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Draymond Green

Draymond Green remains a build-specific assists-and-stocks forward, but his Warriors projection is conditional because he declined his player option and had not signed a replacement deal by the cutoff.

Team: Golden State Warriors · Age: 36 · Position: PF/C · Status: unrestricted free agent; expected return · As of: 2026-07-18

2026-27 conditional median

GP MPG FG% FT% 3PM PTS REB AST STL BLK TO
62 27.0 .430 .710 1.2 7.9 5.5 5.7 1.0 0.7 2.6

Nine-cat: top-115 to top-160 overall; substantially better in punt-points builds. Points: B- where assists/stocks score well. Dynasty: 4.0/10. Opening-night allocation if re-signed: 28 minutes.

Contract and role

Green declined his $27.7 million 2026-27 option; the league listed him among players who declined (NBA options tracker). Reporting expected a new multiyear Warriors deal at a lower first-year salary, but no official signing was located by July 18. The team page therefore uses his return as a named assumption rather than a fact.

In 2025-26 he averaged 8.4 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 0.9 steals, 0.6 blocks, and 1.5 threes in 27.5 minutes over 68 games, with .418 FG and .702 FT (ESPN). Those assists are scarce at PF/C, but low scoring, poor ratios, and 2.7 turnovers explain why real-basketball importance exceeds standard nine-cat rank.

Porziņģis and Horford allow Green to play fewer center minutes, while Lendeborg gives the team an athletic forward alternative. Curry's availability is a direct efficiency input: without Curry, Green's passing remains useful but creates fewer high-value assists.

Range

Career record

Pre-NBA: Michigan State, four seasons under Tom Izzo (2008-09 through 2011-12). He arrived as a reserve big — 3.3 points and 3.3 rebounds in 37 games as a freshman on .556 shooting — and left as the Big Ten's best player: 9.9/7.7/3.0 as a sophomore, 12.6/8.6/4.1 as a junior, then 16.2 points, 10.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists as a senior on .449 FG/.388 3PT/.723 FT. He won 2012 Big Ten Player of the Year, consensus first-team All-American and NABC National Player of the Year, and reached Final Fours in 2009 and 2010. Draft: 2012, second round, 35th overall, Golden State Warriors; no draft-night trade.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2012-13 22 GSW 79 13.4 2.9 3.3 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.2 .327 .818 0.6
2013-14 23 GSW 82 21.9 6.2 5.0 1.9 1.2 0.9 0.7 .407 .667 1.1
2014-15 24 GSW 79 31.5 11.7 8.2 3.7 1.6 1.3 1.4 .443 .660 1.7
2015-16 25 GSW 81 34.7 14.0 9.5 7.4 1.5 1.4 1.2 .490 .696 3.2
2016-17 26 GSW 76 32.5 10.2 7.9 7.0 2.0 1.4 1.1 .418 .709 2.4
2017-18 27 GSW 70 32.7 11.0 7.6 7.3 1.4 1.3 1.1 .454 .775 2.9
2018-19 28 GSW 66 31.3 7.4 7.3 6.9 1.4 1.1 0.7 .445 .692 2.6
2019-20 29 GSW 43 28.4 8.0 6.2 6.2 1.4 0.8 0.8 .389 .759 2.3
2020-21 30 GSW 63 31.5 7.0 7.1 8.9 1.7 0.8 0.5 .447 .795 3.0
2021-22 31 GSW 46 28.9 7.5 7.3 7.0 1.3 1.1 0.3 .525 .659 3.0
2022-23 32 GSW 73 31.5 8.5 7.2 6.8 1.0 0.8 0.5 .527 .713 2.8
2023-24 33 GSW 55 27.1 8.6 7.2 6.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 .497 .730 2.5
2024-25 34 GSW 68 29.2 9.0 6.1 5.6 1.5 1.0 1.2 .424 .687 2.6
2025-26 35 GSW 68 27.5 8.4 5.5 5.5 0.9 0.6 1.5 .418 .702 2.7
Career GSW 949 28.6 8.7 6.8 5.6 1.3 1.0 0.9 .447 .710 2.3

Fourteen seasons, all with Golden State — no traded seasons and no multi-team rows. Four championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022), 2017 Defensive Player of the Year, four All-Star selections, All-NBA Second Team in 2016 and Third Team in 2017, and nine All-Defensive selections including First Team in 2025.

Fantasy history: Season-end nine-category ranks are not verifiable from public archives for most of this career, so specific finishes are not asserted here. The shape is clear from the line: his two genuine top-shelf category seasons were 2015-16 (14.0/9.5/7.4 with 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks) and 2016-17 (league-leading 2.0 steals plus 1.4 blocks), when he combined a fifth-category assist total with two stock categories from a big. Every season since 2018-19 has been specialist territory: assists and stocks carry him, sub-.450 FG on low volume and 2.5-3.2 turnovers cap him. The one rank located for 2025-26 is a preseason nine-cat estimate of roughly 97th overall from Pro Football Network, not a season-end result. In points leagues the shape is materially worse than the category shape — 8.7 career points and a heavy turnover count give him almost no scoring base, so he is a category-format asset first and a points-format afterthought.

Durability: 79, 82, 79, 81, 76, 70, 66, 43, 63, 46, 73, 55, 68, 68. The 43-game 2019-20 was the post-Durant rebuild year with a torn finger ligament and knee soreness compounding a season Golden State had no reason to push. The 46-game 2021-22 was a lower-back disc issue and calf strain that cost him roughly two months from January to March. The 55-game 2023-24 was mostly discipline, not health: a five-game suspension in November 2023 for the Rudy Gobert headlock and an indefinite suspension in December 2023 after striking Jusuf Nurkić, which cost 12 more games. In 2025-26 he was the most available of Golden State's veterans at 68 games — a right midfoot sprain in December 2025, a right ankle sprain in January 2026, and a post-All-Star-break back issue in late February 2026 accounted for the absences. The pattern since 2019 is a stable 60-70 game player when not suspended, with back and lower-leg soft tissue as the recurring risks.

Trajectory: The leap was 2014-15, when David Lee's injury opened the starting power forward job and Green went from 21.9 to 31.5 minutes; the second leap, 2015-16, was pure role rather than minutes, as Golden State handed him the offensive hub responsibilities that produced 7.4 assists from a big. Everything after 2017-18 is a controlled decline in scoring with the passing preserved: assists have fallen from 8.9 in 2020-21 to 5.5 last season, and the per-minute erosion is real rather than a minutes artifact, since his MPG has held between 27 and 31.5 across that whole stretch. The 2025-26 line is the first with visible defensive slippage — 0.9 steals and 0.6 blocks are both career lows outside his rookie year, and rebounds at 5.5 are the lowest of his career as a starter, which is what an age-35 defender losing a step looks like in the box score. The offsetting development is the three-ball: 1.5 makes per game on the season is a career high, a deliberate shot-diet shift toward standing in the corner as Golden State's floor spacing thinned. For 2026-27 at age 36, the honest read is that the assists are the last durable elite category and the stocks are no longer bankable, which is exactly why his standard-league value now depends on build fit rather than on raw production.

Career sources: ESPN career stats · StatMuse season-by-season · Wikipedia — college stats, awards, draft · ESPN — 2025-26 foot sprain absence

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