{"id":555015,"date":"2026-01-23T07:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555015\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:38:41","slug":"kuminga-suffers-minor-injuries-remains-adamant-about-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555015\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuminga Suffers Minor Injuries, Remains Adamant About Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuminjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>\u2018s night was cut short by injuries on Thursday and he\u2019s not interested in playing with the Warriors much longer, according to an NBA insider.<\/p>\n<p>Kumings twisted his left ankle and hyperextended his left knee during a second-quarter drive against the Mavericks, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47699081\/warriors-kuminga-done-night-ankle-knee-injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Slater of The Athletic<\/a> reports.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t play the remainder of the contest but neither injury is believed to be serious, Slater added. He\u2019ll undergo an MRI on Friday, Marc Stein of The Stein Line <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2014539767522771434\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga, who has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/01\/warriors-jonathan-kuminga-demands-trade.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">demanded a trade<\/a>, played 21 minutes on Tuesday in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy Butler<\/a>\u2018s season-ending knee injury. Kuminga had 20 points and five rebounds in 21 minutes against Toronto. He was off to a strong start in Thursday\u2019s contest, supplying 10 points, two assists and two steals in nine minutes prior to his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Steve Kerr said prior to the contest that Kuminga would remain in the rotation, according to Nick Friedell of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickFriedell\/status\/2014474797737021828\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). However, Kuminga hasn\u2019t softened on his trade demand, Chris Haynes reported during an NBA on Prime segment (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAonPrime\/status\/2014493209582289055\" rel=\"nofollow\">video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKuminga has no desire to remain a member of the Golden State Warriors. He is very much hoping that he will be dealt by the deadline,\u201d Hayes said, adding that \u201chis relationship with head coach Steve Kerr is fractured beyond repair. He\u2019s felt that he hasn\u2019t had any organizational support throughout this process, so he\u2019s felt devalued with the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haynes also reported that the Warriors might just wait until the summer to trade the 23-year-old forward and that rival teams have told him the Warriors refuse to bring in extra salary going into next season in any Kuminga trade.<\/p>\n<p>GM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dunlemi02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Dunleavy<\/a> Jr. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/01\/warriors-dunleavy-kerr-discuss-butler-kuminga.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stated this week<\/a> that the market for Kuminga is cool. \u201cIn terms of demands, when there\u2019s a demand, there needs to be a demand on the market. So we\u2019ll see how that unfolds,\u201d\u00a0Dunleavy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga\u2018s night was cut short by injuries on Thursday and he\u2019s not interested in playing with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,313,867,863],"class_list":{"0":"post-555015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jimmy-butler","10":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","11":"tag-steve-kerr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115943277957840958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}