According to reports, the warriors offer Jonathan Kuminga to three years, $ 75.2 million, but the stalemate remains

Jonathan Kuminga wants to be a legitimate chance of shining somewhere. At this moment it is a power forward in a team that already has Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler, a team coached by Steve Kerr, who has never completely trusted him. The Golden State Warriors want a Kuminga contract which is mainly a commercial chip, with a team option in the last season. Kuminga does not want to have its destiny in the hands of a fickle commercial market.

This is the reason why a stalemate remains with a new Kuminga contract despite the Warriors have increased their offer at three years, $ 75.2 million, with a team option in the last year, Reports Shams Charania and Anthony Slater A ESPN. That team option makes this a contract much more negotiable. Although the new offer would guarantee $ 48.3 million for Kuminga in the next two years – literally doubled how much money he has done in the NBA in his first four years – what Kuminga wants more is an opportunity. Something that he heard he never had a good chance at Under Kerr. That’s why one of Kuminga’s counter -ffere was the same contract, but with a player option in the last year.

All this was re -based and led to this exchange between the owner of Kuminga and Warriors Joe Lacob, Espn reports.

But there was an underlying question from the Lacob side that seemed more pressing. “Do you want to be here?” …

So Kuminga reported the question about Lacob and Warriors. “Do you want me here too?”

What the Kuminga camp wanted was a sign this summer, but the offers that arrived were not enough for Golden State. For example, according to reports, Sacramento offered Dario Saric, Devin Carter and a choice of the first round protected by the lottery (some voices suggest that Malik Monk was the player who went with the choice). Phoenix also made an offer that did not include a first round. What Kuminga liked both of these situations was less on the money- that was close to the year to what the Warriors had just offered- and more than a three or four years contract with a player option, and both teams would have made their four initials.

Kuminga’s financial leverage in negotiations with warriors is that it could follow the path Cam Thomas led to BrooklynSigns the qualification offer of one year to $ 7.8 million, which gives him a commercial clause for this season (which could give up the right affair) and would make it a free agent without restrictions next summer when half a dozen teams or more will have space to sign free agents. According to reports, the Kuminga agent has created a “rigged” qualifying offer proposal, in which Kuminga obtains more than $ 8 million but with a very negotiable year contract. Warriors do not like that because of the risk that could go to the end of the season at all if there was no exchange.

Kuminga, 22 years old, marked on average 15.3 points and 4.6 rebounds in 47 games last season (he wasted time with an ankle injury).

The warriors remain in a detention scheme While the Kuminga situation takes place. Golden State has agreements to sign the Horford to the medium -level exception of taxpayers, then sign a combination of De’anthony Melton, Gary Payton II and Seth Curry at the minimum veteran. To do this, the Warriors (with hardships hard to the second apron) cannot offer Kuminga more than $ 22.5 million for the first year of his contract. At that price, he will not accept the team option in the last season.

Then the warriors are stuck, trying to elaborate something with Kuminga before the expiry of 1 October when he would only take the qualifying offer.