{"id":152892,"date":"2025-07-30T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=152892"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:19:20","slug":"kings-up-ante-warriors-jonathan-kuminga-sign-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/07\/30\/kings-up-ante-warriors-jonathan-kuminga-sign-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings Up The Ante For Warriors-Jonathan Kuminga Sign &#038; Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Golden State Warriors want restricted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuminjo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> to bend knee, he&#8217;s betting on himself this offseason. As a result, he&#8217;s eschewed all opportunities to return to The Bay on their terms. In fact, at this point, it&#8217;s starting to sound as if he wants to get out of town by any means necessary. Ironically, that could lead to the 22-year-old combo forward joining a franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/07\/spurs-deaaon-fox-critical-dysfunctional-kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">that&#8217;s even more dysfunctional<\/a> than the Warriors have been these past two seasons: the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<h2>Kings Up The Ante For Warriors-Jonathan Kuminga Sign &amp; Trade<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to go,&#8221; Andscape&#8217;s Marc J. Spears tells ESPN colleagues Malika Andrews and Kendrick Perkins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marc Spears says Kuminga &#8220;wants to go&#8221; to Sacramento:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Kings are offering a starting spot. He&#8217;s talked on a zoom call with Scott Perry, BJ Armstrong and also with Doug Christie. He&#8217;s in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said the Suns have offered:<\/p>\n<p>Royce O&#8217;Neale<br \/>\nNick Richards<br \/>\n4 2nd round picks <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GithAY7Yte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GithAY7Yte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oh No He Didn&#8217;t (@ohnohedidnt24) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/1950637785779773790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to go and the Kings are offering a starting spot (at) power forward next to Keegan Murray, next to (Domantas) Sabonis. He&#8217;s talked on a Zoom call with (general manager) Scott Perry, (assistant general manager) BJ Armstong, and also with their head coach (Doug Christie). So he&#8217;s in.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to go there&#8230; but, I think that first (round pick), the Warriors don&#8217;t like the first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A previous report mentioned that Kuminga had <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/07\/26\/what-makes-jonathan-kuminga-trade-so-complicated\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">met with Sacramento&#8217;s decision-makers<\/a>. However, it was believed that the Kings had offered the Warriors a package of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cartede02.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devin Carter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/saricda01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dario Saric<\/a> and a <em>second-round pick<\/em>. Perhaps that really <em>was<\/em> the proposed package at the time. Nevertheless, the intel Spears received makes Golden State&#8217;s decision to dig in their heels a real head-scratcher.<\/p>\n<h3>Letting Down Their Guard?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The Warriors have been defiant,&#8221; ESPN senior insider Shams Charania tells Andrews in a separate segment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On Jonathan Kuminga declining the Warriors&#8217; free agent offers and what comes next for NBA Today with <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malika_andrews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@malika_andrews<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@anthonyVslater<\/a>: <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d4I9qmgB2k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/d4I9qmgB2k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1950643239255744957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;They want a good player. They also want an unprotected first-round pick &#8212; a good first-round pick. The Sacramento Kings, I&#8217;m told, have actually offered a first-round pick in those conversations. It&#8217;s been a conditional first-round pick, as well as a potential rotation player&#8230; but the Warriors wanted the Sacramento Kings to give an unprotected fully (sic) first-round pick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kings have first-round picks available in each of the next five drafts, including two 2027 first-rounders (h\/t ESPN). With that in mind, they can probably afford to give Golden State one that&#8217;s unconditional. Yet, the interest Kuminga has in signing with them combined with his disinterest in remaining with the Warriors and his ability to become an unrestricted free agent next year <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/07\/30\/explaining-warriors-jonathan-kuminga-rfa-stalemate\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">doesn&#8217;t give them much incentive<\/a> to do so.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s particularly true with the Phoenix Suns, who are also hot on Kuminga&#8217;s trail, not having a tradable first-round pick. Consequently, the Suns have offered four second-round picks, according to Spears. Notably, ESPN posted a graphic showing that Phoenix only has three tradable second-rounders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"modal-image-setImageMetadata\">\n<p class=\"ng-binding\">\u00a9 Ed Szczepanski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Golden State Warriors want restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga to bend knee, he&#8217;s betting on himself this offseason. As a result, he&#8217;s eschewed all opportunities to return to The Bay on their terms. In fact, at this point, it&#8217;s starting to sound as if he wants to get out of town by any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":152911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1608,2,25,62,3,28,4721],"tags":[4297,297,4557,4774],"class_list":["post-152892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kings","category-basketball","category-featured","category-warriors","category-nba","category-news","category-suns","category-trade-rumors","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-offseason","tag-rumors"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152913,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152892\/revisions\/152913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}