The Golden State Warriors have declined their fourth-year option on Kevon Looney while picking up their third-year option on Damian Jones.

Looney would have been owed $2.2 million next season, making the Warriors pay nearly double that in luxury taxes. 

Looney will become an unrestricted free agent in 2018.

Jones has spent time recently with the Warriors’ G-League team in Santa Cruz.

Draymond Green and Bradley Beal were both ejected from Friday night's game shortly before halftime.

Beal slapped Green in the face from behind, which led Green to grab Beal. The two remained locked as the scuffle spilled into the baseline.

Green had received a technical foul earlier in the game.

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— RealGM (@RealGM) October 28, 2017

Green spoke with ESPN about the incident while the game was still in progress.

"I don't know what I'm supposed to do if someone hits you twice. Man, you're taught as a kid not to allow that. What was I supposed to do?

Green was asked if there's history with Bea.

"There's history with me and the NBA. That's the only reason I can think of why I was ejected."

Stephen Curry has been fined $50,000 for throwing his mouthpiece in the direction of a game official.

The incident, for which Curry was ejected, occurred with 43.6 seconds remaining in the 4th quarter of the Warriors’ 111-101 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday, Oct. 21 at FedEx Forum.

Stephen Curry was ejected late in the Golden State Warriors' 111-101 loss at the Memphis Grizzlies.

“I didn’t throw my mouthpiece at the ref," said Curry. "I got better aim than that. I threw it out of frustration.”

Curry has thrown his mouthpiece several times over the year, including in the 2016 Finals.

Kevin Durant was also thrown out of the game.

An MRI on Draymond Green's left knee came back negative.

Green suffered the injury in the Golden State Warriors' opening night loss to the Houston Rockets. Green was fouled on a running jumper and landed awkwardly. Green immediately began hobbling and rubbing his left knee.

Green retreated to the locker room and didn't return to the game.

Green told ESPN after the game that "I'll be good. I'm fine," as he walked gingerly out of the locker room.

Draymond Green will undergo an MRI on his left knee on Wednesday.

Green suffered the injury during the Golden State Warriors' opening night loss to the Houston Rockets.

The Golden State Warriors have agreed upon a two-way contract with Quinn Cook.

Cook was released last week by the Atlanta Hawks.

While Stephen Curry has won two MVPs, he believes he may be entering his absolute prime.

“I hope it is,” Curry told The Athletic. “You go through this NBA journey and every year you learn something else about yourself, about your team, about being an NBA player. Using all that experience to my advantage, the work you put in off the court in the summertime to get yourself ready. I don't know exactly where the peak is, but I do think I'm the best version of myself to date.”

Curry was asked whether he would like to compete for an MVP again this season.

“That's such a tough question,” Curry said. “Because obviously, everybody wants to be in that conversation, wants to get votes and be recognized for having the best year individually. But when I won my first two, that wasn't what I was playing for. I don't have that perspective — oh, I need to go play for an MVP. Really, when Tuesday happens, my mentality is to help my team win games, be aggressive, play my best basketball and usually that means good things will happen individually and as a team. If I have to trade off a couple MVP votes for a championship, so be it. But hopefully I can be in the conversation for both.”

Klay Thompson said the Golden State Warriors are aspiring to be the 1990s Chicago Bulls of their era.

The Bulls won six titles in eight seasons in the 1990s.

"What's that, six championships in eight years?" Thompson said Saturday, when asked whether the Warriors were the closest thing the league had seen to the Bulls dynasty. "So we're, what, like only a third of the way there? I think it's close. We still have a long way to go, but I do see the fandom, the fanfare like the Bulls had in the '90s.

"Every time the Bulls came to town, that was the ticket of the year. Now it's when the Warriors come to town, that's the must-see game. And we don't take that for granted; that's such a cool position to be in. We rarely play in front of a crowd that's not sold out. That's so special. It's hard to really grasp that as a player. So I think it's close. I still think we're not on their level yet, but that's what we aspire to be of the 2000s. We aspire to be that dynasty that will be in the minds of NBA fans forever."

Steve Kerr, who won three titles as a member of the Bulls, is already trying to temper those type of expectations for his team.

"We can't match what the Bulls did," Kerr said, when asked about the possibility earlier in the week. "They won six championships in eight years. And we have two in three years, which is great, but we'd like to keep going. We'd like to win more, so we have a chance to do something great not only this year but the next few years. But we have to work hard and also get lucky too. You have to stay healthy and things have to go your way, so we'll do our best and enjoy the ride while we're on it."

The Golden State Warriors have submitted a bid to host the 2021 NBA All-Star Game.

The Warriors will open up Chase Center for the 19-20 season.

The only time the city of San Francisco held the contest was in 1967 when the franchise was based there.

Golden State last hosted the event in Oakland in 2000.

The NBA will host the 2018 All-Star Game in Los Angeles and the 2019 edition in Charlotte.