According to reports, Warriors in plans to exchange Jonathan Kuminga this summer, it will be with the team

While the offseason marked, the possibilities of a Jonathan Kuminga Sign-and-Trade-by the new beginning that he was looking for-sought. There were talks with the Suns (Royce O’Neale, Nick Richards and three choices of the second round are the reported offer) that have not gone anywhere. There were talks with the kings, in which the offer according to what was reported Malik Monk, another player (perhaps Dario Saric) and a choice of the first round protected by the lottery, but the Warriors rejected it, saying that they want the choice that was not protected. The talks died there.

Now, the Warriors have finished with commercial interviews and will bring Kuminga in the field, in one way or another, reports the veteran journalist of the Bay Area Tim Kawakami of the San Francisco standard.

The word I received when I checked -in with a source of Warriors on Sunday: Kuminga will not be exchanged this summer. He will return to the Warriors roster to start the season. And the Warriors’ offer will arrive or sign or will accept the one -year qualification offer of 7.9 million dollars …

But several sources indicated that warriors were not enthusiastic about the general idea of a sign of Kuminga from the beginning. The wide context is that Joe Lacob remains a Kuminga fan and is determined to keep the 22 -year -old on the roster or obtain a real value in return. And he is willing to wait.

As Kawakami admits, this sounds a lot like a negotiating tactic: this is what loses to put pressure on the kings to remove the protections from their choice and make an agreement. If we can see it all, even the kings can afford to be patient and wait for this. Golden State is also patient, despite having up to six points of roster to be filled (currently it has only nine players under contract) and with outstanding agreements suspended with the Horford and De’anthony Melton who only wait for the Kuminga situation to resolve.

According to reports, the permanent offer of the Warriors in Kuminga is two years, $ 45 million with a team option in the second year, but they want Kuminga to give up the non -trap clause that would automatically arrive with this contract. Kuminga has no intention of doing it, why should he give up the lever he has in this situation? For his part, Kuminga posted that he would sign the offer of qualifying and betting on himself (a move that neither of them prefers but remains an option).

Kawakami has made a reasonable compromise suggestion: Golden State partially guarantees the second year of that contract, let’s say for $ 15 million (give or take). This upsets the guaranteed money of Kuminga, so it gets a little more security, that the guarantee is not enough to frighten a team that markets for Kuminga who wants to keep it, but also eliminates the non -trade clause (which is linked to the rights of birds, which would be lost if Kuminga was exchanged so it has not given up on anything).

However, there is little pressure on both sides to compromise at this moment, the date of fall for Kuminga to accept the qualifying offer is 1 October, close to the training camps. Until then, wait a lot more posture.