Festus Ezeli: Don’t laugh when the Warriors re-sign Ezeli, participant in just 124 regular-season games over three injury-riddled seasons, to something like a four-year, $40 million extension this fall. Ezeli is an explosive leaper who protects the rim on defense, and his stone hands have softened just enough that he can at least catch the ball and dunk it when he’s wide open — and cram down offensive rebounds.
Ezeli doesn’t yet have the feel to be an ideal big-man cog in Steve Kerr’s system — he had just nine assists last season — but if you surround him with shooting, he can work as a screen-setter and finisher. He’s the only realistic heir to Bogut on the Dubs roster, and even if the Warriors someday deem him unfit for that job, he’d be movable at that number.
Ezeli doesn’t yet have the feel to be an ideal big-man cog in Steve Kerr’s system — he had just nine assists last season — but if you surround him with shooting, he can work as a screen-setter and finisher. He’s the only realistic heir to Bogut on the Dubs roster, and even if the Warriors someday deem him unfit for that job, he’d be movable at that number.
