Because Jonathan Kuminga cannot realize dreams with Warriors (55) – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

Like any agent that is worth his commission, Aaron Turner is the greatest cheerleader of his client, since he is the first of those who believe that the warriors Jonathan Kuminga’s striker is an initial role away from becoming a perennial all-star NBA.

Maybe it is, but it is not happening in Golden State. Not as long as the central trio – Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler – remains intact. And if there is no room for Kuminga in the initial formation, it cannot be the player who wants to be.

“It is probably true,” Turner said on Friday during an apparition for guests in “Dubs Talk”. “But this does not mean that it cannot work, or for the moment it is not good. Jk is an ambitious 22 year old. I will not take him away from him. I love him. He should be. (He is) young. You want to continue growing and improve.

“The way JK moves is that he wants to continue pushing the envelope, and I am not going to take him away from him. In reality I agree. It can be the player who wants to be here, at this moment, with this composition of the roster? No. But this does not mean that he does not want to win and is not willing to sacrifice for the group.”

This concession is intended to have an impact on any contract offer. How high are the warriors willing to look for someone who has been sung on the bench as sixth or seventh man?

Golden State’s last offer, about $ 75 million in three years, is actually a two -year agreement because the year 3 is a team option. That offer was made with considerable reluctance and increase up to $ 100 million or more does not seem to be on the horizon.

Turner recognizes that the value of the Kuminga contract is lower than most of its other lottery choices in the NBA draft of 2021, above all because it entered the championship with a team with a carriage superstar. A team built not to develop but to chase the championships.

“Those other guys did not really go to teams who were winning,” Turner said. “If the Warriors did not win in ’22, (negotiating a new contract) is probably very fluid and easy. But they did it and that type of complicated things.”

Five of the six players selected before Kuminga in the draft NBA 2021 signed extensions last summer.

N. 1 Pick falls Cunningham (Pistons), N. 3 Pick Evan Mobley (Cavaliers) and N. 4 Pick Scottie Barnes (Raptors) received maximum affairs of 224 million dollars to five years. So also the number 8 chose Franz Wagner (magic), which was selected immediately after Kuminga. Choice n. 2 Jalen Green (Rockets) took a three -year extension for a value of $ 106 million and the number 5 Pick Jalen Sugges has been extended for five years to $ 150.5 million.

Each of those players joined a reconstruction team. Cunningham, Green, Mobley, Barnes, Sugges and Wagner were appetizers since the first day.

So it was also Josh Giddey, selected in sixth place by Oklahoma City. The Thunder studied it for three seasons before touching last summer and exchanging it in Chicago. After a season with the Bulls, Giddey received a four -year extension for a value of $ 100 million.

At four years of career, everyone has been identified as a milestone for his current franchise. The same cannot be said of Kuminga, who has also entered with much less experience.

Blame the circumstances, if you want, as there is no way to project how much the JK could fly high if it had been enrolled by a team without a established nucleus.

Kuminga is deeply aware of the nine -digit contracts between his peers and dreams of having one. It is worth it, according to Turner.

“Jk does a good job in running his race,” he said on Friday. “It is not too taken from what everyone else is doing. It understands that his circumstances are unique and accept.

“But do you think you are at the level of those guys and the money they got? Yes, it does so. And frankly, I do it too.”

Warriors have no desire to offer Kuminga $ 100 million or more. Four seasons in his career in the NBA, they do not perceive it unanimously as a franchising milestone. They hope that it can be the path to acquire a veteran that would be more compatible with their nucleus.

If Kuminga will enter the Warriors next season, it will be a reserve. Someone who can leave the bench and change the direction of a game. With so many veterans planned in the final roster, its youth energy will have a huge value.

One thing is to accept such a modest role, another to embrace him with joy.

“If you look at any championship team, a sacrifice is needed,” Turner said. “He has to come from someone with talent. It’s just a part of it. Jk probably must be that boy. Do not say that the other guys should not do it even in the team, but he will have to sacrifice his personal ambitions and goals, which he has not yet had the opportunity to chase.

“He did not get that part of his career like some of his peers, where he manages to understand exactly who he is. It was a bit suppressed by the first championship that the Warriors won in ’22 and then everything that arrived later.”

Leaving the bench does not speak to the heart of Kuminga. Except for a last minute trade-and these discussions have a way of being revisited-will obtain an opportunity in which it can become an appetizer. And be the player who wants to be.

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