East Oakland native Juan Toscano-Anderson will likely not return to the Golden State Warriors next season after the team decided against extending a qualifying offer to the forward before Wednesday’s deadline, according to a report from The Athletic’s Anthony Slater.
Toscano-Anderson will officially become a free agent on Thursday at 3 p.m. and is free to join any team. Had the Warriors decided to extend a qualifying offer, it would have paid the 29-year-old $2.1 million.
As Slater noted in his tweet about the news, Toscano-Anderson (sometimes known as JTA) and Chris Chiozza, whom the Warriors also declined to extend a qualifying offer to, are “unlikely to return to the Warriors.