Looney preparing for great unknown of Warriors, NBA future

Looney preparing for great unknown of Warriors, NBA future originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

The clock is ticking. Questions keep coming and coming. Klay Thompson in under three weeks is set to become an unrestricted free agent, putting his Warriors’ future in considerable uncertainty.

Thompson has played his entire 13-year career for the Warriors, including the two seasons he missed due to separate leg injuries, becoming a franchise legend with four championship rings along the way. He would be the first of the Warriors’ Big Three – Thompson, Steph Curry and Draymond Green – to change teams.

But Klay isn’t the only member of the Warriors’ core from multiple titles whose days as part of the team soon could be done.

Kevon Looney hit a roadblock in his ninth NBA season, a year after the best of his career. He’s doing everything in his power to make sure it was an obstacle and not a dead end. Looney also knows what’s next isn’t entirely up to himself.

The Warriors’ center joined his longtime teammate Draymond Green after Game 2 of the 2024 NBA Finals on the “Draymond Green Show” to talk about the Boston Celtics’ win against the Dallas Mavericks and different stories over their near-decade together in Golden State. The last question Green asked Looney wasn’t about looking at the past, but what’s next for him and the Warriors.

“The ball isn’t in my court,” Looney said. “I don’t have full control over my destiny, so I kind of have to play the waiting game, control what I can control. I’ve been here my whole career. I don’t know nothing else. You always want to finish what you started and be somewhere for your whole career, but I’ve been in this business long enough to know that’s not realistic. I’m preparing myself for whatever. My family’s out here, the Bay’s been great to me. They treat me like family, I grew up here.

“I haven’t really thought about it too far. I’m trying to see what they’re going to do first before I push the envelope and see what I want to do.”

Looney, 28, signed a three-year, $22.5 million contract as a free agent in 2022 to remain a Warrior after winning his…

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Publish date : 2024-06-10 15:00:33

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