Why the Warriors should and will re-sign Kuminga

[whatisacenter]

The problem with that is teams won't have cap space to sign Kuminga outright - they need to trade for him. And Kuminga needs a higher base salary to ever get the kind of money in a new contract he thinks he's worth. He will never make up the salary he lost by passing on the Warriors' two-year, $45 mil offer on the table.

Meh, the warriors in reality offered JK a 1 year deal that leaves him 0 control next season.

He will have the choice between having some control at 7.9M or getting paid more and having no control.

It's only a one-year deal if Kuminga totally sucks. And in that case a one-year, $20 mil deal is better than a one-year, $8 mil deal amirite?

Depends on what JK wants. I don't think he has a lot of trust in Kerr/FO.

[Twinkie defense]

The one drawback is that teams making a big deal (if trading jk for a starter) at the deadline has never worked out well that season.

Jimmy Butler says hi!

[Ilovethebay]

I'm sorry to say it, but Jimmy is 50% cooked. Maybe 40%, but definitely medium rare. At this point, he's a top tier role player that can give you 20 points sometimes, but can't be counted on as a 20ppg scorer.

People focus too much on points per game instead of playing winning basketball - Jimmy Butler was #4 overall on the Warriors at +188, and that was with just 30 games played. And he very much elevated the games of other Warriors, like Podz and Moody. It's not coincidental that the Warriors went on a tear after trading for Jimmy Butler. Kuminga on the other hand got on a scoring streak against the T-Wolves, and the Warriors lost every game he scored more than 10 points.

So disingenuous. If Curry doesn’t play we don’t win. Especially in the playoffs. If anyone else (Moody, Podz, etc) had a break out performance like Kuminga did against the Timberwolves (even while losing) people would start claiming they were headed for stardom. Again I say, so disingenuous .

[Twinkie defense]

You mean, why do the rebuild. The answer: because it is upon us. Not doing it is simply delaying, lengthening the time until the team can contend again.

I thought this way until the Warriors traded for Jimmy Butler. If not for Steph's injury they would have gotten to the WCF with a track history of playing well agains the eventual Champs. I will take that every single season! No matter what you do with the roster it's not 100% that you win the Championship (see: 2019).

[Twinkie defense]

I'm sorry to say it, but Jimmy is 50% cooked. Maybe 40%, but definitely medium rare. At this point, he's a top tier role player that can give you 20 points sometimes, but can't be counted on as a 20ppg scorer.

People focus too much on points per game instead of playing winning basketball - Jimmy Butler was #4 overall on the Warriors at +188, and that was with just 30 games played. And he very much elevated the games of other Warriors, like Podz and Moody. It's not coincidental that the Warriors went on a tear after trading for Jimmy Butler. Kuminga on the other hand got on a scoring streak against the T-Wolves, and the Warriors lost every game he scored more than 10 points.

So disingenuous. If Curry doesn’t play we don’t win. Especially in the playoffs. If anyone else (Moody, Podz, etc) had a break out performance like Kuminga did against the Timberwolves (even while losing) people would start claiming they were headed for stardom. Again I say, so disingenuous .

What's disingenuous is claiming that Jonathan Kuminga is the key to winning basketball.

[Onus]

The advice to play on the qo would be akin to his current advisors. Just throwing money away.

From thinking he was going to get 35M a year to possibly 20M a year. Yea that’s going to take some time to process. I would tell my agent to leave no stone unturned to get as close to 35M a year as well. It does nothing for jk to sign now since the warriors aren’t putting any pressure on him to sign now. It’s not like they’re going to rescind their offer.

The only thing I would say is that as time goes on, Kuminga's leverage gets less and less as teams who have interest in him move on.

Jks only leverage is in bluffing to sign the qo. Which is a terrible move for him unless he’s really emotional and wants to throw away 14M dollars.