The Phoenix Suns are one of the two teams that compete for the services of Jonathan Kuminga in a drawing and trade, but they don’t have a first round pick to offer the Warriors what Golden State is looking for. In A new report On Wednesday, ESPN said that Phoenix “made the most lucrative push via Draw-and-Trade” above Sacramento.
ESPN reported that Kuminga refused an offer of two years $ 45 million from Golden State, partly because he prefers the long -term offers of Phoenix and Sacramento. He wants “a new start, larger guaranteed role, a promised starting position and a larger level of respect and career control.”
The Suns reportedly offered almost $ 70 million more guaranteed money than the Warriors. Phoenix wants Kuminga, and he seems to want Phoenix. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that he is a limited free agent, so he cannot choose his destination. He could follow the qualification of $ 7.9 million, which would make him an unlimited free agent next summer. However, that would be risky, especially after Golden State offered him a salary of $ 21.7 million next season. There is no guarantee that money will be on the table next summer.
Where does that leave the situation between Kuminga, the Warriors and the Suns?
Suns have made the most aggressive push for RFA Jonathan Kuminga
ESPN wrote that the Warriors ‘in recent days’ started signaling a plan to cut off the conversations of signs and the hand of the past days. Signs already point to Kuminga who was still in San Francisco at the start of the following season, and now that is even more likely. Will he be happy with that? No, but again, he has no control.
Having Kuminga in Phoenix would give him the freedom he wants to bloom in the player he thinks he can be. He never had that opportunity in his first four seasons in Golden State, and that will not change. Kuminga knows that, that’s why he wants to leave the Warriors.
The stalemate between Golden State and Kuminga does not seem to end up quickly, unless the attacker accepts that he must stay in the bay at least the first half of the following season before he is eligible to be traded. Or, if he accepts the qualifying offer, it will be a UFA next summer. Perhaps the suns will still be in the mix for him if that happens.
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