Kevon Looney Rumors

Looney, who signed a two-year free-agent contract with the New Orleans Pelicans last week, joined Marcus Thompson II on the "Warriors Plus/Minus" podcast and shared how he felt a bit slighted by some of Warriors coach Steve Kerr's rotation decisions, including the choice to play then-rookie Quinten Post over him, particularly in the playoffs. "I guess," Looney said when Thompson II asked him if Post was the final straw for him. "I wouldn't say it like that, but it was anybody but me it seemed like at this point. It wasn't no one moment. Even this year, probably the playoffs. We going up against Steven Adams. This is what I do. They're not really giving me the chance to really let me do what I do. "It's like, 'All right, y'all don't trust me? I thought y'all trusted me.' They put me at the end in Game 7, it's like why'd we have to wait for that point?"

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While Looney felt some type of way about Kerr's decisions, he knows it's not personal. "I just know it's never personal with Steve," Looney said. "He's going to do whatever is best to try to win. It ain't just me. He's done this to everybody. I might've been the one it was happening to the most because I was here the longest. I know it's not personal. He just wants to win. "You can't be mad because the results showed that. It usually worked. You talk about sacrifice and win, he's going to really test that sacrifice part."

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Michael Scotto: Update: The New Orleans Pelicans have a second-year team option included in the two-year, $16 million deal with Kevon Looney, league sources told @hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social . Looney left the Golden State Warriors in free agency after winning three championships in 10 seasons with the franchise.

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Michael Scotto: Update: The New Orleans Pelicans have a second-year team option included in the two-year, $16 million deal with Kevon Looney, league sources told @hoopshype . Looney left the Golden State Warriors in free agency after winning three championships in 10 seasons with the franchise.

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Warriors head coach Steve Kerr sent a message to Kevon Looney via the team’s 'X' account, expressing his gratitude to the big man after the center’s signing with the New Orleans Pelicans became official. “Just want to say thank you,” Kerr started as he stood in front of greenery recording his farewell message to Looney. “This is a tough one. Ten years, it’s just been an amazing experience for me to coach you. “Just your professionalism, your dignity, your class, the way you handled yourself, the way you mentor your young teammates and, of course, the championship contributions you made year after year.”

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Kevon Looney: Whew, this is not gonna be easy. I honestly don’t even know where to start. It’s like…. How do you say goodbye to a place that practically raised you in a lot of ways? A place that saw you go from a boy to a man? A place where you’ve made so many lifelong friends and experienced some of the best times imaginable? I have so much to be grateful and appreciative for over the past 10 years. This place, it’s truly changed my life forever. In some ways, I feel like I’ve been in the Bay so long that lots of people kinda forget that back when I got drafted by the Warriors, I was barely out of high school. Still just a kid, 19 years old. And looking back on that time now, I was pretty much the luckiest man in the world … when you think about what I walked into.

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Kevon Looney: I had hip surgery before the season started, so I was out for a big chunk of that year, but I remember coming home from practices and talking with my folks, or friends back in Milwaukee and being like: “No joke, Steph … you don’t even understand. It’s insane. I’m pretty sure he’s the best player I’ve ever seen in my life.” We lost nine games all season. Nine. Total. For the entire regular season, 73–9. Like are you kidding me? Obviously I can’t take any credit at all for that excellence, but I can tell you that it was fun as hell to watch from up close. Steph and Klay and them, they like to say that I didn’t talk to anyone for the first six months. And I dispute that for sure. But I will admit that I only really started being myself after I saw Coach Kerr and Draymond screaming at each other during that game at OKC when Steph hit the half-court buzzer beater in OT.

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Kevon Looney: I hope they know how grateful I am. How thankful. I hope you all know. Truly. Everyone in the Bay, and Warriors fans around the world. Because these past 10 years have been more than I ever could have dreamed of. So, yeah, before we hung up those phones, it was like…. “What a journey we all went on together!” “Ten amazing years.” “It’s been one hell of a ride!” Not every ending has gotta be a sad ending. I’m leaving the Bay with a huge smile on my face. Thank you for the ride.

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League sources say Golden State remains a leading contender to sign Al Horford away from Boston as a much-needed move to bolster a frontcourt rotation that is no longer home to Warrior-turned-New Orleans Pelican Kevon Looney.

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The Warriors couldn’t afford to offer him more than the veteran’s minimum without eating into their resources for upgrades. So they did what they usually do — send Looney out into a bear market to see if he could get a better offer. Usually, he couldn’t and came back to the Warriors. The $8 million he made last season was the highest salary of his career. Staying with the Warriors would have meant a nearly $5 million pay cut. But for the first time in his career, the market valued him more than the Warriors. Looney got paid. An era has ended. The Warriors will have to find a new backbone.

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Dalton Johnson: Jordan Poole is very happy to reunite with Kevon Looney

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"With Kevon Looney gone now, all signs look like it points to Al Horford (to the Warriors)" - @NotoriousOHM

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Shams Charania: Free agent center Kevon Looney has agreed to a two-year, $16 million deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, sources tell ESPN. Life Sports Agency CEO Todd Ramasar and the Pelicans reached a deal tonight for the three-time NBA champion who departs Golden State after 10 years.

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Ohm Youngmisuk: Kevon Looney, who will be a free agent, wants to return: "I hope the feeling is mutual... they expressed (they want him to return) but it's the NBA. There's a lot of time until free agency starts. Let's see what happens."

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