Warriors seek trade solution for benched Jonathan Kuminga

Jonathan Kuminga has asked retired of Golden State. The fifth-year guardant demanded a commercialized distant from the Golden State Warriors, reports ESPN, connected the archetypal time helium became eligible to beryllium moved. He could not beryllium traded until Thursday nether the declaration helium signed this summer. The commercialized deadline is Feb. 5.

From aboriginal starter to zero minutes

Kuminga started the archetypal 12 games, and manager Steve Kerr called him a unafraid starter aft a blistery start. Struggles led to a demotion, and Kuminga has not played successful the Warriors’ past 13 games. He besides ruled himself retired with backmost soreness an hr earlier the Jan. 2 crippled against the Thunder, erstwhile Kerr said helium planned to usage him portion the starters rested.

"I'm disappointed for him that things didn't proceed to spell the mode they did the archetypal mates of weeks," Kerr said recently.

Team sources said Kuminga, Kerr and veterans watching a $22.5 cardinal subordinate beryllium portion the squad is stuck successful a “mediocre” state, arsenic Jimmy Butler called it, spot a commercialized arsenic the champion resolution.

A declaration designed for the deadline

Golden State re-signed Kuminga connected a two-year, $46.8 cardinal woody with a squad enactment successful twelvemonth 2 aft contentious negotiations. League sources said Kuminga felt forced into that structure, further straining his narration with management, but it besides gave the Warriors a tradeable deal.

General manager Mike Dunleavy has canvassed the marketplace for weeks. The Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks are among the teams showing interest, league sources said. Kuminga’s $24.3 cardinal squad enactment for adjacent play allows the declaration to beryllium treated arsenic expiring if the enactment is declined.

League sources said the Warriors privation expiring wealth backmost and person resisted taking connected semipermanent deals. That is simply a snag with Sacramento due to the fact that Golden State does not privation the 3 years and $60.4 cardinal near connected Malik Monk’s contract, though Keon Ellis has been mentioned arsenic a imaginable sweetener.

Rival executives said they judge the Warriors’ enactment that a woody is not guaranteed is simply a bluff.