Brandin Podziemski woke up with a contract that would make most of the people who have ever sat courtside at Chase Center check their own balance. His agent told ESPN's Shams Charania the Warriors have agreed to a five-year, $110 million extension.

Divide it out. $22 million a year, every year, through the end of the deal. That is the number to repeat at lunch, and it arrives as a vote of confidence from the franchise.

A guard on that kind of contract is a statement about what Golden State thinks he becomes, not about what he was last spring. Five years is a long time to be wrong in a league where every extension is also a line on a luxury-tax calculation. The Warriors have decided the bet is cheaper now than it will be after he gets better, which is how every team talks itself into an extension, and sometimes how it is right.

For the fan watching from Hong Kong, the useful detail is on the other side of the ledger. Podziemski now has the security that lets a young player stop auditioning. The Warriors have the cost certainty that lets them plan around him. Both sides signed up for the same assumption: the player on the court in year five is better than the one who signed in year one.

The extension is also the first big Warriors money story of the year, and the season has not started. By the time it does, every missed three Podziemski takes will be quoted in dollars.