Podziemski agrees to five-year, $110 million extension with Warriors
Brandin Podziemski has agreed to a five-year, $110 million fully guaranteed rookie-scale contract extension with the Golden State Warriors, his agent Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN's Shams Charania on Oct. 10. The deal includes a mutual option in the fifth year, 2031-32, and a trade kicker, according to Charania.
The year-by-year salaries, any incentives and the size of the trade kicker were not disclosed. ESPN described the $110 million as fully guaranteed while also reporting the fifth-year mutual option, and the reporting does not say how the two fit together.
FanSided put the deal's average annual salary at $22 million. The outlet estimated his first-year salary at $18.9 million against the $17 million cap hold he would have carried next summer, a gap FanSided said costs the Warriors just under $2 million in potential cap space.
FanSided wrote that Golden State could still produce max cap space if it moves on from Kristaps Porzingis and does not pay big money to Jimmy Butler or Draymond Green on their next deals. The outlet described Podziemski as a career 37.5% three-point shooter.
Last season, on a $3.7 million salary, Podziemski ranked 279th of 435 rated players by pay and 78th by production, a total built across all 82 of the Warriors' games. In 2024-25 the same gap ran 275th by salary against 109th by production.
That 2025-26 return earned a WAGE Score of 81, in the Smart Money tier. His cost per unit of production was the 29th cheapest among the 399 rated players whose production was above zero.
A $22 million salary would have ranked 79th by pay last season, one place behind his production rank. The ten players paid closest to it had a middle production rank of 226th, figures that describe what such salaries bought in 2025-26, not what the extension will buy.
The Warriors have not announced the extension, and the agreement rests on the agent's account to ESPN.