04-15-2025, 10:45 PM
(04-15-2025, 09:49 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I haven’t been following closely but I just read that Kuminga has been out of GS rotation since coming back from injury. The reason is him, draymond and Butler have limited spacing. Sound familiar.
kuminga is a restricted free agent this summer. With only a few teams with cap space, both may need each other this summer. The player to secure a payday and GS to keep an asset to trade.
Kuminga may just walk. He's a good test case for the new NBA economics. Hard to figure.
GS will be about 35M below Apron 2 with 3 players to re-sign: Payton, Looney, and Kuminga. They can probably do the other 2 (UFA) at about 9-10M each.
JK has some weird issues. He has battled injuries recently. While his usage is high, his counting numbers are meh. More significant is his RFA contract situation, where it will take a 23M QO offer for GS to make him restricted. (If a player signs a way-inflated QO, it's a disaster, as you get him for that one overpaid year with a no-trade restriction, and then he's UFA the next summer.) But signing him to a bigger deal, or sending him out in a SNT (with equivalent salary coming back, of course), plants them well over Apron 2.
I don't see any fit in Dallas. I wonder where he might fit.