The Golden State Warriors are fresh off a championship and will be looking to make another run at the title in 2023. However, they've already lost a few important pieces in free agency, most notably Gary Payton II and Otto Porter Jr.

While it's not a concern this summer, both Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole will be due for contract extensions in a year's time and by the sounds of it, Dubs owner Joe Lacob isn't totally convinced they will be able to retain them.

“We have time to do those things,” Warriors owner Joe Lacob said in an interview with Tim Kawakami of The Athletic. “There’s no rush on all that. I’m sure there will be some discussions this summer. But we haven’t talked to them.”

“They are two great players in their 20s,” Lacob said. “We’d love to retain them. But this becomes the problem going forward when you have a team like ours where you’ve got three guys that have been with us for a long time, make a lot of money, huge salaries — Steph, Klay and Draymond. You’ve got these two guys who will be getting into – well, [Wiggins] already is in big salary mode and wants to stay there. And [Poole] is going to be clearly making a lot more money.

Wiggins played a crucial part for the Warriors in the playoffs and was arguably their best all-around player in the Finals. He's a UFA in the summer of 2023. As for Poole, he enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2021-22 in the Golden State backcourt and is surely set for a big payday if he continues to play well next season. Poole is an RFA in 23′.

The problem with having such an expensive roster with the likes of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson is that it becomes difficult to re-sign players like Wiggins and Poole. The luxury tax doesn't help, either.

Lacob didn't mince his words and made sure to speak the cold hard truth, even though Warriors fans probably don't want to hear this right now:

“It's going to be difficult,” Lacob said. “I’m not going to sit here and lie to the fan base. It’s going to be really difficult to figure out what we’ll do next summer. This year, we’re good. I would call this as running it back. Some people may think because Payton and a couple people are not back — there’s always going to be some change. Yesterday is yesterday, the future is the future. We think we’re going to have a great team this year.

We'll see if the Warriors can manage to front up with the desired money for Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole, two important players for their future as a franchise.