Can the Warriors run it back with the same roster next season?

The champagne was flowing after the Golden State Warriors received their fourth NBA title in eight years final week. But earlier than the bottles had been emptied, the champions had been already answering questions on working it back next season.

Do they preserve the roster collectively? If they do, they could must proceed to be the league’s greatest spenders.

Finals MVP Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green are all returning next season and sound assured in successful that fifth ring, particularly when younger gamers like Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole and Jonathan Kuminga are anticipated to be alongside the veterans.

“And we ain’t carried out,” Thompson mentioned Friday whereas showing on Green’s podcast. “That’s the stunning factor about it. We bought these younger bucks behind us, and we bought the same squad coming back? That’s scary for the NBA.”

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Wiggins and Poole are each coming into the last years of their contracts and will probably be the way forward for the group. Both had been requested about staying in the Bay Area long-term throughout their exit interviews.

“I’d love to remain right here,” Wiggins mentioned Saturday afternoon. “Being right here, that is top-notch. The method they deal with the gamers … we’re all one massive household. I really feel like a variety of locations could say that, however they present it via their actions.”

Poole, on the different hand wasn’t wanting too far forward but.

“If I’m going to be utterly sincere, I have not even been capable of fathom something about that course of but,” Poole mentioned. “I used to be so locked in on the championship. Like, we all know it will occur, we put ourselves in conditions to achieve success and every part else will care for itself.”

Signing Poole and Wiggins long-term might be important, however the crew additionally has a handful of free brokers to consider this offseason. Gary Payton II, Andre Iguodala, Kevon Looney, Otto Porter Jr., Nemanja Bjelica, Damion Lee and Chris Chiozza will all be unrestricted free brokers. Juan Toscano-Anderson and Quinndary Weatherspoon might be restricted free brokers.

On prime of all this, the Warriors have already got a top-heavy roster. According to Spotrac.com, the quartet of Curry ($48 million), Thompson ($40.6M), Wiggins ($33.6M) and Green ($25.8M) alone account for greater than 70% of their cap area for next season.

That has the franchise dealing with an estimated luxurious tax invoice of greater than $74 million as their roster is at the moment located.

Of course, the Warriors haven’t been shy about spending cash, and — as The Sporting News outlined last week — the franchise spent greater than $170 million simply on the luxurious tax final season.

Will the Warriors proceed to spend massive to win massive? Or will the technique change as they transfer ahead?

Golden State won’t have the ability to retain all of their gamers, however one factor is obvious, the gamers appear desirous to have the same roster from this championship heading into next season.