Today, Gui Santos signed a three-year, $15 million contract with the Golden State Warriors.
This time two years ago, he was playing in the G League for the Santa Cruz Warriors. He was called up in November of 2023, but was still routinely sent back to Santa Cruz. In early 2025, he made his first career start, and now, he routinely starts. Though he is now a forward, the Brazilian big man used to be a point guard, and that adjustment was one of the most important things in his journey to becoming a rotational
NBA player.
“The key word for that is patience,” Santos said in a press conference yesterday. “Because when I got here, I was a point guard playing back in Brazil… and I spent the whole year in the G-league just learning how to fit in the system here.”
Santos, drafted by the Warriors with the 55th pick in 2022, has done a lot of learning and growing since joining the league. He is currently averaging 6.6 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game. At only 23 years old, and with a bright future ahead of him, things can only go up from here.
