The Golden State Warriors are ‘locked in’ on signing longtime Boston Celtics center Al Horford after Boston already lost Kevon Looney to the New Orleans Pelicans, per Brett Siegel.
SOURCES: The Warriors are locked in on getting to an agreement with Al Horford after losing Kevon Looney. https://t.co/d1o47lft3n
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Looney, who signed with the Pelicans on a two-year deal, played 76 games during the 2024-25 season, serving predominantly as a backup to Trayce Jackson-Davis. He averaged less than 5.0 points per game in each of the last two seasons, and has not averaged more than 10 in his career.
Jackson-Davis has one year and a club option on his four-year, $7.6 million contract, and seeing as he’s just 25 years old, Horford would likely serve as his backup on the Warriors.
Horford has been with the Celtics since the 2021-22 season, and spent three seasons with the Celtics between 2016 and 2019. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Atlanta Hawks. Between his spells with the Celtics, he spent a year each with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Horford made his first All-Star game in 2009-10, and made his second in the following year. He made three All-Star games in four seasons between 2014-15 and 2017-18. He made the All-NBA Third Team in 2010-11 and the NBA All-Defensive Second team in 2017-18. He won his first NBA Championship in 2024.
The big man averaged 9.0 points per game in 2024-2025, and started in more than two thirds of the games he featured in for the Celtics.
The Celtics are primed to lose all three of their big men from the 2024-25 season, as they traded Kristaps Porzingis to the Hawks for Georges Niang and a second-round pick, and Luke Kornet signed a four-year $41 million contract with the San Antonio Spurs within the first couple of hours of free agency.
With Horford’s exit looming, the Celtics signed center Luke Garza to a two-year, $5.5 million contract.
