{"id":2471,"date":"2024-10-26T08:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2024-10-26T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T08:42:30","slug":"breaking-warriors-star-jonathan-kuminga-attracting-attention-from-big-market-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Warriors Star Jonathan Kuminga Attracting Attention from Big Market: Report.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178792417-e1729877678507.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178792417-e1729877678507.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178792417-e1729877678507.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178792417-e1729877678507.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Jonathan Kuminga, Warriors\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" data-img-load-time=\"717\" data-dom-ready-time=\"836\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Jonathan Kuminga maintains focus amid uncertain future with Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Kuminga\u00a0is now considered a flight risk after the\u00a0Golden State Warriors\u00a0and the fourth-year forward failed to agree to a contract extension before the season started.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bleacher Report\u2019s NBA insider Jake Fischer, Kuminga is generating interest from a big market team in the East that will have a massive cap room next summer and all the playing time the Warriors forward desperately craves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have already been rumblings of\u00a0Brooklyn [Nets]\u00a0potentially willing to throw a big offer sheet at Jonathan Kuminga,\u201d\u00a0Fischer reported on October 25 during his weekly Bleacher Report\u2019s \u201cNBA Insider Notebook\u201d live stream.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s front office insider Bobby Marks\u00a0projects the Nets to have $70 million in cap room, which will be more than enough to slot in Kuminga and another rising star to kickstart their rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga\u2019s name has come up in past trade talks between the Warriors and the Nets, according to Fischer. But he quickly added the Nets are not as desperate compared to the\u00a0New York Knicks\u2018 relentless pursuit of\u00a0Mikal Bridges\u00a0and\u00a0Karl-Anthony Towns, which led to successive massive trades this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the Nets are a team that\u2019s like pounding the table trying to get Jonathan Kuminga, but I\u2019m just piecing together all the dots on the board to see where he could get that money from. And clearly, the Nets have that in their history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fischer pointed to the\u00a0Nets\u2019 offer sheets\u00a0to Tyler Johnson, Allen Crabbe, Donatas Motiejunas and Otto Porter Jr. during the 2016 NBA free agency, three years before they made a splash on\u00a0Kevin Durant\u00a0and\u00a0Kyrie Irving.<\/p>\n<p>A Nets move could also be a homecoming of sorts for the Congo native who played high school basketball in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Warriors\u2019 Wait-And-See Approach<\/h2>\n<p>Even after Kuminga took off in the second half of last season following a sit-down talk with coach Steve Kerr, the Warriors, according to NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s Monte Poole, were still unwilling to make Kuminga their second-highest-paid player after\u00a0Stephen Curry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one else on the current roster has a contract that exceeds $30 million in 2025-26, and Kuminga and his representatives, according to sources, sought a deal well beyond that amount. A deal that would have had considerably more impact on the payroll than those lined up for four-time All-Star Draymond Green and 2022 All-Star Andrew Wiggins,\u201d\u00a0Poole wrote on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are taking a wait-and-see approach when it comes to Kuminga. They wanted to see another leap from the No. 7 pick of the 2021 draft class this season before making a heavy investment.<\/p>\n<p>Restricted free agency, which means the Warriors have the right to match any offer sheet Kuminga receives next summer, afforded them some leverage in Kuminga\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ji8qmjkca\">\u201cNot much has changed in regards to our hopes for his future with this team,\u201d\u00a0Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said of Kuminga, per ESPN\u2019s Kendra Andrews. \u201cSometimes these things get done, sometimes they don\u2019t\u2026 [We] Hope to get something done in the offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Jonathan Kuminga \u2018Not Concerned\u2019 About Lack of Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Kuminga, along with Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey, are the only players in the top seven selections of their draft class who did not get an extension this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit\u2019s Cade Cunningham (No. 1), Cleveland\u2019s Evan Mobley (No. 3) and Toronto\u2019s Scottie Barnes (No. 4) received rookie max extension deals. Houston\u2019s Jalen Green (No. 2) and Orlando\u2019s Jalen Suggs (No. 5) each got a $30 million annual salary in their respective rookie extension contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga had a lackluster start to a critical season \u2014 scoring just 10 points on a 3 of 9 shooting performance in a foul-plagued 20-minute stint \u2014 during the Warriors\u2019 140-104 Warriors\u2019 blowout win over the Portland Trail Blazers on October 23.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained the failed extension talks do not bother him at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really concerned about it,\u201d\u00a0he told The Athletic after the win<em>.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m just concerned about coming out here and performing every other day. I ain\u2019t really thinking about that. The time came and nothing happened. So I\u2019m not very concerned about it much anymore. I can just be me and not think about it. I\u2019ve been through so much. A lot of people don\u2019t know me, don\u2019t know what I\u2019ve been through. There\u2019s not too many things that can break me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyJonathan Kuminga maintains focus amid uncertain future with Golden State Warriors. 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