{"id":94680,"date":"2025-07-26T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94680\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:02:13","slug":"nba-trade-idea-sends-warriors-jonathan-kuminga-to-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94680\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Trade Idea Sends Warriors&#8217; Jonathan Kuminga to Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NBA trade idea sending Golden State Warriors forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuminjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> to the Phoenix Suns has been created.<\/p>\n<p>NBA writer <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/nba-mock-trade-idea-sends-jonathan-kuminga-to-suns-as-warriors-acquire-bold-contending-pieces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ishaan Bhattacharya of Athlon Sports<\/a> created the following trade idea between the Warriors and Suns:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phoenix Suns\u00a0Receive:\u00a0Jonathan Kuminga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Golden State Warriors Receive:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/onealro01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royce O\u2019Neale<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/richani01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Richards<\/a>, 2026 Second-Round Pick (OKC\/DAL\/PHI), 2029 Second-Round Pick (PHX)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kuminga is a restricted free agent and doesn\u2019t want to return to the Warriors. The Suns are interested in Kuminga, but they have yet to sign the swingman to an offer sheet. <\/p>\n<p>As a restricted free agent, Kuminga has three options: re-sign with the Warriors on a new deal (which he doesn\u2019t want to do), play next season with Golden State on a qualifying offer worth $7.9 million and enter unrestricted free agency next offseason (another option he doesn\u2019t want to do) or sign an offer sheet with a rival team (this is what he wants).<\/p>\n<p>If Kuminga signs an offer sheet with a team, the Warriors can either match the offer sheet or let the 22-year-old leave and execute a sign-and-trade deal.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga played in 47 games for the Warriors last season. He averaged 15.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists while shooting 45.4% from the field, 30.5% from beyond the arc and 66.8% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State head coach Steve Kerr benched Kuminga for the final game of the regular season against the Los Angeles Clippers and the play-in game versus the Memphis Grizzlies. Kuminga only played in Games 2 and 3 of the Houston Rockets postseason series because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy Butler<\/a> was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, Kuminga played in every game of the Minnesota Timberwolves playoff series only because <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_bbr\">Stephen Curry<\/a> got injured in Game 1 and missed the rest of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga has career averages of 12.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists. It will be fascinating to see where he\u2019s playing next season, but in a perfect world for Kuminga, he will not be back with the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dallashoopsjournal.com\/p\/category\/nba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest NBA News &amp; Rumors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NBA trade idea sending Golden State Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga to the Phoenix Suns has been created.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,3140,11434,1260,7185,62459,1589,1721,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-94680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-news","15":"tag-nba-rumors","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-suns","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114920852335605675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94680","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=94680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}