February 24: The Hawks list Kuminga as available for Tuesday’s game (Twitter link).
February 23: New Hawks forward Jonathan Kuminga has been upgraded to questionable ahead of Tuesday’s game vs. Washington, tweets Brad Rowland of Locked on Hawks. According to Anthony Slater of ESPN, Kuminga is expected to make his Hawks debut tomorrow against the Wizards (Twitter link).
Kuminga last played on January 22, when he suffered a bone bruise in his left knee after hyperextending it. Atlanta acquired the 23-year-old along with Buddy Hield ahead of the trade deadline in the move which saw Kristaps Porzingis head to Golden State.
The seventh overall pick in the 2021 draft, Kuminga had a prolonged contract standoff with the Warriors as a restricted free agent last offseason. He ultimately signed a two-year, $46.8MM deal that includes a $24.3MM team option for next season.
The final 23 games of the season will be important for Kuminga, as that team option means he could be an unrestricted free agent this summer. Through 20 games this season, he has averaged 12.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 23.8 minutes per contest, with a shooting slash line of .454/.321/.742.
Atlanta, which made a noteworthy change to its starting lineup for Sunday’s win over Brooklyn, is currently 28-31, the No. 9 seed in the Eastern Conference. This is the fifth straight season in which the Hawks project to make the play-in tournament.
As a Hawks fan, I am intrigued. Not by the Wizards.
JK is putting up 30. You let him play.
30? That wouldn’t be his career high. I see he has 4 assists. Maybe he got the message.
link to yardbarker.com
OK —. 27 pts. In 24 mins LMAO 😱😂😂🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩
9/12 FG — 3/4 3pt — 6/7 FT — +17 — 7 reb, 4 ast
“ Jonathan Kuminga dazzles in Hawks debut after getting dumped by Warriors”
Anthony Edwards + Jalen Johnson + Jonathan Kuminga…coming soon!!
That would be a great core
2 of those 3 would be a good core.
Don’t forget Dyson ….
Lmfao
Edwards is in the 2nd year of a 5 year max. He’s the Twolves 1st option, obviously there’s no way they trade him to the Hawks.
Bizarre!
NBA is OK, the talk of Ant ending up in Atlanta isn’t new… he reps Atlanta hard.
Minnesota is a tiny market, and Ant is emerging as one of the most marketable athletes in America.
The long-term prospects for this Minnesota roster look much worse this year than last. OKC and San Antonio are ascending. Meanwhile, Gobert is fading and Randall isn’t a legit #2 on a contending team. They’ve traded away their FRP’s.
If next season (2026-27) Minnesota seems to have dropped permanently into the second tier in the West, I think we’ll start to hear talk of Edwards being moved.
I’m not saying it happens, but Davey is echoing the scuttlebutt…
Bah …. I agree. He’s from there lol.
The Wolves have made the WCF for 2 straight years, and he’s their max player.
Being from ATLANTA DOESN’T CHANGE THOSE FACTS.
Sickening
I predict Kuminga will get 20 and the Hawks will give up 25 more pts than normal.
I will be watching
Wow, first came back 27 points, nine for 12 from the field seven rebounds.
A lot of pent up energy and he made it happen tonight. Good for him.
After everything that went on this year and even prior to it, he deserves a fantastic opening game with the Hawks. Well done !!
The bad thing about Kuminga having a good game and possibly a great career is people won’t get over it. They will be taking swipes at Kerr 10 years after he has retired. Some will want to try him at the International Crimimal Court for crimes against humanity. They don’t realize that this happens all the time. Players go onto have success with other teams. It happens in every sport. Don’t you think the Lakers wish they hadn’t traded Zubac 6 years ago.
Was Zubac a 1st round pick, let alone a high #7 pick? Was Zubac with the Lakers for 5 long years? No and NO. He was mostly a GLeague player who played for Lakers 1 yr.
You have trashed Kuminga worse than Kerr LOL.
Great start. His issue has always been consistency. For his sake I hope he figures that part out because he is talented.
@ GaryRSW
The basketball gods removing Johnson from the game really helped (as did the Hawks having waited until the 16 win Wizards were in town to debut him). I’m happy for him that it went so well!
The Pels have a super easy schedule through March, it will be interesting to see how much playing time he gets.
GSW siding with Kerr instead of Kuminga is going to haunt them forever. My god Steve stinks. What have we done? (made the Hawks a lot better).
So I saud JK would put up 30 😳😵💫😱
Off by 3 pts LOLS. In 24 mins …. 27 POINTS
9/12 aFG, 3/4 3pt, 6/7 FT ….. you gave this away for NoTtting. And passed on Raynaud in draft. Who’s in charge here — Giants 74 n Gary RedSotcjings 😳🤮
Finally confirmed my email address so there’s that
> GSW siding with Kerr instead of Kuminga is going to
> haunt them forever.
Agree. The news about Porzingis’ POTS illness being so active is devastating. Nobody will want to give him a contract this summer. That’s $30M of value gone, and that can’t be used in a trade this summer. Devastating.
But Kerr got what he wanted.
He’s trying so hard to make Spencer and Santos stars, lol