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NBA Insider: Warriors Seek Al Horford After Losing Kevon Looney To Pelicans

NBA insider says Warriors chase NBA champion Al Horford as a replacement for Kevon Looney, who signed with the Pelicans.

Chaitanya Dadhwal
Jul 1, 2025
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The NBA free agency officially marks the beginning of the offseason preparations for the 2025-26 season. And the Warriors began their offseason by losing a key piece in their dynasty era, Kevon Looney, to the Pelicans in a two-year, $16 million deal. 

Following his move away from the team, there is a major hole in their roster as they severely lack size now. Quinten Post, their only other conventional big, is a 7-foot-tall rookie who played 54 games for the Warriors last season. He averaged 7.1 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in those games while shooting 39.3% from beyond the arc. 

Considering that Post is a stretch-big and not a conventional shot-blocking center, the Warriors need a defensive-minded center like Looney was. According to NBA insider Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints, the Warriors are “locked in” on signing Al Horford in the wake of losing Looney to the Pelicans.

“SOURCES: The Warriors are locked in on getting to an agreement with Al Horford after losing Kevon Looney.”

The former NBA champion Al Horford is an 18-year veteran in the NBA. He has played for multiple teams like the Hawks, Celtics, and Thunder. He won his only ring with the Celtics in the 2023-24 season. 

Horford brings a combination of skills to the table that the Warriors could use in the coming season. While he is originally a defensive shot-blocking big who averages 1.1 blocks per game for his career, he can also shoot efficiently, including from range. He is a career 50.9% shooter from the field, while shooting 37.7% from range. The five-time NBA All-Star averaged 12.9 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 3.2 assists in 1,138 regular-season games.

The veteran center would be the perfect addition for the Warriors as he brings not just the additional defensive skills that the Warriors need, but he can also be a guide for a young center like Post in the nascent stages of his career. 

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ByChaitanya Dadhwal
Chaitanya Dadhwal is an NBA Analyst and Columnist at Fadeaway World from New Delhi, India. He fell in love with basketball in 2018 after seeing James Harden in his prime. He joined the sports journalism world in 2021, one year before finishing his law school in 2022. He attended Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, India, where his favorite subject was also Sports Law.He transitioned from law to journalism after realizing his true passion for sports and basketball in particular. Even though his journalism is driven by his desire to understand both sides of an argument and give a neutral perspective, he openly admits he is biased towards the Houston Rockets and Arsenal. But that intersection of in-depth analysis and passion helps him simplify the fine print and complex language for his readers.His goal in life is to open his own sports management agency one day and represent athletes. He wants to ensure he can help bridge the gap in equal opportunity for athletes across various sports and different genders playing the same sport.
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