The Warriors do not want to include the contract of either Moses Moody or Buddy Hield as part of a possible Jonathan Kuminga sign-and-trade with the Kings, confirms Sam Amick of The Athletic in a new report. That essentially stalls the deal indefinitely, as one of those players would need to be part of the offing.
For now, Golden State expects Kuminga to return to the team for 2025/26. Still, a lot of time is left between now and Kuminga’s October 1 qualifying deadline, meaning there is room for further sign-and-trade discussions to happen somewhere.
The 6’8″ vet was hurt for much of the 2024/25, but when he did play he exhibited some appetizing athleticism and scoring touch. In 47 healthy games, Kuminga averaged 15.3 PPG, 4.6 RPG, and 2.2 APG.
There’s more out of the Pacific Division:
- There could be mutual interest between the Warriors and Suns regarding a Kuminga sign-and-trade, writes Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic. Rankin cautions, however, that an agreement could still be a long shot. Per Rankin, the 22-year-old sees Phoenix as being the kind of team where he’ll get to enjoy a big, consistent role alongside All-Star guard Devin Booker. The Suns have talked to Booker’s agent, Aaron Turner, but the Warriors are apparently not interested in a Phoenix return package.
- New Suns trade acquisition Jalen Green‘s backcourt fit with Booker could use some work. Gerald Bourgeut of PHNX Sports breaks down three areas of his game that the former No. 2 overall pick needs to improve for the Booker tandem to succeed. Last year on the 52-30 Rockets, Green averaged a Houston-most 21.0 points and 3.4 dimes a night. He has intriguing upside as a supplemental creator and scorer next to Green.
- In case you missed it, Lakers All-Star forward LeBron James has been amenable to L.A.’s new pivot to focusing its team-building around the younger Luka Doncic.
Warriors also don’t want to pay Monk for 3 years. Kings need to find another team that wants Monk and go from there. If Monk is so valuable as Kings think he is it would be easy to find some teams wanting to trade assets for him. Can’t blame warriors for not wanting to trade Moody who still has upside. heild who is only on a $9 million deal.
Moody’s upside .. not earth shattering
This is Moody make or break year. He is going to get minutes and he is healthy. He just needs to be consisitent on the offense.
Not including Buddy, lols. Like the kings want him, already had Buddy. Also Buddy and Moody don’t have to be included for the Warriors to get Monk and possibly a future first. Sign and trade Kuminga for $25 per works just fine. If it’s DeRozen in a trade it’s one of Buddy or Moody included. Any word on what the latter does for Sacramentos cap or is it a one way street? lols. It wouldn’t be great going forward. Once again the Sam Amicks of this world are spinning the wheels in the mud. Reporting to the masses, the large interest from Warriors fans. So nothing has changed….still the gift that keeps giving. This is a train wreck in slow motion.
BYC. Kuminga counts for 12m not 25M.
So if GSW want to not be hard capped the 19M Monk makes cant be more than 120% of GSW outgoing. You have to have at least 16.5M outgoing to take Monk in and still be able to go to the second apron.
Buddy would have to go to another team with room or a exception, and you probably need to give the other team an asset to take him.
GSW also seem to not want Monk period, so SAC needs to find someone else to take Monk. I think they would have to shed more salary than that in order to pay Kuminga what he wants in the S&T since it would hard cap them and they arent 21M under the first apron.
do I have this right? nobody has made an RFA offer to Kuminga? at this point I dont even care…..stay or go. Just do something
Nobody but BRK has the space to. That is literally the only team that can make any of the 3 RFA that arent Thomas an offer sheet.
Green is a better fit than Beal in Phoenix. I don’t see Kuminga as a fit there. He and Green are similar style players. It’s not about accumulating talent it’s about creating chemistry. Suns have been horrible at it since breaking up their Finals team. Imo if you really want Kuminga. Then you have to move Booker. And now you have a good young core. To build around. Green, Kuminga, Dunn, Maluach.
Imo the offers aren’t going to be great. They should get better as they approach Oct 1st. I don’t understand why Bucks aren’t trying to land Kuminga. He is what Giannis needs. And they have picks to move.
I don’t get why Suns want Kuminga too since they are similar players. Suns owner is a rich guy that has no patience to build a team.
No one’s gonna want booker at 70 plus mill … are they ?