Jonathan Kuming ends the RFA contract in a $ 48m contract

The Golden State Warriors and limited free means forward Jonathan Kuminga have agreed Two-year, 48.5 million dollars in the contract containing the team of the NBA season 2026-27, on Wednesday, told the Sources of League on Wednesday.

As part of this Agreement, Kuminga will give up its inherent clause without understanding that he is the main trading candidate after which he is eligible to deal with 15. January.

Kouming and warriors were at a stall during the summer and warriors in relation to the structure as a new contract would look like. While Dubs wanted to deal with a team option, a 22-year-old and his camp had clearly said that the last year of his agreement would need to be a player option, or would accept the qualifying offer.

Finally, the warriors decided to end this feud and have the return of Kuminga for the season 2025-26, a year in which the organization expects to compete for the championship.

Kuminga and his agent, Aaron Turner Verus Management Team, was in a stare with warriors From 2024-25 seasons when young people first became eligible.

After being very far in the prolongation negotiations, Kuminga entered the last year in the last year of its deadlined job, hoping for its long-term valuable and potential looking for a timely offer from the team who abolished the seventh full.

At the beginning, the cumistry has established such as a team-best team of team next to Stephen Curri, but Spruin ankle who put it on paragraphs for 31 games forced the arm of the golden state.

General Manager Mike Dunleavi Jr. And the front office of warriors were aggressive with their approach to find the established superstar to evaporate Curri and so organization Six-time Jimmy Butler traded.

This trade immediately put the cuminghin future with the question of the organization, not just because Bumerer returned the cuming back to the bench unit, but also because He and the main coach of Steve Kerr is not always seen with eyes about his total role with the team.

Kuminga finished the regular season not to play in several games, and this was continued to enter the playoffs, where the warriors were defeated on Houston rockets in seven games in their first series. It wasn’t until Curri suffered a shin injury against Minnesota Timbervolves Kuminga got a chance to shine.

No curry on the floor, Kuminga was a prominent shooter of Dubs on the semifinals of the Western Conference, on average 24.3 points and 3.5 jumps per game while recording 55.4 percent of the floor in the last four series games.

Although it was obviously the highest activity of the team without steppe in court and butler, it became clear to enter the offseason that Kuminga wanted a change in the landscape, the sources said.

Entering a limited free agency, the warriors were Prepared to continue multiple games on the sign of the sign This would introduce yourself to Kuminga wanting a new beginning. However, the owner of Joe Lacob and the organization clearly made it that they were not ready to lose the cumine for nothing.

Minimum characteristics of signs and stores that came in the manner of the golden state, primarily from Sacramento Kings and Phoenik Suns, were considered enough good for warriors. As his stake continued, Kuminga continued to signal that he did not want a return and wanting to continue his career elsewhere.

Sacramento was aggressive in his search for Kuming, offering Malik Monk and protected the first round at 2030. years, sources said. Phoenix explored more scenarios with the golden country, including one who was around the veteran front of Roice O’Neale and draft drafts of the second round.

The warriors imprisoned without interest in the offer of kings. In addition to the concern for adding another guard, Dubsi did not want to take $ 60.5 million, which is owed through the season of 2027-28.

It is when the threat and idea of ​​accepting its qualification offer, sacrificing monetary commitment to obtain their freedom as a free agent, became a clear option of Kuminga and his agent. With warriors who do not want to be the conclusion of their long duty discussion, GM Mike Dunleavi Jr. He negotiated a new two-year structure for all parties to make pleasure.

This external, cumistry and its representation suggested that they believed its value on a new contract to pay about $ 30 million per season, sources said. It was the number that the warriors were never close and never had an intention to offer.

Instead, the organization considered that young people should accept 20 million dollars to 22 million to 22 million dollars in short-term agreement, because it offered a fair compensation for their contributions and potential. Kuminga was not satisfied with this initial offer and feel dishonest, resulting in his desire to change.

With the lack of space teams, the cap around the league worked with and the free agent market quickly dried in July, Kuminga The only option has become a return to DubsEspecially after the team ended all the negotiations on signs and trade with teams after the NBA summer league.

This situation drew the dark cloud during the summer, creating a dark cloud that thanked the organization.

Al Horford, De’Anthoni Melton, and Gary Paiton II, only officially agreed to their free agents dealing with warriors for the financial situation of the team while waiting for Kuminga. Payton officially signed the minimum contract, but Horford and Melton cannot sign their contracts and officially finalize them to Kumingo.

Despite this situation that is dragged in September, Kuminga is officially with warriors and will begin the season 2025-26 on its Roster with a new two-year contract.

The future of Jonathan Kuminga with warriors

For years, the warriors reduced the possibilities for the Kumingon Trade for a High level, proven talents.

Annobi, Lauri Markanen, and Paul George were among the All-Star Talenta Golden State who held a wide trade in the last few seasons, but any player would cost the organization of Kuminga.

At that time, including the last exposing, Warriors were not willing to include young forward in trade dialogue You are as I light and many in the organization believed that the future was a franchise. Now, the Golden State probably wants to return to time and make one of these stores after seeing his relationship with the cumining breaking up this exposing.

Kuminga wanted to leave the warriors of this off-season, the sources said. He did not retain the desire to return, and his party held a great belief that a sign of sign and trade in this summer will be reached.

Finally, no trade values ​​materialized for a golden state, leading cuming at only two trails: accepting his qualifying offer or one of the multiple contractual proposals that twisted different options in the last year.

Warriors held a company on her offer of Kumingi, said sources and believed that she performed all the more sense to all parties to accept a contract with a team option. Using a cumming signaling that it would not accept such a proposal, the golden state has changed their proposal to finally finish the agreement.

Now, the warriors can return the cuminge as a young, athletic focal point in its list and still have the opportunity to explore trade avenues with its character capacity.

While Kuminga had contracts of contracts to accept as an unlimited freely of kings and suns, the only way to obtain these bids was through sign and trade. With warriors who excludes the door of these occasions, Kuminga has become frustrated and do not want to negotiate further, sources said.

The threat to accepting his qualification offer became a real scenario with his hasty indentation late in the summer. This would not be ideal for warriors, because they would lose all the levers to negotiate the Kumingi trade during the 2025-26 season, and its return to such an agreement would create a very toxic environment in the locker room.

The golden state has decided that it is in the best interest Modify the original two-year proposal of the COMUMINGING Contractadding more money to compensate the option of the Kuminga team and his camp did not want.

Now, he and warriors have a $ 48.5 million agreement with a team option that allows it to become a free agent next summer something that has already been signaled during negotiations.

This does not mean that the cumingy time with warriors will end after this season, because the two sides remain optimistic about its role and prospects for the 2025-26 season. It is possible that the two sides of the following summer come for a long-term understanding after several months of delay this year.

Originally warriors hoped to sign Kuminga at a two-year contract of $ 45 million, which contained a team option and would give forward a clause without a trade that would be given as a result of CBA and its limited free agency. In no time was the cumistry ready to sign this offer, sources said.

Kuminga is now returning to Dubs on a redundant two-year contract with understanding that he could trade before trade in February and before becoming a free agent of the next off-season. It is in the end why Kuminga decided to accept more money on a new contract, not to take over its qualifying offer.

What seems to be the role of Kuminga as entry in the 2025-26 season is a massive mystery. More importantly, as he is His teammates and veteran leaders The team will play a direct role in the team of the team during the first half of the new year.

However, a warrior star Stephen Curry made it clear In Monday, he and the organization expect the organization that Kuminga will be ready to give it all the return, regardless of what happened in the negotiations of the contract.

“You have a guy trying to understand your situation. Respect for that process and it will be played,” Curri said. “When it is here, ready to work, we expect it to close it to do what needs to help us win.

“What we do as players and go out there and wipe – it always descends, no matter how you get there.”

Behind the scenes, Curri, Draimond Green, and Jimmy Butler were Proponents for the organization that brings KumingaSources said. Each of the three stars held discussions with the organization in August of the Agreement of Standby to clearly respond to what is happening to their sought-by signatures of the free agent.

Green was a strong voice in the cornger corner behind the scenes.

After a long, drama filled with the separation of cumming and warriors, one of the largest mystery outside the season in the free agent market was finally resolved. Kuminga returned with Dubs for the NBA season 2025-26 after accepting the new two years, $ 48.5 million of the contract.