Three years and $50 million?
According to several league executives, that is likely to be what it takes to land Warriors restricted free agent center Festus Ezeli this summer. “Obviously there are health issues you’re worried about,” one general manager told Sporting News. “So I don’t think you’d want to go beyond three years. But he still has a lot of upside and he can get better in a bigger role.”
Ezeli has been thrust back into the spotlight after seeing his role dry up in the playoffs. The Warriors have tended to go smaller in the postseason the last two years, and Ezeli averaged 8.