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GSW Gets: Malik Monk
GSW Gives: Jonathan Kuminga (S&T $124 mil over 5 years)
Why for GSW? The Warriors avoid giving Kuminga a big pay day, but bring in a 27 year old, combo guard who is locked up on a reasonable deal for the next 3 years. Monk would also be a very good fit in their free flowing, fast pace system. He's an unselfish player with solid vision/passing that can handle the rock a bit (allowing Curry to move off ball) and be effective playing off of Curry, Butler, & Green.

PG - Curry / Monk
SG - Moody / Podziemski / Richard
SF - Butler / Hield / Toohey
PF - Green/ Santos
C - Jackson-Davis / Post

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SAC Gets: Jonathan Kuminga (S&T $124 mil over 5 years)
SAC Gives: Malik Monk
Why for SAC? The Kings help clear their log jam at guard and get some much needed forward depth while taking a swing on Kuminga's upside.

PG - Schroder / Carter
SG - LaVine / Ellis / Davis
SF - Murray / DeRozan / Clifford
PF - Kuminga / Raynaud / Saric
C - Sabonis / Eubanks/ Jones

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Interesting idea...

this is the most Kings move imaginable.

I hate it

Why for Kuminga?

I assume its $125M, but I don't want to presume for your thread. But he is a free agent so he has to agree.

I’m good with this

I think you need to send Moody or Hield somewhere to make it legal. And sign and trades can’t be five years I don’t think.

But even bringing it down to a four year deal - even if this is front loaded, it’s at most 27-28 mil first year (didn’t check, but 5% of 28..) so BYC and Warriors shouldn’t do this and trigger a first apron hard cap in same deal.. theyd be a tax team after this and be really limited filling bench.

But I still really like the idea for GSW.

Sac I like it less but I would understand taking the shot.

It's not a bad trade, but not one I would be excited about. If you're giving up potential, you need to get immediate fit at a need. Monk would be useful, but he's a combo guard who isn't that good of a 3 point shooter and isn't a good defender.

Warriors more than anything need 3 point shooting, Monk needs the ball in his hands just like JK and neither are good from deep. I'd probably just keep JK and hope he improves (his game or value) and then make a trade during the season.

Kuminga wins, getting a contract no one else wants to give him.

Value wise it favors Sac, but I hope we don’t chase Kuminga as he isn’t good. Inefficient, bad shooter without bbiq

Seems like a lot of smoke about kuminga to sac. Most recent I've seen is

Monk to Detroit
Carter + saric to gs
Kuminga to sac

At what # for kuminga idk. I do like kuminga and think hes a worthwhile swing for a bad kings team with little youth. But the idea of schroder, demar, lavine, kuminga is making me wanna throw up.

Got to keep in mind that the long term plan would be keon-keegan-kuminga the rest is TBD
And those 3 fit well together

LightTheBeam wrote:Seems like a lot of smoke about kuminga to sac. Most recent I've seen is

Monk to Detroit
Carter + saric to gs
Kuminga to sac

At what # for kuminga idk. I do like kuminga and think hes a worthwhile swing for a bad kings team with little youth. But the idea of schroder, demar, lavine, kuminga is making me wanna throw up.

Got to keep in mind that the long term plan would be keon-keegan-kuminga the rest is TBD
And those 3 fit well together

Pretty sure the Warriors wouldn’t have any interest in this construction, unless there was more compensation (picks?) coming back to them.

Recall that in ‘23-‘24, Saric was with the Warriors, and he ended the season as being unplayable on the bench.

And I don’t know how much the Warriors might like Carter, but probably not enough to make them take this deal as opposed to simply matching whatever the offer would be on Kuminga.

There's no way DD accepts coming off the bench

LightTheBeam wrote:Seems like a lot of smoke about kuminga to sac. Most recent I've seen is

Monk to Detroit
Carter + saric to gs
Kuminga to sac

At what # for kuminga idk. I do like kuminga and think hes a worthwhile swing for a bad kings team with little youth. But the idea of schroder, demar, lavine, kuminga is making me wanna throw up.

Got to keep in mind that the long term plan would be keon-keegan-kuminga the rest is TBD
And those 3 fit well together

Look. If Perry gets Kuminga and ships off DDR without attaching a 1st I will be shocked as hell. The 2nd point is, it puts Keegan to the 3 where he belongs. That is enough to know this is no brainer. BUT. Let's pause and see if a) the smoke is out there because it WAS a thing and has fallen through and b) there is no significant compensation leaving the Kings because if you're giving up Monk and Carter you damn well better be getting a decent player.