Buried under the news of Kevin Durant's decision to sign with the Golden State Warriors was a bit of relatively unsurprising news to Vanderbilt Commodores fans: Festus Ezeli and Damian Jones will not be teammates in the NBA.
In NBA parlance, this means that the Warriors renounced their "right of first refusal." Under the NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement, a first-round draft pick whose team picked up its option for the fourth year becomes a restricted free agent if his team makes a qualifying offer at the Rookie-scale amount.