Report: Warriors willing to match any offer sheet for Barnes

The Golden State Warriors can't start looking ahead to the offseason just yet, but with just one win needed to clinch a second straight NBA title (and a maximum three games remaining in the 2015-16 campaign), they'll face some big free-agency decisions in short order.

First and foremost, the Warriors will have to figure out how, or if, Harrison Barnes fits into their long-term plans. There have been rumors throughout the season of the team's desire to pursue Kevin Durant in free agency, a move that would almost certainly mean renouncing Barnes. The fourth-year swingman will be a restricted free agent at season's end (having turned down a reported four-year, $64-million extension last summer), and figures to have no shortage of suitors in a market that's about to be flooded with cash.

The Warriors, though, effectively control their own destiny in the Barnes sweepstakes, with the right to match any offer sheet he receives. One source within the Warriors organization expects them to do just that, even if those offers come in above $20 million per year, Sean Deveney of the Sporting News reports.

The only way Barnes will end up on a different team next season is if he approaches the front office and requests to be let go, the source told Deveney.

Barnes has been somewhat of a cipher since the Warriors drafted him seventh overall in 2012; frequently solid, almost never spectacular. He's a versatile defender and a strong spot-up shooter, though, and he'll enter free agency on the heels of a season in which he averaged career highs in points (11.7), assists (1.8), 3-pointers (1.4), and minutes (30.9) per game, with a .466/.383/.761 shooting line.