- Position
- F
- Number
- #32
- Age
- 33
- Pieces here
- 18
On the record
Called Shots →At least one of Brandon Williams, Georges Niang and Dalen Terry is on Golden State's opening-night roster for 2026-27.
Georges Niang appears in fewer than 40 regular-season games for Golden State in 2026-27.
Georges Niang is under a standard contract with the Golden State Warriors on January 11, 2027.
Will Richard is in Golden State's starting five against the Miami Heat at Chase Center on Thursday, November 5, 2026, by ESPN's box score for event 401909937. If the game is not played that night, VOID.
Georges Niang plays at least 110 total minutes in Golden State's five games from New Orleans on Monday, November 9, 2026, through Dallas on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 (vs NOP, at HOU, at SAS, at NOP, at DAL), summing the whole-number minutes in ESPN's box score for each game. A game he does not play counts as zero. If any of the five is postponed past November 18, VOID.
Written about him
Lendeborg's minus 33 is mostly a number about Curry's minutes without him
Basketball-Reference lists Yaxel Lendeborg at -33.1 On-Off through ten games, next to a PER of 20.2 and a true shooting percentage of .630. The number is two team results subtracted: Golden State is about 3 points per 100 possessions worse than its opponents in his 323 minutes and 20 to 30 better in the 162 minutes he sits. A replay of ESPN's play-by-play puts the on-court figure at -2.5 and the gap at 22. Curry was on the floor for 120 of the 162 off minutes, and those 120 minutes are plus 60. Curry's presence beside Lendeborg does not move the rookie's own on-court number; Draymond Green's presence moves it 19 points down and Georges Niang's 16 points up. The off column is about 320 possessions, and a bootstrap over the replayed stints puts its 90 percent range at plus 2 to plus 38 per 100.
Richard's thumb opens a starting job, and Niang keeps winning from the bench
Golden State beat Phoenix, Miami and Orlando from November 2 to November 7 by a combined 30 points. Georges Niang came off the bench in all three, played just under 70 minutes and was plus 49, tied with Stephen Curry for the team's best. The starting five of Curry, Draymond Green, Yaxel Lendeborg, Brandin Podziemski and Will Richard was outscored by 25 in 13.5 minutes across Richard's two starts. Richard has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb and is out against New Orleans on Monday, November 9, with no timetable; Gui Santos is listed as probable.
Georges Niang's New Contract Protects The Warriors Against Georges Niang's Foot
Georges Niang's one-year minimum deal with Golden State is only partially guaranteed at $1,838,009 against a full-season salary of $3,876,529, and it carries Exhibit 3 language protecting the club if he has further trouble with the left foot that cost him all of 2025-26. Brandon Williams' deal is entirely non-guaranteed until he makes the opening-night roster. Charles Bassey's salary does not lock until January. Twelve of Golden State's standard contracts are fully guaranteed and three are not, which is the number that matters with training camp opening at BYU-Hawaii on September 29. Dalen Terry signed a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 on August 28 and Alex Toohey agreed to one on September 9, both of them convertible to the third two-way spot the club has left open, and 2026 draft pick Lajae Jones is still unsigned. Two takes filed, on Jones and on whether Niang is still here in January.
Georges Niang Missed All Of Last Season. The Warriors Just Gave Him Their Fifteenth Job.
Golden State agreed to terms with forward Georges Niang on Tuesday, one year at a reported $3.9 million, filling the fifteenth and final standard roster spot a day after agreeing with guard Brandon Williams. The club's own roster page carries both men. Niang has not appeared in an NBA game since April 11, 2025, when he played 16 minutes for Atlanta at Philadelphia; he missed all of 2025-26 after Utah diagnosed a fourth metatarsal stress reaction in his left foot on September 27, 2025, and was traded and waived while rehabbing. He has made 457 of 1,156 three-pointers in his career, 39.5 percent. Both new contracts are veteran minimums carrying a cap charge of $2,449,421 apiece. The two men will be paid $6,502,156 between them; the two charges total $4,898,842, against $5,246,410 of room under a second-apron hard cap of $221,686,000. Without the league's reimbursement of one-year minimum deals, the pair would not have fit. Once Spotrac posts both, Golden State projects to have $347,568 left. That margin is the reason a live August 6 call on this site's ledger said the club would stop at fourteen, and it is on course to be wrong. One take filed, on Niang's games played.