[Trade] Warriors have obvious Jonathan Kuminga trade demand after latest Kings reports

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Here’s my question, why did Perry, BJ and Doug do a conference call with a guy that they don’t want to pay and that his current team doesn’t want any of our available players in trade? Most of the information out there doesn’t add up.
 
iowamcnabb said:
Here’s my question, why did Perry, BJ and Doug do a conference call with a guy that they don’t want to pay and that his current team doesn’t want any of our available players in trade? Most of the information out there doesn’t add up.
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I dunno if this is a moronic answer, but... because it was easy? The tech to make this happen is tremendously low-friction in 2025. It doesn't cost anybody anything to say, "Hey, we're interested in you. Wanna talk?" It's not like they flew him out and had franchise ambassadors wine and dine him. The Kings may be interested at a certain price. Kuminga may be interested in a starting role. An the Warriors may be interested in... well, I honestly have no idea what they expect out of this situation. They have the leverage, yes, but they're also hamstringing themselves in the process. So go wild, I say. If they want to screw themselves over, no need to get in their way.
 
The_Jamal said:
DDR? I thought Monk was the guy getting floated in the DC package?

Who knows at this point man. Let the Warriors burn at this point and deal with Kuminga into the year. They're being stupid with this whole situation.
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Seriously, this is getting embarrassing. Kings just need to walk away and let the Warriors choose between Grayson Allen or an unhappy Kuminga who can later choose where he wants to go should Warriors try to trade him at the deadline.
 
Padrino said:
I dunno if this is a moronic answer, but... because it was easy? The tech to make this happen is tremendously low-friction in 2025. It doesn't cost anybody anything to say, "Hey, we're interested in you. Wanna talk?" It's not like they flew him out and had franchise ambassadors wine and dine him. The Kings may be interested at a certain price. Kuminga may be interested in a starting role. An the Warriors may be interested in... well, I honestly have no idea what they expect out of this situation. They have the leverage, yes, but they're also hamstringing themselves in the process. So go wild, I say. If they want to screw themselves over, no need to get in their way.
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Yeah the "Resign Kuminga to trade him at the 2026 deadline" seems like a truly awful idea. They don't want him and Kerr doesn't want to play him. So if he's getting 15ish MPG at the deadline? Averaging like 8 PPG and 5 RPG? Who's picking up the tab on that?

They've already screwed themselves out of a big haul for Kuminga, but they can still save face, somewhat, because he's so young with a bunch of potential. They still haven't signed Horf or Melton btw... are they going to wait forever?

You have a team with 3 future HOF'ers that have a couple seasons, maybe, of being able to go contend for a title. It's truly wild to me that they're willingly going to throw a giant wrench into one of these finals seasons with this Kuminga fiasco
 
iowamcnabb said:
Here’s my question, why did Perry, BJ and Doug do a conference call with a guy that they don’t want to pay and that his current team doesn’t want any of our available players in trade? Most of the information out there doesn’t add up.
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Padrino said:
I dunno if this is a moronic answer, but... because it was easy? The tech to make this happen is tremendously low-friction in 2025. It doesn't cost anybody anything to say, "Hey, we're interested in you. Wanna talk?" It's not like they flew him out and had franchise ambassadors wine and dine him. The Kings may be interested at a certain price. Kuminga may be interested in a starting role. An the Warriors may be interested in... well, I honestly have no idea what they expect out of this situation. They have the leverage, yes, but they're also hamstringing themselves in the process. So go wild, I say. If they want to screw themselves over, no need to get in their way.
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Light it up said:
Seriously, this is getting embarrassing. Kings just need to walk away and let the Warriors choose between Grayson Allen or an unhappy Kuminga who can later choose where he wants to go should Warriors try to trade him at the deadline.
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First of all like @Padrino says, it's easy. But I think @Light it up may be on to something with the bolded part. If Kings make the right sales pitch, and Kuminga thinks Sacramento is his path forward the way Fox felt about San Antonio, maybe it ultimately strengthens our cause.

It would be neat if we had something to bluff GS with, although I guess that is simply just running it back.
 
Joshyjosh31 said:
So the dumbass front office would trade Carter and a first for someone who they wouldn’t offer 20 million to
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Nobody else is champing at the bit to give him more than that either. It also gets incredibly hard to make the salary work because BYC rules beyond 20 million. I think the valuation is probably correct.
 
Famous last words but I feel like if Giannis was going to ask out he could have done it after Dame went down and they waived him nobody would have pointed a finger or said a bad word. He might just feel home there?
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Famous last words but I feel like if Giannis was going to ask out he could have done it after Dame went down and they waived him nobody would have pointed a finger or said a bad word. He might just feel home there?
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At the very least I’d imagine he gives them 2 full years. They stretched Dames contract and brought in Giannis preferred center this offseason. If he does indeed stay for 2 years Curry, Butler and Jimmy could be retired by then, can’t imagine they would be good candidate to land Giannis.
 
How does Kuminga fit in Phoenix? Book, Green and JK would be Beal, Book, KD all over again only worse. Sure the Kings have a log jam too but Deebo is likely to be gone next year. One or both of Lavine/Monk could be too. Easier to see a long term path for JK in Sac over ‘Zona.
 
iowamcnabb said:
This has to be frustrating if you are Kuminga. He can’t really sign the qualifying offer because teams don’t have cap space anymore. He’d have to sign a midlevel next year most likely unless Washington is interested. If he signs with the Warriors he has to take less money and play for a team that doesn’t want him and only signed him to trade.
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If anything this situation is absolutely torching the Warriors reputation with agents so they can feel free to let this drag on as looooong as they’d like.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Yeah I don't see Kuminga signing the QO at all. On the other hand why are the Warriors insisting on putting a team option and setting it up so they can f him of his Bird rights? What a trash organization to treat their players like that.
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We are talking about the same franchise that sided with a guy who suckerpunched his own teammate in the back of the noggin after all
 
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