SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors didn’t have a media day on Monday.

No, they held a roster reveal party instead.

Did you know Pat Spencer was on the Dubs’ roster?

I didn’t, because he wasn’t when he came up to the dais of the press conference room inside Chase Center. He had signed roughly 10 minutes beforehand, but the Warriors had yet to send out the press release. It didn’t come for another hour.

What a fun surprise!

Spencer was one of 10 — yes, 10 — players the Warriors announced they signed on Monday. It’s easy to see how his paperwork was lost in the shuffle.

No, this is not normal. It’s not even remotely close to normal.

But heaven forbid anyone pretend that it wasn’t.

Draymond Green started his presser wearing funny glasses that said “BOOM” on them. Jimmy Butler made sure to get in a few unabashed plugs for his coffee company. Steph Curry maintained his politician’s demeanor until the very end of his media availability.

The message: Nothing to see here, everything is fine.

But it’s not. It might be in a few days, but as of Monday — the official start of the Warriors’ season — things are wildly off.

Those 10 players the Warriors signed on Monday were the 10 players that the Warriors could sign. They’re league-minimum-contract guys. Players committed to the Warriors but poised to make more than that, like De’Anthony Melton and Al Horford, weren’t in attendance. (Though a Melton presser was on the books for a little bit. Whoops!)

And it all stems from Jonathan Kuminga’s contract negotiations, which have now dragged into the season.

The fifth-year forward is still, technically, a restricted free agent. But the rest of the NBA is closed for business on that front, leaving the Warriors and Kuminga to figure it out on their own.

However, because the Warriors and Kuminga cannot strike a deal, Golden State remains in Stage 1 of the offseason, even as the season has effectively begun.

Maybe they’ll sort it out by Wednesday night’s qualifying offer deadline. Maybe not.

But the Dubs cannot sign Horford and Melton (and, who knows, maybe there’s another couple of surprises in the offering) until Kuminga’s new deal or $8 million qualifying offer is officially on the books for the season.

And so we wait.

And so the Warriors remain incomplete. That’s not a statement on Kuminga’s importance to the Warriors, but rather a factual statement of roster-building.

But what a roster this will be, right?

“Hypothetically speaking, I like it. I love it,” Butler said.

“Theoretically, having Al Horford can help,” Green said.

“I think everything we do around here is unique … So [this] kind of adds to that journey,” Curry said.

Steve Kerr and general manager Mike Dunleavy said nothing on the hypothetical, theoretical, unique matter because neither spoke at media day. Again, totally normal. We’re having a great time over here.

The Warriors will practice all week before their first of five preseason games on Oct. 5 against the Lakers. Perhaps you can go down to Chase Center and get in a run — the Dubs are looking for bodies until this Kuminga thing is resolved.

“We’ll be tired as hell going through practice,” Green said. “That will be a distraction and that will suck because usually as a vet, you can go slide to the back and let (the young guys) get a couple more reps. You don’t get that privilege. That will suck.”

That’s exactly what a team full of veteran players who ran out of gas last year needs: a tough, shorthanded training camp that will leave them “tired as hell” before the 82-game regular season starts Oct. 21.

But again, there are no issues here. This is all part of the plan, right?

Or perhaps Draymond was trying to tell us something with the glasses.

Fun? No. Those glasses were an apt description of the Warriors’ current state.

Everything has gone BOOM.

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