According to reports, the kings have returned to the game for the potential trade of Jonathan Kuminga
Sacramento and Golden State spoke of a signal and trade by Jonathan Kuminga this summer. According to reports, the kings offered Malik Monk (or perhaps Dario Saric or another player) and a choice of the first round protected by the lottery. The Warriors hit him, not having much love for Monk and asking that the choice was not protected. The talks in the end died.
Less than a week earlier Kuminga or accepts one of the offers The warriors have (or put) on the table, or accepts the qualification offer, the kings went back to the conversation, considering a sign and a trade, Report Sam Amick to Athletic.
Yet, according to the sources of the team, there is still another scenario at stake here: a cartel agreement with the Kings sacrament. While the two teams went more than a month without discussing the matter during the next part of the summer, the sources of the teams said that the interviews between the two parts were renewed at the beginning of this week. And although no significant progress has been made in the interviews, it is quite remarkable that the re-which offered the veteran guard Malik Monk and a choice of the first round to protect the lottery for the possibility of giving Kuminga a three-year agreement and $ 63 million in no perspective to the prospect of bringing it to Sacramento this season.
As Amick observes, the Warriors are not on top of Monk, who is still three years and $ 60.6 million remaining on his contract (including this season), and would like to turn it into another agreement, but other teams are hesitant for the same reason why they are warriors. In the end, this could depend on the fact that the kings are willing to make this choice not protected in the first round.
The Warriors made some contract offers in Kuminga, but two are really at stake: a three -year contract for a value of $ 75.2 million, with a team option for the third year; Or an offer of two years of 45 million dollars, but with a team option in the second year and the Warriors ask that Kuminga gives up the clause without trade that would be provided with this offer. Kuminga and his team does not like any of those because they essentially make him a commercial chip in which he would have no control on where he lands. That’s why Kuminga threatened to simply take the qualification offer of 8 million dollars -A one year contract with a clause without integrated trade-e would be a free agent next summer.
Whatever happens, it seems that Kuminga will be exchanged by the golden state in one way or another (which makes sense, the Warriors want to win now and there is no clean role for him in a team with Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler.
The reorganizing kings would give Kuminga what he wants: an opportunity to have the ball in his hand and be one of the first two players in a list (this is still a team with Domantas Sabonis and Zach Lavine on it, but Sacramento wants to go to them and Kuminga would have had the opportunity to show that it was the future).
Whatever happens, the deadline for Kuminga to collect the qualifying offer will go down by 1 October.