The agent of Jonathan Kuminga says that the qualified offer at stake, any Golden State trade probably
Three things remain true on Jonathan Kuminga and his future: 1) wants a more important role with a team, to be a flagship focal point, something that is not happening in Golden State at any time soon; 2) Kuminga remains at a stalemate with the Golden Warriors on his next contract (a problem that will be terminated by 1 October, in one way or another); 3) A divorce between the sides seems inevitable.
All this is the reason why Kuminga’s agent, Aaron Turner, has done the media rounds recently. He argued that if the Warriors did not offer the free limited agent – in particular giving Kuminga a player option rather than a team option in the last year of their offers – he will take the qualifying offer, he will play for a year, so he becomes a free agent. Here’s what Turner said on Espn Podcast “The Hoop Collective”.
“He wants to choose where he wants to go. So the qo is true.”
Golden State made three offers in Kuminga (we know). The most recent and larger contract is a three -year agreement for a value of $ 75.2 million, with a team option for the third year. The other primary was an offer of two years of 45 million dollars, but with a team option in the second year and the Warriors ask that Kuminga renounces the no-trade clause that would arrive with this offer. The third was a three -year agreement of $ 54 million which was well below the fair market value for the striker who entered his fifth season.
The first two of these are established to make Kuminga a commercial chip, but one in which it does not have real control. Kuminga’s financial leverage is that it will take the qualification offer of the Warriors: she gets a clause without trade, it will probably play the season with the Warriors, then it will become a free agent next summer. This involves a risk and about $ 16 million left on the table this season, but Turner stressed that it is at stake.
“If JK wants to take [the qualifying offer]He has the rise, right? We talked about it. You are not exchanging. You will have a free agency without restrictions. People say: ‘Well, Aaron, there will be no 10 or 12 teams [with cap space]. “Well, there will be six teams with space for the limit for the best wing with a sub-35 on the market. So there is a lot of advantage.”
In one way or another, it seems that the Warriors and Kuminga are aimed at a division – in a team that aims to win now with Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green as Natural Fours, where Kuminga adapts? The coach of the warriors Steve Kerr has never trusted Kuminga (with the reason sometimes), and it seems that the sides are blocked. The warriors spoke of trade with Sacramento and Phoenix, but no agreement was reached.
The most probable result is a compromise contract between Warriors and Kuminga that makes him some money, a little control, but creates an exchange, something that Turner spoke about in a Apparition of 95.7 the game in San Francisco.
“Another point is: is it probably … there is a good chance that it is exchanged. Okay? There is a good chance that it is exchanged, and this is in the middle of the year. And it must go to a team that does not necessarily know which team will be, or what goes there. The player’s option is the signal for him who, make this work.” And you know, for us, we see it as we see its market in a certain level, you know, $ 24 million. [Warriors] Can you stay under the second apron? No problem. We can help with that. “
It is a sticky mess of a situation, but with an absolute deadline: Kuminga must take the qualification offer by 1 October. Or a new agreement has been developed since then, or Kuminga will take the offer and take place this season with the Warriors, the eyes of next summer. It is not a good situation for Kuminga or for warriors, which is why a sort of contract for two or three years is probably developed in the next 10 days.
However, it shakes, by 1 October Kuminga will have a new contract and will be on the road to another team. Wherever this can be.