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Warriors waive veterans Rudy Gay and Rodney McGruder after preseason finale

The Warriors will reportedly start the season with 13 players on the roster.

After their preseason finale, the Golden State Warriors went right into business mode. Following their loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night, the Warriors waived two players as they trimmed their roster down for the start of the regular season.

Late on Friday night, the Warriors waived veterans Rudy Gay and Rodney McGruder. With both McGruder and Gay waived, the Warriors are expected to start the season with 13 players on the roster, per Anthony Slater of The Athletic. 

Via @anthonyVslater on Twitter:

https://x.com/anthonyVslater/status/1715598798301679851?s=20

The Warriors will have to add a 14th player before the two-week mark in the NBA season. During the offseason, the Warriors brought in a flurry of veterans to work out and compete for their 14th roster spot, including Gay, McGruder and Dwight Howard.

While Gay did not play on Friday night, McGruder scored eight points on 3-of-9 shooting from the field in 20 minutes off the bench in the Warriors’ 122-117 loss.

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Report: Warriors finalizing deal with veteran wing Rodney McGruder

The Warriors are reportedly signing veteran wing Rodney McGruder before training camp gets underway.

With the start of training camp on the horizon, the Golden State Warriors are making final touches to their roster. With Dwight Howard’s signing reportedly unlikely, the Warriors are adding a different veteran before camp.

According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Warriors are signing veteran guard Rodney McGruder. The former Detroit Pistons guard will compete for a roster spot during camp, per Charania.

Via @ShamsCharania on Twitter:

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1706406376661020717?s=20

Since coming out of Kansas State in 2016, McGruder has played for the Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers and Pistons. The 31-year-old wing played three seasons in Detroit before becoming a free agent this summer. Last year, McGruder averaged 5.7 points on 54.3% shooting from the field and 42.3% from the field in 32 games.

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Pistons’ Wayne Ellington responds to Klay Thompson, Draymond Green’s comments on Rodney McGruder

Pistons’ veteran guard Wayne Ellington is the latest to chime in on Draymond Green and Klay Thompson’s comments on Rodney McGruder.

Steph Curry dropped a game-high 28 points in the Golden State Warriors’ 118-91 blowout win over the Detroit Pistons. However, the contest between Detroit and Golden State is making headlines for other reasons.

With the game coming to an end and players clearing the court, Detroit shooting guard Rodney McGruder appeared to exchange a contentious back and forth with Golden State’s bench. During the quarrel, Klay Thompson was playing the role as a sideline reporter. While Thompson waited for Curry to take the mic for a postgame interview, the sharpshooting guard fired a shot at McGruder.

When asked what McGruder was doing while speaking with Golden State’s bench, Thompson answered with, “I don’t know. This dude might be out of the league soon. He’s probably mad about that. Who knows?” After the game, Draymond Green sounded off on McGruder, questioning when the Detroit guard became a “tough guy.”

Via @BleacherReport on Twitter:

On Sunday, Detroit’s Wayne Ellington weighed in on the issue. The veteran shooting guard called Thompson and Green’s remarks about McGruder’s career “unprofessional and definitely no class.” Ellington went on to call Green’s criticism of his teammate “fake tough guy stuff.”

Read Ellington’s full comments via @denewsRodBeard on Twitter:

Although players from each side have traded jabs, the pair of teams won’t match up on the court until next season. The Warriors have swept the season series against the Pistons with two victories.

With both the Warriors and Pistons in action against new opponents on Tuesday, the new rivalry will likely blow over.

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The Warriors and the Pistons’ Rodney McGruder are in the middle of a heated spat

NBA beef!

There was something going on the NBA this weekend — there was so much beef!

This time, we got kind of a weird one to me: Detroit Pistons guard Rodney McGruder angered basically the entire Golden State Warriors team, and it led to some harsh words from Draymond Green and Klay Thompson.

Yes, the same Klay Thompson who will miss the year after an Achilles injury. Thompson was on the mic during the Warriors’ win over the Pistons on Saturday, and as McGruder had words with the Dubs at the end of the game, Thompson was savage.

“This dude might be out [of the league soon, he’s probably mad about that, who knows?” Thompson said. “He’s over here, trying to start something like he’s a good player or something.”

Ouch. And then Green jumped in (WARNING: there’s some NSFW langauge here) and laughed it off while ripping McGruder:

Teammate Juan ToscanoAnderson approved:

We now go back to the Pistons, where McGruder teammate Wayne Ellington fired back (via MLive.com):

“First of all, I think is very unprofessional and definitely not classy for somebody to attack Rodney’s professional career the way that it was attacked,” Ellington said. “Rodney, I’ve known him since we’ve played in Miami together with the Heat. He’s one of the most hard-working, humble and down-to-earth, guys that there is in this league. So, for somebody to try to attack him like that I think is very unfair.

“And then, guys call him, you know all this tough guy talking all this stuff. Rod has never, ever tried to portray or act like a tough guy ever in this league. To be honest, the guy over there, Juan, he’s the one who started the whole thing. Rod is a man of respect, like myself, and I felt like he took offense to whatever the guy was saying to me in the first half. I just kind of laughed it off and kept on going. But obviously stuck with Rod and as my brother, he took it upon himself to go and check the temperature on the situation, — and that’s what men do. We talk to each other eye-to-eye, face-to-face. So, you know there. There’s never been any type of some guy approach with Rod.

“So, for Draymond to sit up and talk all that type of crazy stuff behind a microphone, I think that’s the fake tough guy stuff, to be honest with you. So, I’m only gonna talk about this situation once man and put it behind us. But I just I just think it’s unfair for them guys to attack my man, like that, and I appreciate Rod and I love him like a brother for whatever he did do that I know wasn’t tough guy stuff. He just probably walked over there to try to clear the air with the guy.”

Well then!

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