Warriors extend the $ 7.9 million qualification offer to Jonathan Kuminga – NBC Sports Bay Area & California
The Warriors made the move scheduled for Saturday when they extended a qualifying offer from $ 7.9 million to Jonathan Kuminga, confirmed Monte Poole of the NBC Sports Bay Area.
Kuminga officially becomes a free NBA agent before the negotiation period on Monday, which starts at 15:00 pt.
The Athletic’s Anthony Slater and Keith Smith of Spotrac were the first to report the news.
The Limited Kuminga free agency is the biggest question that Warriors must answer this offseason.
The 22 -year -old can offer sheets of sheets of other NBA teams on Monday and the Warriors can match the offer, refuse to combine or process a sign with another franchise.
Kuminga and Warriors were unable to agree on an extension of the long-term contract before the NBA 2024-25 season, and played the last guaranteed year of his beginner agreement.
In 47 games, Kuminga scored 15.3 points and 4.6 rebounds on average with 45.4 percent shooting from the field and 30.5 percent shooting from 3 points.
The fourth season of the Kuminga NBA was hindered by an ankle injury suffered at the beginning of January, putting it in Bine for 31 games. When he returned to training, Jimmy Butler had been acquired and Warriors had difficulty adapting to Kuminga in the rotation.
When the Warriors reached the NBA playoffs, Kuminga was out of the rotation and received four DNP in the victory of the first round series on the Houston Rockets.
But Kuminga reached the mix against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round when Steph Curry suffered a knee tendon injury. In the last four games, the striker has marked on average 24.3 points with 55.4 percent shooting, showing the warriors and the rest of the NBA of what he is capable of.
Kuminga believes he can be a “big” NBA player in the right situation, and understands that he could mean leaving the Warriors, who enrolled him at 7 absolute in the draft of the NBA of 2021.
But warriors could still keep a former lottery choice in which they have invested a lot of time and efforts.
A decision on Kuminga will arrive in the next few days and will have a great impact on the future of both sides.
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