The Golden State Warriors have yet to resolve the Jonathan Kuminga saga, and the 22-year-old swingman reportedly doesn’t want to return to the team next season.
However, Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob feels otherwise. According to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, Lacob sees Kuminga as a building block to the franchise’s future, so he wants to keep him for as long as possible.
“I do think the Warriors see him (Kuminga) as somebody who’s, if he wants to call it, a building block, I don’t know if I would call it that, but somebody they want around for a long time, because they have 35-year-olds on their team,” Shelburne reported on NBA Today.
“I know the owner, Joe Lacob, has told him this. He loves Jonathan Kuminga. He is the reason that they’ve never included him in trades, because they see the potential in him,” he added.
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Golden State Warriors reporter Ron Kroichick claims that Jonathan Kuminga considers himself on par with Detroit Pistons’ Cade Cunningham and Toronto Raptors’ Scottie Barnes.
“Five of the six players selected ahead of Jonathan Kuminga in the 2021 NBA draft, and the one taken directly behind him, already got their bag,” Kroichick wrote.
“He apparently thinks he’s at the Cade Cunningham–Scottie Barnes level, where he should get that type of contract. It’s really a quandary. I think it’s bad for the Warriors and bad for him,” he added.
