{"id":4641,"date":"2025-10-01T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:23:04","slug":"al-horford-set-to-join-warriors-on-multiyear-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4641","title":{"rendered":"Al Horford set to join Warriors on multiyear contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Free agent center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3213\/al-horford\">Al Horford<\/a> has committed to sign a multiyear contract with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\">Golden State Warriors<\/a>, agent Jason Glushon told ESPN on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After spending seven of the past nine years with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2ca761df-5f60-b2e9-22ed-e099c46d889b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\">Boston Celtics<\/a>, including their 2023-24 NBA championship season, Horford enters his 19th year in the league as the Warriors&#8217; new starting center.<\/p>\n<p>Horford verbally committed to the Warriors on Sunday, sources said. The sides are working through the final financial terms, with a signing in the coming days after the final decision from restricted free agent <a data-player-guid=\"fa4aeb82-1488-3163-b374-4e0cdd9cb23a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433247\/jonathan-kuminga\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>, a source said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Horford was the Warriors&#8217; top center target entering free agency in July as the 39-year-old pondered playing for Golden State or retirement. Horford is among a few free agents who have been awaiting a decision from Kuminga but chose Sunday to commit to a multiyear contract.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 9.0 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists while shooting 36.3% from behind the arc on 5.2 attempts per game last season. Used deliberately last season, Horford started 42 of the 60 games he played for the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>Horford, who has made over 100 3-pointers in each of the past three seasons while shooting 41% from long range, is seen as an ideal fit around the Warriors&#8217; big three of <a data-player-guid=\"5dda51f1-50c9-66e1-2026-400b73f34fad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3975\/stephen-curry\">Stephen Curry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6430\/jimmy-butler-iii\">Jimmy Butler III<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"de360720-e416-25f2-8a6b-b5ff82616cb1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6589\/draymond-green\">Draymond Green<\/a>. Offensively, the Warriors believe his size, floor-spacing, passing and defensive instincts will significantly upgrade their center position.<\/p>\n<p>Horford had a 46% effective field goal percentage allowed when defending isolations last season, which was seventh best in the NBA, according to GeniusIQ. Horford also defended the sixth-most isolations in 2024-25 and remains one of the top big men with the ability to switch on wing players.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of four players with 900 made 3-pointers and 1,300 blocks in NBA history, along with Rasheed Wallace, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3448\/brook-lopez\">Brook Lopez<\/a> and Clifford Robinson.\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46409811\/al-horford-set-join-warriors-multiyear-contract\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent center Al Horford has committed to sign a multiyear contract with the Golden State Warriors, agent Jason Glushon told ESPN on Sunday. After spending seven of the past nine years with the Boston Celtics, including their 2023-24 NBA championship season, Horford enters his 19th year in the league as the Warriors&#8217; new starting &#8230; <a title=\"Al Horford set to join Warriors on multiyear contract\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4641\" aria-label=\"Read more about Al Horford set to join Warriors on multiyear contract\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Al-Horford-set-to-join-Warriors-on-multiyear-contract.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4643,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}