{"id":54213,"date":"2025-04-19T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=54213"},"modified":"2025-04-19T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:53:26","slug":"warriors-predicted-to-cut-ties-with-25-million-player-after-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=54213","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Predicted to Cut Ties With $25 Million Player After Postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2208410676-e1743801930333.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2208410676-e1743801930333.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2208410676-e1743801930333.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2208410676-e1743801930333.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Warriors Predicted to Cut Ties With $25 Million Player After Postseason\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors have reinvented themselves since the addition of Jimmy Butler ahead of the NBA trade deadline, but the franchise\u2019s course correction is likely to lead to a significant change or two this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, head coach Steve Kerr benched Jonathan Kuminga in the team\u2019s final game of the season against the Los Angeles Clippers. It was also the most important game of the year to date, as the loss determined Golden State\u2019s spot in the play-in tournament as the No. 7 seed, while the Clippers captured the fifth seed and earned an automatic bid into the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr decided to keep Kuminga benched again in the Dubs\u2019 play-in victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at Chase Center on Tuesday. The hyper-athletic forward and former No. 7 overall pick has been at odds with the coaching staff before. Now, after the Warriors have all but cast him aside as they reformulate their lineups heading into the playoffs, team insiders are predicting that Kuminga will play elsewhere in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe likely situation is [Jonathan Kuminga is] not going to be on the Warriors next season,\u201d Tim Kawakami of The San Francisco Standard told 95.7 The Game on Thursday, April 17. \u201cThings can change, but all things being equal, it was probably going to be a tricky situation for him to come back to the Warriors anyway. \u2026 I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s going to be galloping to sign a new deal with the Warriors given all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Jonathan Kuminga Saw Numbers Dip After Battling Injury All Season<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5326923\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=763\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg 4308w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=150,104 150w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=300,209 300w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=768,535 768w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=1024,713 1024w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=1536,1070 1536w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=2048,1426 2048w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=763,531 763w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=780,543 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=425,296 425w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=660,460 660w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=243,169 243w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=258,180 258w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kuminga_ec8137.jpg?resize=215,150 215w\" alt=\"Warriors Predicted to Cut Ties With $25 Million Player After Postseason\" width=\"763\" height=\"531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5326923\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5326923\">GettyJonathan Kuminga of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kuminga is playing on the final year of his $25 million rookie contract and will hit restricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State could have extended Kuminga last summer and had until October 21, 2024, to do so. But, despite months of negotiations, the two sides could never agree to terms.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga\u2019s value on the open market has no doubt taken a hit given Kerr\u2019s prioritizing of players like Moses Moody and Gary Payton II in the rotation over Kuminga, who started 46 of the 74 games he played last season. Kuminga battled injury issues this year and appeared in just 47 games, starting only 10 of those.<\/p>\n<p>The forward \u2014 who doesn\u2019t shoot particularly well from the mid-range or from behind the 3-point line, which is part of the issue with his playing time \u2014 took small steps back in minutes played (24.3), points per game (15.1) and rebounds per game (4.6) this season as compared to the last.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Steve Kerr Gave Blunt Explanation on Decision to Bench Jonathan Kuminga<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5310337\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2188472955-e1743165163955.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Warriors Predicted to Cut Ties With $25 Million Player After Postseason\" width=\"782\" height=\"458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5310337\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5310337\">Getty Jonathan Kuminga of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kerr hasn\u2019t been unfeeling during the situation with Kuminga. However, he recently acknowledged the tough realities of the team\u2019s new circumstances with Butler in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what happened here is pretty obvious. I\u2019ve talked about it. Jimmy Butler came in,\u201d Kerr said during an interview with 95.7 The Game on Thursday. \u201cWhen [Kuminga] was out, we traded for Jimmy, and they play the same position. Our whole team changed. We became an [isolation] team with Jimmy \u2014 movement with Steph [Curry] and [isolation] with Jimmy. Jimmy is one of the best players in the league, so it\u2019s not as simple as just saying, \u2018Oh okay, we\u2019ll just play them together.\u2019 Basketball doesn\u2019t work that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerr continued his explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe puzzle has to fit. We found a really good formula when [Kuminga] was injured and we got Jimmy. I think we went 18-2 or something right away,\u201d Kerr added. \u201cSo we found lineup combinations that have clicked, and we\u2019re winning and we have to stick with that. It\u2019s brutal for [Kuminga], it really is. He\u2019s a young player, he wants to play, and he\u2019s absolutely talented enough to play. He still may be a part of the equation in this series and maybe the next series after that. So we just have to keep plugging away and keep moving forward, and he\u2019s doing a good job of that. And I definitely feel for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group&#8217;s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Warriors News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State Warriors are expected to cut ties with forward Jonathan Kuminga following the conclusion of the NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54213","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>Warriors Predicted to Cut Ties With $25 Million Player After Postseason - 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=54213\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warriors Predicted to Cut Ties With $25 Million Player After Postseason - 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