But it takes two to tango.

Surely Greg Lawrence, Thompson’s agent, will be keen for the wing to land a deal similar to what Jrue Holiday just signed with the Celtics — four years, $135 million.

But Holiday didn’t have two catastrophic leg injuries. Holiday is still one of the finest point guards in the league, a two-way menace for a top team. Thompson had a nice second half of the season, but, well, Tuesday.

Thompson has already reportedly turned down a two-year, $48 million deal from the Warriors.

I think Thompson will test the free-agent market, but returns to that offer, eventually signing a three-year deal (third year as a player option) worth $75 million — effectively the same contract as Green.

2: Salary shedding

There are two obvious places to do this. The first is with Chris Paul. Even in Steve Kerr’s effusive praise following Paul’s useless play-in tournament performance, the Warriors coach admitted that Paul doesn’t fit with the Dubs. The team is already small; Paul makes them smaller, and Kerr can’t reasonably play Paul and Curry together because that’s two undersized, negative defenders on the perimeter.

The reason the Warriors traded for Paul last summer was two-fold: they wanted to rid themselves of Jordan Poole, and they wanted to have a player who still had use but had a contract that was easily eliminated from the books.

Paul, whose salary for 2024-25 is not guaranteed, is easily eliminated.

“I’m open to things,” Paul said Wednesday.

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