody has frequently been the odd-man out of Steve Kerr’s rotations. He got DNPs in seven games last year, was inactive for nine more and played fewer than 15 minutes in 21 games.
Even as his role has fluctuated, Moody has never complained. Kerr and the Warriors have always raved about the wing’s professionalism and maturity.
Moody worked on his 3-point shot — particularly quickening the release — and his ability to move efficiently this summer. The results were clear in Summer League and then in the preseason, when Moody scored the second-most points in the NBA while leading the Warriors.
“He’s playing great,” Kerr said recently. “He’s gotten so much better in so many ways. We’ve always loved his character, his work ethic. This is the most confidence he’s played with.”
Even entering this year, though, Moody’s role is uncertain. He’s one of 13 Warriors Kerr is comfortable playing, but the team only wants to play a 10-man rotation. On the wing, he’ll likely compete for bench minutes with Buddy Hield, Gary Payton II, Lindy Waters III.
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“We’re sitting in that coaches room every day saying: ‘How are we going to play all these guys?’ Because they all deserve to play.”
By extending Moody before Monday’s 3 p.m. deadline, it will be harder for the Warriors to package him in a trade because of the poison …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
