{"id":109321,"date":"2025-08-01T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109321\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:18:08","slug":"nba-free-agency-jonathan-kuminga-wants-control-warriors-wont-give-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109321\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA free agency: Jonathan Kuminga wants control, Warriors won\u2019t give it"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a month since Golden State Warriors<\/a> forward Jonathan Kuminga reached free agency for the first time in his career. And for the bulk of that month, we simply haven\u2019t had much information about what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s been a classic holding pattern: the Warriors want one thing, Kuminga wants another, and they\u2019ve been searching for alternate solutions, primarily sign-and-trades. <\/p>\n

But lately we\u2019ve started to learn more about the specifics of the staring contest. And while money and role have always been two big factors, we\u2019re now learning about a third element: control. According to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania and Anthony Slater<\/a> (congrats to Slater for joining ESPN), Kuminga recently turned down a two-year, $45 million offer from the Warriors. That in and of itself isn\u2019t surprising, but the reason why is: the Warriors offer included a team option for the second year and a lack of no-trade clause. Golden State was apparently unwilling to budge from that offer, while Kuminga was justifiably unwilling to take it.<\/p>\n

According to Charania and Slater, Kuminga\u2019s team presented the Warriors with a three-year, $82 million offer that would help the team stay under the second apron, thus ensuring that they maintain the ability to use the taxpayer mid-level exception. For now, it seems that price is too high for the Dubs … at least without some options in there.<\/p>\n

We may find out if that sort of deal is actually too rich for the Warriors. The Phoenix Suns<\/a> have apparently made a four-year, $90 million offer to Kuminga, though it would require a sign-and-trade<\/a>, and thus Golden State\u2019s cooperation. If someone offers Kuminga a contract like that straight up \u2014 which would be very difficult for teams given the cap ramifications \u2014 the Warriors would have the right to match it, as Kuminga is a restricted free agent. <\/p>\n

Kuminga is openly willing to bet on himself<\/a>, and it seems fair to guess that if the Warriors don\u2019t up their offer, he\u2019ll end up doing exactly that. It still seems like the most likely outcome is that Kuminga returns to the Warriors, but it\u2019s looking more and more likely that it will be on terms that he\u2019s not stoked about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a month since Golden State Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga reached free agency for the first time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[22608,1805,3723,204,10199,2863,5037,3351,50479,44561,1260,1539,62,290,469,67,132,68,34010,7201,69688,69689,2614],"class_list":{"0":"post-109321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-agency","9":"tag-control","10":"tag-free","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-give","13":"tag-golden","14":"tag-it","15":"tag-jonathan","16":"tag-kuminga","17":"tag-mind","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-of","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-state","22":"tag-t","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-wants","27":"tag-warriors","28":"tag-warriors-news","29":"tag-warriors-roster","30":"tag-won"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951586131962026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}