Win-win! Kuminggado takes & of the Warriors hold the second year team option. The current best solution?
According to famous reporter Shams, player agents revealed that Kumingga agreed to return to the Golden State Warriors with a two-year (second-year team option) worth $48.5 million contract, ending a summer-long farce.
Considering the different interests and needs of both sides, this plan may be the best result for Warriors and Kumingga to achieve a win-win situation.
Standing from the Warriors' standpoint, it is obviously extremely stupid to lose a 2021 No. 7 show (Kuminga). They have let Wiseman (2020 second place) and Poole go, and then let Kumingga sign a one-year qualification offer leave in the summer as a complete free agent, and get nothing, which is completely hurting the team's interests.
From Kumingga's position, a first-round pick who just ended his rookie contract lost a lot of money after only one year of qualification quote. Although he can recover from freedom tomorrow summer, all dreams will be shattered once he is injured or does not perform as expected in the new season.
There are too many uncertain factors in the future. For example, Brunson chose to get less than 113 million last year to "put the money in order to save money." For a first-round pick who needs to support a family, the two-year contract of 48.5 million is actually not a small amount. This money is of great significance to Kumingjia's achievement of economic and personal independence. The
1+1 team option contract gives both sides the greatest convenience: the Warriors retained the dominance, and Kumingga got real economic benefits in the first year, and even if they don’t want to cooperate, they can start discussing transactions as soon as next January. Only then can Kumingga and the Warriors play the game are alive.
The Warriors are not regressing by tying the "team options" which is closely related to the future blueprint built by management around Curry's contract. In other words, the matter of principle.
Curry is 37 years old now, with 2 years and 121 million yuan left on his contract. He will become a full free agent after the end of the 2026-27 season. As the soul of the Warriors, all the operations of the Warriors revolve around Curry.
Similarly, Butler's contract also expires in the summer of 2027. This is a long-term layout that the Warriors traded in February this year and offered two years of early contract renewal. Butler and Curry's contract years remain the same, and the three-time playoffs in 2025, 2026 and 2027 were established as the window period for the championship around Curry and Butler's dual cores.
The contract for dream-chasing has 2 years left. The player option in the 2026-27 season is, once the player option is implemented in the summer of dream-chasing, the contracts of the three brothers will expire in the summer of 2027. The Warriors' 1+1 team option contract for Kumingga is also the same idea. Once the Warriors execute Kumingga's team options tomorrow summer, the contracts of Curry, Butler, Zhu Meng and Kumingga will expire at the latest in the summer of 2027.
Two years later, Curry is over 39 years old. The Warriors can free up their salary space to pursue super big fish such as Antetokounmpo and Jokic. In the future, Curry, Butler, and Zhu Menghunting will be easy to operate to keep the team.
In short, the next two seasons will be the window period for the championship in the Warriors Curry + Butler era, and the summer of 2027 will be the watershed for the Warriors to reorganize the lineup. In order to ensure the flexibility of the salary space in the summer of 2027, the Warriors must snatch the "team option" and not give in. The
1+1 team option is only a transitional plan for Kumingga. Exploring the transaction in January next year can also maximize its own interests.
First of all, please think about a question. Kumingga hates the Warriors. Do he want to stay with the Warriors?
Kumingga has played 22.0 minutes per game with the Warriors in the past four years, averaging 9.3 shots per game, and averaging 23.4% of the ball-use rate - regardless of playing time, firing rights, or ball rights, this is actually not enough for a first-round No. 7 pick.
There is no way. The Warriors are a championship team that wants to achieve results. Curry, Zhu Meng, Clay/Butler have eaten most of the ball rights. The Warriors can give Cuminga very limited ball rights and trial and error opportunities. The Warriors' past experience has also proved that they want to compete for the championship and cultivate new players' side missions, but it simply doesn't work.
Kumingga has fallen out of rotation after Butler's trade. He only played in G2, G3 and G7 in the first round of the playoffs this year, and only played 0 of 4 in 7 minutes in tiebreaks. If Butler and Curry had not suffered injuries one after another, Kumingga would not be in Cole's regular arrangement.
Kumingga does have the confidence to have a big contract. He averaged 20.8 points against the Timberwolves in the second round of the playoffs. He scored 11 of 18 shots, scored 30 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks. G3, G4, and G5 all played for more than 30 minutes and had 20+ in three consecutive games!
Kuminga's performance in the second round of the playoffs this year is obvious to all. With plenty of playing time and shooting rights, Kuuminga can hand over considerable data, and does show her talent for one-on-one ball-holding and hard-working skills, and has the potential to be able to carry the core output in a weak team. It's understandable that he wants a big contract.
Kuminga is an excellent young man, and the Warriors are also a team with a deep championship culture, but the two sides are incompatible, and there is no right or wrong in this farce.
The Warriors became famous for pick-and-roll passes and cuts and runs without the ball. The four championships of the Curry era are the most successful team's cultural business cards. Barnes, Durant, and Wiggins have all achieved success with the Warriors. In other words, small forwards who are highly capable of playing without the ball can easily integrate into the Warriors' system.
Kuminga's question is in Cole's words, "He sometimes doesn't understand our tactics." Kuminga's physical talent like a bull did play far exceed expectations in one-on-one, but his long-range shots are unstable. Kuminga, Butler, and Zhu Meng are not compatible with each other. Kuminga, as a forward who is good at holding the ball, in fact, the effect of Kuminga in the Warriors system is not as good as Hield, who can run without the ball. I believe everyone understands it..
The 1+1 team option two-year contract reached by Kumingga and the Warriors can actually be regarded as a one-year expiration contract for next season. The second-year team option gives the parent team Warriors and the future new next home the right to take control, which also creates the greatest convenience for the transaction between the two parties in January next year.
The Warriors' performance in the first round of the playoffs this year proves that the team does not need Kuminga to win. With Curry and Butler's absolutely healthy, Podjemsky and Moody's rotation priority are far higher than Kuminga because of the ball dealership - trading Kuminga for a more suitable team system in the game-winning puzzle, which is obviously what the Warriors hope for.
Kumingga also wants to leave the Warriors. After all, the Kings, Suns and others can clearly provide him with starting positions, core treatment and not short of money. The growth environment is particularly important to Kumingga today.
1+1 team options, Kumingga gets more money, and you can start applying for transactions as early as January next year. In the future, it is possible to go to the team you like and renew the big contract; the Warriors retain the dominance, and there is no risk of losing Kumingga in vain. The 1+1 team option contract is also easy to send Kumingga away as an expiration contract. This is the best solution at present, and it is affordable and win-win.
Chicken ribs, chicken ribs, it’s tasteless to eat, it’s a pity to throw away, this is also the root of the farce of the Warriors and Kumingga this summer!
source:7m cn vn