With the new NBA season slowly starting to appear on the horizon, the Golden State Warriors‘ front office will likely feel some level of pressure to finally reach a contract agreement with Jonathan Kuminga and end the current stalemate. Furthermore, the front office would likely want to start adding some new faces to the roster before the start of training camp.
According to ESPN’s Anthony Slater, conversations between the Warriors and Kuminga’s representation have been renewed in recent days. Nevertheless, there’s still no guarantee that those discussions will result in an agreement between the Warriors and their former lottery pick.
“Well, there’s been renewed conversations between the two sides,” Anthony Slater said via a recent episode of ESPN’s “NBA Today.” “There’s dialogue, but as you all know, talking doesn’t necessarily equal movement. They’ve shared contract concepts and opinions about the whole thing between each other this last week, dating back to last weekend. Kuminga wants more of a player-friendly deal, more of a signal that he’s a building block, not a trade asset.”
Sooner or later, Kuminga and the Warriors will need to find a middle ground. Whether that means Golden State offers him a contract that fulfils some of his current wishes, they move him in a sign-and-trade or he signs his qualifying offer, remains to be seen. But the current stalemate has hung over the franchise all summer. There has to be an inflection point for the franchise, so they can move forward with their preparations for next season.
The hope, of course, is that Kuminga re-signs with the Warriors and can make an impact next season. But after a summer of testing the waters elsewhere, his long-term tenure in the Bay Area is far from guaranteed.
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