Ian Begley: Sources: Willie Cauley-Stein has signed with Adie von Gontard of Young Money APAA Sports for representation. Cauley-Stein, who is not in the bubble due to personal reasons, has a $2.3 million player option for next season. Interesting young player for teams w/cap space like NYK
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Position: C
Born: 08/18/93
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:242 lbs. / 109.8 kg.
Salary: $2,177,483
Born: 08/18/93
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:242 lbs. / 109.8 kg.
Salary: $2,177,483
Marc Stein: Dallas’ forthcoming addition of veteran guard Trey Burke does not require an additional roster move after Willie Cauley-Stein’s decision to bypass playing in the NBA restart, which puts Lee on course to join the Mavericks’ traveling party of 37 at Disney World near Orlando
Brad Townsend: Carlisle: “In the end Trey Burke was the best player available.” Gave “Big props” to Cauley-Stein coming forward early to give Mavs advance notice that he intended to not go to Orlando.
Willie Cauley-Stein: The Corona virus has taken the world by storm and my thoughts are with everyone out there doing their part to put an end to this situation!! Let’s unite together in support with the CDC Foundation by donating to the Emergency Response Fund: bit.ly/COLIV20 pic.twitter.com/g3tXvaeBkU
Mark Followill: For tonight’s Mavs vs Nuggets game at 7p on @FOXSportsSW. Porzingis (left knee, injury recovery) and Seth Curry (left ankle sprain) are out. Cauley-Stein and Kidd-Gilchrist who were out due to illness in San Antonio last night are probable.
Eddie Sefko: Brunson, Curry. Cauley-Stein, Powell and Kidd-Gilchrist all ruled out for San Antonio Tuesday. Finney-Smith questionable. Maximum of 10 suites up.
Brad Townsend: Carlisle says Cauley-Stein will re-join Mavs in Chicago tonight.
Brad Townsend: Per 4:30 NBA injury report, @Luka Doncic (left thumb sprain) and Willie Cauley-Stein (personal reasons) are questionable for tomorrow’s game against Miami. But Rick Carlisle told us the soonest Cauley-Stein will rejoin Mavs is Monday.
Dwain Price: Carlisle said center Willie Cauley-Stein will not be with the team until next week due to personal reasons. @Dallas Mavericks
Eddie Sefko: Yes, it’s true, the latest injury report has Luka Doncic (right ankle soreness), Kristaps Porzingis (injury recovery) and Willie Cauley-Stein (personal reasons) out tonight. Seth Curry (right knee soreness) is questionable. Many ticket buyers in ATL might not be all that happy.
Eddie Sefko: Ryan Broekhoff (leg fracture) is active for the first time in 2020. He and Willie Cauley-Stein both could see action, Carlisle said.
Tim MacMahon: New Maverick Willie Cauley-Stein: “This is a great place to restart my career and try to find a home.” He says the Mavs’ system suits his style, specifically running pick-and-roll with Luka Doncic.
Brad Townsend: . @Mark Cuban calls Cauley-Stein acquisition “a steal-and-a-half. We got really lucky. And Dwight comes back, we’ll be even better at that position.”
Brad Townsend: Cauley-Stein will dress and be available.
Brad Townsend: Justin Jackson says he’s “hyped” that ex-Sacramento teammate @Willie Cauley-Stein is a Maverick. Jackson said he reached out to C-S this morning and that C-S was very excited to join the Mavs.
Tim MacMahon: Willie Cauley-Stein will meet the Mavs in OKC tomorrow night. He will not have any practice time with the team before Monday’s game vs. Thunder, and Rick Carlisle isn’t sure Cauley-Stein will be active for that game.
Willie Cauley-Stein officially a Maverick
Mavs PR: The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have acquired center Willie Cauley-Stein from the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Utah’s 2020 second-round pick. In a related move, Dallas has also requested waivers on center Justin Patton.
Brad Townsend: Patton hasn’t been waived, so Cauley-Stein deal not official. He’s not in SLC, 5 hours to tipoff vs. Jazz, so highly unlikely he plays. Ideal scenario would be to join Mavs in OKC and practice Sunday, but no word on that possibility. Once deal is finalized has 48 hours to report.
Tim MacMahon: The Mavs received $800,000 from the Thunder in the trade that sent Justin Patton to Dallas, per source. They’ll waive Patton, whose salary for next season is not guaranteed to clear the roster spot for Willie Cauley-Stein.
Brad Townsend: Patton cannot be waived tonight, so the Cauley-Stein deal won’t go through until tomorrow at soonest. No announcements on that front tonight.
Bobby Marks: The Golden State front office is not accustomed to making deals during the regular season. The last time they made a trade during the regular season was February 2014- Kent Bazemore/MarShon Brooks for Steve Blake.
Brad Townsend: Although Cauley-Stein deal hasn’t been announced, I’m told there are no wrinkles or holdups, there’s an order that must be followed. Notice the Mavs haven’t yet waived Patton. That’s the roster spot needed to add Cauley-Stein.
Willie Cauley-Stein: Love ✌🏽❤️🏀 Thank you #DubNation for the love this year. #MFFL 👋🏽 🎥: @iBurks
Before Friday, the Warriors didn’t have a second-round pick in six of the next seven drafts. But the pick acquired from Dallas, which will probably be in the 50-60 range because it initially belonged to Utah, is a minor asset when compared to the roster implications of dealing Cauley-Stein.
Bobby Marks: Dallas is acquiring Cauley-Stein with the $11.7M trade exception created from the Harrison Barnes trade last February. The exception is needed because WCS signed for part of the non-tax ML (slightly north of the minimum). Golden State will now have a $2.17M trade exception.
Shams Charania: Sources: Dallas is sending a Utah 2020 second-round pick to Golden State for Willie Cauley-Stein.
Bobby Marks: Golden State will now drop $2.57M below the hard cap. The trade will also save the Warriors $5.66M toward the luxury tax. The team now has a $9.3M tax bill and $3.7M above the threshold. The Warriors also have 2 open roster spots.
Willie Cauley-Stein to Dallas
Adrian Wojnarowski: Golden State is finalizing a deal to trade C Willie Cauley-Stein to Dallas, league sources tell ESPN.
Shams Charania: Source: Dallas has acquired center Willie Cauley-Stein from the Warriors.
Willie Cauley-Stein is another trade option. However, there are questions about his value on the open market. He has a player option, so the Warriors don’t have control over him next season. There is also still interest in seeing how he fits when the real team is healthy. Being on the floor with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and D’Angelo Russell has a way of making most big men look better. And Cauley-Stein has improved from his earlier struggles.
Sean Cunningham: Former King Willie Cauley-Stein feels good being back in Sacramento, looking forward to playing against old team tonight. Says he expects both love & hate from the crowd – but “a lot of love.” @Willie Cauley-Stein
Connor Letourneau: Willie Cauley-Stein (flu-like symptoms) will play tonight. Kevon Looney (abdominal soreness) is out tonight, but Kerr is hopeful he’ll be back next week.
Logan Murdock: Steve Kerr on Willie Cauley-Stein’s availability against the Spurs (he was listed as doubtful last night): “Willie’s not in San Antonio so he’s beyond doubtful.”
Kerith Burke: There’s an illness going thru the Warriors locker room. Willie Cauley-Stein and D’Angelo Russell will be OUT for the game against the Spurs. Ky Bowman was called up, but held out of practice today to manage his two-way days.
A 7-foot, 240-pound hipster who appreciates hip-hop, street art and his hometown of Spearville, Kan. (population: 793), he has long seized the chance to defy stereotypes. “That’s the biggest thing with society is we’re quick to judge a book by its cover,” said Cauley-Stein, who signed a two-year, $4.4 million deal — with a player option on the second season — with the Warriors in July. “I love going against the grain.”
That explains why Cauley-Stein, who went No. 6 overall to the Kings in the 2015 NBA draft largely for his potential as an interior defender, bristles at the notion that he must limit himself to dunks and blocked shots. As he put it, “I’m not a center; I just happen to play that role.”
Monte Poole: ‘I’ve been on teams where they don’t like each other . . . and it’s a bad work in environment. That’s one thing that I really have to say about (Warriors). The work environment is crazy. You have no choice but to get better if you come here.’ -Willie Cauley-Stein 12/19/19
By the end of his tenure, Cauley-Stein had two head coaches in three years. The Kings never made the postseason, holding true to the perception he heard about Sacramento when he was drafted. “Before I got drafted there, [University of Kentucky] coach [John Calipari] kind of warned me what that organization was like already,” Cauley-Stein admitted. “So, I mean, I just went in there just trying to get better. Every year just try to keep on getting better, and that’s the way I approached the game and every day.”
Anthony Slater: Kevon Looney will start at power forward tonight in Atlanta, next to Willie Cauley-Stein. Returns after 20 missed games. Will play in short bursts.
“With the face tats and all the jewelry and swagger, it just intimidates people,” Cauley-Stein told The Undefeated. “I’m a shy dude, believe it or not. I’m not going to go be the first one to talk to you, even if I wanted to. … Most of the time I got this look on my face like I really want to talk to you, but I don’t know how to talk to you. It’s mutual. “They don’t know how to come up to you either. They say, ‘Man, you got tattoos on your face.’ The first thing that they see. They’re not even looking in your eyes. They’re looking at the tattoos on your face. I made that perception on me because I felt like that’s part of my movement. I want to look like the ’hood but … I want to get past the perception of what people put on people. The stigma that they put on, on people that look like me.”
Willie Cauley-Stein: I had some tattoos [at Kentucky], but I hadn’t really gone crazy. And my mom was like, ‘You don’t go crazy.’ She knew all the things that come with having tattoos. She’s more tattooed than me, so she gets the stigma on it. And, to me, I want that. I want people to look at me, think I’m some thug and then talk to me and realize this dude is intelligent. Just completely different than what we thought. And that’s my whole movement. You can’t look at me and already put some tag on me and then not even have a conversation and confirm your tag.
Why did you sign with the Warriors last offseason? Willie Cauley-Stein: In Sacramento, they put a tag on me that I wasn’t invested or I didn’t care about hoops like that. A lot of stuff that this platform exited out. You can’t go to one coach or one trainer in that facility and say I don’t work hard. But that’s one thing that they used to say. ‘Oh, he don’t work hard enough, blah, blah, blah.’ Dude, you don’t know how hard I’m working. So, that was like the biggest thing for me was the clout that this team has. The championship. Got wins. But most importantly, they get it. They get it from a perspective that some teams can’t even get close to touching. … If I wasn’t invested in hoops, I would not come to the Warriors. The stage is too hard. Everybody’s looking at this. If I didn’t really like hoops, I’m going to go get a bag somewhere else. A little pretty bag.
You have a player option for next season, but it appears you love it with the Warriors. Willie Cauley-Stein: I love the guys. I love the environment. I love the city. And I haven’t been in a city like this. It’s all new and energizing in a way. And there is a lot of opportunity to grow in life, period, not just hoops. And that all comes from just being around these group of guys and the group of coaches, the atmosphere around the city.
