{"id":824663,"date":"2026-08-31T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/824663\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:57:14","slug":"jonathan-kumingas-agent-has-his-embarrassing-comments-resurface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/824663\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga’s agent has his embarrassing comments resurface"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans have unearthed an old article that does not exactly flatter Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>\u2019s agent, Aaron Turner.<\/p>\n

Kuminga signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a><\/a> on Wednesday for a modest sum of $13 million over two seasons. The deal was a significant pay cut for Kuminga, who had previously turned down significantly larger offers from the Golden State Warriors<\/a> and Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several fans pinned the blame on Turner, claiming Kuminga should fire him<\/a> for what they believed has been poor professional advice. <\/p>\n

Turner\u2019s reputation took another hit this past week, as his comments from an October 2025 article resurfaced. In a piece by the San Francisco Standard\u2019s Danny Emerman, the veteran agent defended his negotiating tactics<\/a>, basically telling his critics to wait a year before casting any judgment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what\u2019s funny to me,\u201d Turner told Emerman 10 months ago. \u201cEverybody\u2019s like, \u2018Aaron f\u2014ed up.\u2019 I\u2019m like, hold on. Did I fumble something? Because fumbling would mean like next year, if JK is making $10 million a year, you could say I fumbled by not taking [three years for $75 million]. You can\u2019t say I fumbled because I didn\u2019t fumble anything yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made a choice. Now, if I turned down two years, $45million, and two weeks later got two weeks, $40million, I fumbled, right? I went backward. Most people, if you had to negotiate for two more weeks to make a couple million dollars more, wouldn\u2019t you do that? Isn\u2019t that my job?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kuminga ended up taking a deal for significantly less than $10 million, which is a clear \u201cfumble\u201d by Turner\u2019s own standards.<\/p>\n

In all fairness to Turner, he and his client were in an unusual situation with the Warriors<\/a> as they negotiated a contract last season. Kuminga opted to bet on himself via a shorter deal with less guaranteed money and lost.<\/p>\n

Kuminga and Turner doubled down this season by signing for an even smaller amount with an eye toward a bigger payday next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have unearthed an old article that does not exactly flatter Jonathan Kuminga\u2019s agent, Aaron Turner. Kuminga signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[28221,7,479,164,4025,4024,867,6,255],"class_list":["post-824663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golden-state-warriors","tag-aaron-turner","tag-basketball","tag-golden-state","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-goldenstate","tag-goldenstatewarriors","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-nba","tag-warriors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117189059765291186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824663","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=824663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}