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SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors have waived guard Seth Curry with the expectation that he will return to the team at some point in the first couple of months.

The move was necessary because of the Warriors’ lack of financial flexibility in the new salary cap environment. They are hard-capped at the second apron and just below it, so they can’t afford to have an extra veteran minimum contract on their books until early November. Golden State’s 15th and final roster spot will remain vacant until the guard’s anticipated return.

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Seth, Stephen Curry’s younger brother, has spent the past few weeks at the team’s facility and on its lone October road trip working out, but he has been deactivated for preseason games.

Seth Curry started his 11-year career with the franchise’s G League program in Santa Cruz but then purposefully ventured elsewhere — to 10 NBA teams — preferring to map his own professional path out of his brother’s shadow.

It has come with plenty of shooting success. The younger Curry brother has made 945 career 3s at a 43.3% clip, the seventh-highest percentage in league history.

This summer, Seth decided the timing was right to join Steph, who has long hoped to play with his brother on an NBA stage. It will be delayed, but a plan remains in place even after this procedural waiving.

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This had always been the plan.

From the day the Warriors signed Seth Curry to play alongside his older brother Stephen Curry for the first time professionally, it was made clear that the Warriors were eventually going to cut and waive Curry, only to re-sign him a month or two later. That cut came on Saturday.

Team finances and the tax aprons drove this. The Warriors are hard-capped at the second apron (because they used the taxpayer mid-level exception to sign Al Horford). After agreeing to a new contract with Jonathan Kuminga, then soon after deals for Horford and Deâ€Anthony Melton, the Warriors were bumping up against that cap. One of Seth Curry or Gui Santos had to be waived to get under that hard cap to start the season, and Curry was always the guy going to get the time off (this was clearly communicated with everyone, including Stephen).

The Warriors can re-sign Seth Curry on Nov. 15, when they will have the space to sign a pro-rated minimum contract for the rest of the season. However, the Warriors may wait longer than that, maybe into December, just to give themselves more cushion against the tax apron line.

Seth, 35, shot 45.6% on 3-pointers last season on his way to averaging 6.5 points a game in Charlotte. His shooting and style of play mesh well with the Warriors once they re-sign him, in a month or two.

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The Knicks will waive guard Garrison Mathews ahead of Saturday’s 5 p.m. deadline, league sources told SNY’s NBA Insider Ian Begley.

New York has been impressed by Mathews’ play during the preseason and training camp, but with the club financially restricted by the second apron, there was no space for the 29-year-old veteran.

Mathews, off that strong preseason, is expected to draw interest from teams around the league looking to add shooting ahead of the regular season.

Entering the preseason, the Knicks had veterans Landry Shamet and Malcolm Brogdon battling with Matthews for the final available roster spot. With Brogdon announcing his retirement earlier this week and Matthews’ release, the final spot will go to Shamet.

Shamet joined the Knicks last year, appearing in 50 games off the bench, averaging 5.7 points on 46.1 percent shooting (39.7 percent from three) in 15.2 minutes.

Mathews did not play in New York’s preseason finale on Friday. Shamet logged 20 minutes off the bench, scoring 11 points on 3-for-5 shooting (all from three) and was a plus-3 in the 113-108 win over Charlotte.

Mathews, undrafted out of Lipscomb in 2019, broke into the league with Washington, where he spent two years before bouncing to Houston for parts of two seasons and spending the last two years in Atlanta. In 314 career games (64 starts), the six-foot-six guard has averaged 6.5 points on 40 percent shooting (38.2 percent from three) in 17.5 minutes.

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Oct 16, 2025, 10:27 AM ET

The Charlotte Hornets have waived veteran guard Spencer Dinwiddie, the team announced Thursday.

Dinwiddie signed a one-year, $3.6 million deal with the Hornets in early July amid free agency, but Charlotte had to release a guaranteed salary ahead of next week’s regular-season opener and chose his in an effort to get to the maximum of 15 standard contracts on the current roster.

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Dinwiddie, who appeared in just two preseason games with Charlotte, averaged 14.3 points and 6.2 assists in 30 games as a starter for the Dallas Mavericks last season. He averaged 11 points, 4.4 assists and 2.6 rebounds in 27 minutes overall in 79 appearances for the Mavericks in 2024-25.

Now entering his 12th NBA season, Dinwiddie played a key role as the sixth man on the Mavs’ 2022 Western Conference finals team after arriving as part of the Kristaps Porzingis deal at the trade deadline and was sent to the Brooklyn Nets a year later as part of the Kyrie Irving trade.

Dinwiddie has also played for the Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers during his career, averaging 13.0 points and 5.1 assists in 27.7 minutes in 621 games (345 starts).

ESPN’s Tim MacMahon contributed to this report.

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