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

[Joshyjosh31]

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Which has been obvious for over a year now. And why the GS posturing of "Oh, Kuminga is such a future star, we'd only consider trading him for a massive haul" was always so stupid. Any player the actually would have valued in that way would never get to this point in the off-season without a contract and really no path to one at this point.

You get Monk or DDR and that's it. Or you can let Kuminga take the QO and get nothing. Protected FRP should be gone from Perry's offer

Golden State has won 4 championships in the last 11 years, I'm sure they'll survive regardless of what happens with Kuminga. The Kings, meanwhile, have 3 winning seasons in the last 20 years and haven't won a playoff series since 2004. One of these franchises (theirs) is trying to do right by their Hall of Fame superstar in the last few years of his career and the other (ours) is starting over yet again with a new coach and front office and a roster of leftover parts nobody else will take from us for free.

So you really think ours is the front office that gets to kick back and patiently wait for some other franchise to make a mistake in our favor? We're not even at the big boys table, we're in the lobby waiting for a seat. In that context, yes I'll burn an asset if it means not throwing away another season. I'm not sure you all realize how precarious our situation is right now. If this season goes poorly we may be watching Keon Ellis leave for nothing, Sabonis quietly announcing that the Kings have two years to trade him, and a locker room full of frustrated veterans on one or two year deals all begging their agents to get them the hell out of here. We also haven't seen any movement on a Keegan Murray extension yet. I'm not personally in any kind of a mood to point the finger at Golden State and laugh at their misfortune. Their situation isn't great but they still hold a lot more cards than we do.