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How everyone’s takes about the Warriors have turned out. Click a column to sort.
| NFNick Friedell | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1.000 | 6.0 | 43 | +120 |
 Zach Lowe | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1.000 | 7.8 | 41 | +78 |
 Anthony Dabbundo | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
 Cousin Sal | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
 Joe House | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
 Raheem Palmer | 0 | 0 | 3 | — | — | — | — |
 Rob Mahoney | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
 Bill Simmons | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | 2.8 | 40 | 0 |
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DEN 114·Final·Close DEN -6.5→Takes about the Warriors
- The Warriors might challenge for a play-in spot.
“a team like the golden state words, we're going to challenge for the play in”
- The Warriors go under their season win total.
Restated season bet.
“Warriors finally get a win because Simmons and I talked about how we're pounding their win total under.”
- The Warriors lose to the Nuggets tomorrow and fall to 0–4.
“Golden State plays tomorrow against Denver and they're going to be 0 -4.”
Lost by 20
- The Warriors probably win well under 34.5 games.
Warriors' win total had dropped to about 34.5.
“I think it's an under all the way to 30.”
- The Warriors are one of the worst teams in the West, bottom three.
He says you can play the Warriors' win-total under.
“I mean, I think you can play there under now again, even after they lost game one, this team is going to be one of the worst teams in the Western conference.”
- The Warriors can go under their win total.
“I think you can play there under now again”
- The Warriors finish under their preseason win total.
Restating his preseason NBA over/under pick.
“I locked that as the under.”
- The Warriors aren't even a competitive play-in team this season.
“with them, not even really being a competitive play in team”
- The Warriors go under their win total.
“but I go under on the warriors”
- The Warriors win fewer than 36.5 games.
Win total of 36.5; Bill locked it in the recap. House: 'It's a big under for me.'
“Golden State under 36 and a half I'm locking this”
- The Warriors finish in the 4–10 lottery range.
“I think this is a 4 -10 team”
- The Warriors aren't a good playoff-caliber team.
“I just don't see how there's like a good playoff caliber basketball team there”
- The Warriors hover around .500, maybe a few games below, most of the year.
“I think this is a team that's going to hover somewhere around 500, maybe a few games below most of the year”
- The Warriors, as constructed, aren't close enough to contend.
“This team though, as they're constructed, isn't close enough.”
- At the trade deadline, the Warriors are right around the lottery sweet spot.
“i think they're going to be right around the sweet spot where the new lottery system really helps them”
- The Warriors keep Kristaps Porzingis's contract on the books for trade purposes at least through this season.
“I feel like they're going to keep his contract on the books for trade purposes, at least through this season, and then decide.”
- Brandin Podziemski signs an extension before the deadline.
“So I'd be surprised if you and I are talking a couple weeks from now and it's not done.”
The Warriors announced Podziemski's five-year, $110M rookie-scale extension on Oct. 10, 2026, nine days before the Oct. 19 deadline and two days after the podcast was recorded.
- Source: NBA.com (AP) ↗ Warriors sign Brandin Podziemski to contract extension · Oct 11, 2026
- A Podziemski extension comes in around $20 million a year, maybe a little more.
“It always felt like it would be somewhere around 20 to me, maybe a little more depending on the market.”
Podziemski signed a 5-year, $110M extension on Oct 10, 2026, which averages $22M a year. Salaries run $18.9M to $25M, and the four guaranteed years average about $21.2M.
- Source: Golden State of Mind ↗ Warriors sign Brandin Podziemski to 5-year, $110 million extension · Oct 11, 2026
- Brandin Podziemski gets an extension at a salary right around his $17 million cap hold.
Podziemski's cap hold is $17 million.
“I would bet on an extension with Pajemski happening, but right around that cap hold number”
On Oct 10, 2026 the Warriors and Podziemski agreed to a 5-year, $110M extension. Year-one salary is $18.9M, under $2M above the $17M cap hold, as Lowe predicted.
- Source: Hoops Rumors ↗ Warriors Sign Brandin Podziemski To Five-Year Extension · Oct 10, 2026
- Yaxel Lendeborg can get into the Rookie of the Year running if he's good on both ends.
“their yaxel being in the running potentially for the rookie of”
- The Warriors don't make the play-in tournament.
Replying to Lowe saying the Warriors are at risk of missing the play-in tournament, not just the playoffs.
“they aren't gonna make it”
- The Warriors are the 10th-best team in the West and very much at risk of missing the play-in.
“i think they're the 10th best team in the west”
- Yaxel Lendeborg makes an All-Rookie team.
“who I think will make an all rookie team for sure”
