{"id":53780,"date":"2025-04-17T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=53780"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:01:56","slug":"draymond-green-delivers-bold-take-on-jonathan-kumingas-future-after-play-in-benching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=53780","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green Delivers Bold Take on Jonathan Kuminga\u2019s Future After Play-In Benching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.nba.com\/teams\/uploads\/sites\/1610612744\/2025\/01\/Jonathan-Kuminga-Draymond-Green.png\" alt=\"C\u1eadp nh\u1eadt ch\u1ea5n th\u01b0\u01a1ng c\u1ee7a Draymond Green v\u00e0 Jonathan Kuminga \u2013 27\/1\/25 | Golden State Warriors\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kuminga may have fallen out of the Warriors&#8217; rotation, but Draymond Green still believes the young forward will be a factor as Golden State shifts its focus to the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga has logged back-to-back DNPs during arguably the Warriors&#8217; most important games of the season. He didn&#8217;t play in a 124-119 loss to the Clippers on April 13, which bumped the Warriors into the Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you get to these tight games, you tighten up your rotation and you play your guys, and you go for it,&#8221; Kerr said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Kuminga was nowhere to be found on Tuesday during the Warriors 121-116 play-in victory against the Memphis Grizzlies. Anthony Slater of The Athletic reported on X during the game that Kuminga was &#8220;out of the scripted Warriors rotation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga averaged 15.3 points and 4.6 rebounds in 24.3 minutes per game this season. Green has been a vocal supporter of Kuminga and sees him playing a role in the team&#8217;s first-round matchup against the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll contribute,&#8221; Green said. &#8220;He&#8217;s great, getting his work in. That&#8217;s the best thing you can do in that situation. He&#8217;ll be meaningful for us in the next series. I have zero doubt about that. The challenge for him is to stay mentally engaged, as is for anyone in that situation. But I have zero doubt in my mind he&#8217;s going to help us in that series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors opened as the favorite in their series with the No. 2 seeded Rockets, per FanDuel Sportsbook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jonathan Kuminga may have fallen out of the Warriors&#8217; rotation, but Draymond Green still believes the young forward will be a factor as Golden State shifts&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Draymond Green Delivers Bold Take on Jonathan Kuminga\u2019s Future After Play-In Benching - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=53780\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Draymond Green Delivers Bold Take on Jonathan Kuminga\u2019s Future After Play-In Benching - News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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