{"id":820986,"date":"2026-08-26T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:15:36","slug":"jonathan-kuminga-leaning-lakers-over-timberwolves-as-decision-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820986\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga leaning Lakers over Timberwolves as decision nears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report, <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/6549\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuminga<\/a>&#8216;s decision is coming soon now that it has come down to two teams, with the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/la-lakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a> seemingly having the edge over the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/minnesota\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timberwolves<\/a>. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Comes down to Minnesota or Los Angeles,&quot; Fischer said. &quot;Kuminga, I think, has seemed to prefer going to the Lakers. They have the most opportunity to negotiate there.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;Comes down to Minnesota or Los Angeles,\\&quot; Fischer said. \\&quot;Kuminga, I think, has seemed to prefer going to the Lakers. They have the most opportunity to negotiate there.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/jonathan-kuminga-lakers-decision-could-be-coming-sooner-than-expected\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Comes down to Minnesota or Los Angeles,&#8221; Fischer said. &#8220;Kuminga, I think, has seemed to prefer going to the Lakers. They have the most opportunity to negotiate there.<\/a> \u2026 &#8220;That&#8217;s going to come to some type of conclusion here soon. I thought it could have happened last week, but I still have been told nothing to suggest that Kuminga&#8217;s situation is not coming down to the Lakers or the Timberwolves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report, Kuminga&#8216;s decision is coming soon now that it has come down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,6796,3553,6676,300,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":["post-820986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-basketball","tag-bleacher-report","tag-jake-fischer","tag-kuminga","tag-lakers","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117161526765533093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820986","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=820986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}