Draymond Green is staying in San Francisco. The Warriors reached a two-year, $27.7 million agreement to keep their four-time champion forward through what looks increasingly like a farewell run alongside Stephen Curry, a player who does not lead the league in a single major statistical category and gets paid like he leads three. That is not an insult. That is the Warriors admitting what everyone already knew: Green's value was never on the stat sheet. It is in the huddle, the technical fouls that somehow still net positive, and a locker room that has won four rings without ever fully explaining how.

The number matters more than the sentiment. Golden State is layering a $27.7 million veteran extension onto a roster already carrying max money for Curry and a luxury-tax bill that reads like a small country's GDP, betting the accounting works out before the basketball stops. Meanwhile in Dallas, Jerry Jones is doing the opposite calculation, dangling this year's top draft pick for win-now "firepower" on a Cowboys team that has not sniffed a Super Bowl since the Clinton administration. Two franchises, two owners, the same question: how much does one more shot at a ring cost when the answer used to be nothing.