Shams Drops MASSIVE Suns Trade Update…

Shams Drops MASSIVE Suns Trade Update…

We’ve got some new updates revolving around the Phoenix Suns as Sham Shirania drops a massive bombshell trade update that’s going to have you wanting to be interested to see what Brian Gregory and Matt Ishbia are doing behind the scenes as Jonathan Kaminga his name is still out there with the Golden State Warriors and the Suns are still linked with him offering a contract in a potential signin trade. With that being said, what are the holdups and could this get through? We’ll be diving and exploring all of this and more on this episode of Suns Digest. I’m your host, Bruce BZ. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and showing your support here on the channel. Sorry for the lack of uploads in the past couple of days. There just has been not a lot of content as we know in Sunsland really to break down and look at. But with this latest news, I wanted to dive in and get your guys’ thoughts and explore mine as well. So, let me know what you think down below in the comments section relating to the Phoenix Suns. And let’s get into this new news. Just make sure to grab that snack as Jonathan Kaminga has been the hottest name out there in free agency now with restricted free agency looking like it’s going to start to potentially pick up in these next couple of weeks with names, you know, flying around still and with the unrestricted free agency market not being that big anymore. And we want to dive in and look at the latest. We can see from Shams Shirania that Golden State made a renewed push to retain Jonathan Kaminga, but the restricted free agent continues to decline a two-year $45 million offer due to the Warriors insistence on a team option and waving a built-in no trade clause. Sources tell ESPN. And we got some more details relating with this from Anthony Slater, who is now working at ESPN. And Shams and Anthony broke down the recent updates revolving around the Warriors. Like Shams mentioned here, the Warriors are trying to get Jonathan Kaminga to sign a 2-year deal worth $45 million. But the Warriors want Jonathan Kaminga to have to have a built-in no trade clause in which he waves that no trade clause. So, they have the option to freely trade him going into this next off season or potentially for him to have the option to go into free agency next year and for them to have a better option to do a sign-in trade. And his a and Jonathan Kaminga does not want that as his agent Aaron Turner has presented the Warriors a few different frameworks of other deals when they met in Vegas. One was a three-year deal worth around $82 million that allowed the Warriors to not only stay below the second apron to use the taxpayer mid-level exception, but also give Jonathan Kaminga a number that he was comfortable in receiving from a Warriors team. Kaminga and Turner have used the month of July to explore their sign and trade options with the most significant negotiations have been done with the Sacramento Kings and the Phoenix Suns as they have been getting up proposals of four years approaching $90 million in total including a player option for the final season in those deals. Phoenix has made the most lucrative push via a signin trade and that has been clear with this kind of frame here. four years, $90 million contract. That would roughly estimate to $22.5 million. A lot of people were talking about what is Jonathan Kaminga really worth here in free agency. I don’t think he’s worth anything more than 22 and roughly 22.5. I’d be willing to pay, you know, half a million, 500k to kind of get him. That’s that’s not that bad. But it’s roughly was in my ballpark of guesstimation of where I would give a restricted free agent. Personally, I think the lowest you can kind of give him is around 18 to 20. But more comfortably, I think 22 as the maximum 22 and a half would be great. 25 I feel like is just a tad bit too much. Even if you want to just be like, oh, rounding to the fifth, to the five, or rounding to the 10 just to make it easier for the guy in moneywise, that that $2.5 million could realistically screw you if they’re being Suns because you already have so many restrictions already with being a first apron or with having the money from the Bradley Beal buyout that’s already on your books. And that is just not a good sign to be giving out more money if you don’t really have the money to be giving out. So, in my opinion, I would not be doing that. 22 and a half I think is kind of comfortable for a guy in Jonathan Kaminga. But as we all know to get that $22.5 million deal, the Suns would be giving a signing trade offer of roughly Grayson Allen and Nick Richards. That’s $17 million from Grayson Allen plus that $5 million from Nick Richards would equal the contract that the Suns could give to Jonathan Kaminga. So then they still have the flexibility of the non-Tax mid-level exception. still have the flexibility of being underneath both aprons, but now have another wing in Jonathan Kaminga on the roster with kind of fixing their front courtroom while still keeping Oil Gadaro and also fig uh clearing out a little bit of their guard room there as well. Now, personally, and they would free open another roster spot, which would allow them to still have some more flexibility in free agency to bring in someone in at probably that guard spot to replace Grayson Allen. But but but the Warriors, like I’ve said multiple times when talking about the Suns and talking about Jonathan Kaminga, are not interested in the trade returns from the Kings and the Suns for Jonathan Kaminga. Why would the Why would the Warriors want Grayson Allen if they already have Buddy Healed and all these other great shooters? Why? I mean, Nick Richards makes sense. He could be a solid backup big. They did just lose Kevon Looney, but John uh Grayson Allen as that centerpiece doesn’t make sense. And the Warriors view Jonathan Kaminga as a guy that can be a potential star. So why are they going to trade a guy that could be a potential star for some role player type guys when they think if they can bring back Jonathan Kaminga going into either next off seasonason or this trade season or even into next free agency, they can get a better deal for Jonathan Kiminga to help push them over the top. That’s what the Warriors want to use a Jonathan Kaminga deal for. Unfortunately, Kaminda’s play and for the lack of thereof from Steve Kerr giving him that play has not been able to boost his stock to be able to showcase those skills out there in the NBA for a team to feel confident to trade for him. But if the Warriors did bring him back on a deal that they feel comfortable in, which is either a qualifying offer or something similar to that, then they can renegotiate a deal with Kaminga to get him on a trade somewhere else or to try to really find out his value for those teams so that they can get a star level package in return. In recent days, they have begun signaling a plan to cut off sign and trade restrictions and conversations entirely using the restricted free agency leverage to their fullest. Sources said their current stance is that Kaminga will be on the Warriors roster to begin next season either through their two-year offer on the table of a four two-year $45 million deal or with the standing $7.9 million one-year qualifying offer, which is Kaminga’s preferred path. Kam Kaminga prefers the longest ter the longer term offers presented by the kings and sons obviously because he believes that they can signal he can signify a fresh start there and a larger guaranteed role a promised starting position and a greater level of respect and a career control shown to part the shown to part through the player option sources said Phoenix’s proposal is also nearly 70 more million guaranteed than the Warriors offering $70 million more guaranteed don’t freak out about that it just means is 70. They’re comparing that $90 million deal to the Jonathan Kaminga obviously uh other deal which is a two-year $45 million deal which technically isn’t a two-year $45 million deal. It’s technically a one-year $22.5 million deal with a one-year non-G guarantee player option or team option that the team can wave. So like they said that wording is to make you feel scary and be like, “Wow, the Suns are overpaying for Jonathan Kaminga.” But let me tell you, it is not them overpaying for Jonathan Kaminga at all. And the wording right there is just absolutely atrocious and just is just there from ESPN to make the Suns look bad as a front office because that’s what everyone’s been doing to try to paint them to make them look like the bad guys. Oh my god, the Suns are going to overpay for Jonathan Kaminga. No, they’re not. Clearly, if they were going to pay overpay for Jonathan Kaminga, they already would have because they would have tried to move Grayson now and they would have tried to move Roy O’Neal. They would have tried to move Nick Richards to get other assets to flip to try to get Jonathan Kaminga. That hasn’t happened yet. So the the the Suns have not indeed overpaid for him. And even if they did bring him in, right, a 4-year, $90 million contract at $22.5 million is only $5 million more than a guy in Grayson Allen. And for someone that would be in the starting role making 22 $22 million would not be a bad deal at all. Starting at that either small forward or power forward position alongside Ryan Dunn. Ultimately, the Warriors have declined these trades because like I mentioned, they don’t want Grayson Allen. Maybe they want Nick Richards. They want Ryan Dunn. They want Oscodaro. And the Suns are not willing to include those guys in those trade proposals. With them not willing to include those guys in those trade proposals, that ultimately puts a hindrance for Jonathan Kaminga to come to Phoenix. Obviously, he wants to go to Phoenix or go to uh Sacramento because he feels like Golden State has slated him. He feels like they haven’t given him a big enough opportunity for him to shine in the NBA and he sell that to ESPN. He’s in no rush to move forward with a deal with the Warriors. Obviously, he’s largely about control, and the option to dispute is at the crux of it. Believes accepting the Warriors two-year offer with a team option along with forfeiting trade veto rights seeds too much control to a franchise he believes has stunned and strung his career along for four seasons. And I would agree with Kaminga on that part. The Suns and Kings have pitched Kaminga on the type of a defined role that he has eluded with the Warriors. Obviously, someone that can actually play as a secondary or third star option. When you look at the Suns, he would kind of seemingly kind of be that second or third option offensively depending alongside Jaylen Green. Playing alongside Jaylen Green to compete for that behind Devin Booker on the Sacramento Kings obviously would be competing to be another top tier offensive option alongside guys like Simonus, uh, Zack Lavine. I don’t know what they do with Demar De Rozan at that point, but anyways, that’s beside the point. Golden State coach Steve Kerr made several comments about the Jimmy Butler trade that Kaminga fit alongside Butler. Steph Curry and Draymond Green made it difficult for him to play consistent big minutes and sources say Kaminga is more enticed with the external options while viewing Curry as someone who has made it clear there is not a defined big minute opportunity every night for the Warriors. So even though he is willing to potentially go back there he’d rather obviously pursue a signing trade because makes sense for him. they stunted his growth and he feels like even if he does go back there for them to try to bolster their trade value for them to trade him for another big star that that’s not going to happen and that they’re not going to allow him to have that opportunity and it’s only just going to hinder him having a better season this year. Lastly, ba based on the collective bargaining agreement the Warriors proposed oneplus one contract would have a no trade clause as we all know as Kaminga’s next team wouldn’t maintain his bird rights that would give Kaminga a level of control over his next NBA home should the Warriors decide to move him. But the Warriors requested that he wave that implied no trade clause cause similar to what D’Angelo Russell did for the war for the Lakers in 2023. This negotiating hassle is another example of why it’s a tug-of-war control for Kaminga’s future. And it’s why despite this short and long-term financial risk, Kaminga is expressing a willingness to potentially take this qualifying offer. He would be declining that 14 million extra a year per next season, but also give him the implied no trade clause in a shot at unrestricted free agency next summer. Basically, long story short, the Suns want Jonathan Kiminga. We have known this. This has been said multiple times, not here only on the channel, but also on social media from every various media outlet. Suns are interested. They would like to give Jonathan Kiminga a four-year $90 million deal. They’re willing to offer Grayson Allen and basically Nick Richards in that deal. The Warriors are declining those options. The Warriors don’t want those players. The Warriors want Ryan Donosaro. The Suns are basically telling them to kick rocks and then we’re here. We’ll have to see what happens. Will Jonathan Kaminga become a son? Personally, I don’t think so. I think the Warriors are going to stand pat from what we’ve seen from Jonathan Kaminga here. He’s willing to take that two-year $45 million offer if the Warriors are going to take their full leverage and nick these sign and trade routes. He’s willing to take that qualifying offer and try to prove himself next year. And I think that’s ultimately what we are going to be seeing transpire. I do not think he’ll be traded to the Suns because once again, the Warriors here, like I mentioned, have the leverage. They don’t need Grayson Allen right now. They don’t need Nick Richards right now. They can bring back Jonathan Kaminga, go into free agency, make their moves that they have yet to make this entire free agency by bringing back all of their guys and then waiting until the trade deadline, figuring out what they want to do, and then make more moves involving Jonathan McGood throughout the season. They don’t need to make this move initially right now. They’re not in desperation for guys like Grayson Allen and Nick Richards. That’s where I stand. Let me know your thoughts down below in the comment section. Would you like Jonathan Kiminga? Personally, I’m not for as much as the Suns have been interested in him and the talk has been kind of gainering around him. I’m not as high on a guy in Jonathan Kimo, but I wouldn’t mind the possibility of seeing him come in here for the right price. And I think $22 million isn’t too bad of a price in my eyes. Once again, let me know your thoughts down below in the comment section. what you ultimately think about the Phoenix Suns and how you think this would impact this Suns team going into next season. Thank you guys so much for tuning in, showing your support, and I’ll catch you guys in the next one. Have a great rest of your day and go Phoenix Suns. Peace out everyone.

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