{"id":669821,"date":"2026-03-21T01:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/669821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:16:48","slug":"hawks-jonathan-kuminga-out-friday-but-will-play-against-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/669821\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks Jonathan Kuminga out Friday, but will play against Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While continued knee issues will keep Atlanta Hawks forward Jonathan Kuminga out for the team\u2019s matchup on Friday against the Houston Rockets, Dalton Johnson of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DaltonJ_Johnson\/status\/2034831328362078443?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBCSBA reports<\/a> that the former first-round pick is still expected to play against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday. Kuminga, of course, was a member of the Warriors for his entire career prior to the trade that sent him to Atlanta at this year\u2019s trade deadline for center Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kuminga has dealt with multiple lower body injuries this season, particularly in his knee. The 23-year old forward has only appeared in six games with the Hawks since the deal, averaging 14.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.0 steal in 22.7 minutes per game on scorching hot 56.6%\/58.3%\/71.0% shooting. Despite Porzingis\u2019 continued battle with illnesses tied to POTS, he has appeared in as many games with the Dubs since the trade. Porzingis is averaging 16.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 2.0 blocks, and 1.0 steal in 21.8 minutes per game on 43.2%\/29.0%\/78.8%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kuminga\u2019s time with the Warriors got off to an exciting start. As a rookie, Kuminga was a solid member of the Dubs rotation, including some highlight-filled postseason performances in Golden State\u2019s path to the 2021-22 championship. However, as Dub Nation is well aware, the Warriors were never able to marry Kuminga\u2019s development with the team\u2019s short-term goals to build a contender around Steph Curry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Regardless of who you blame for Kuminga\u2019s disappointing tenure with the Dubs, his camp has made clear that they believe head coach Steve Kerr and other higher ups in the organization failed to take advantage of a budding superstar. It seems that he will have an opportunity to try and pay the Warriors back with some revenge on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While continued knee issues will keep Atlanta Hawks forward Jonathan Kuminga out for the team\u2019s matchup on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,5842,677,6,37651],"class_list":["post-669821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlantahawks","tag-basketball","tag-general","tag-hawks","tag-nba","tag-nba-news-and-rumors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116264530272206997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669821","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=669821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}