Kuminga’s teammates backed him publicly to the end but expressed their annoyances about the never-ending nature of the saga. Butler took Kuminga under his wing and Kuminga left viewing him as a genuine mentor, sources said, with Butler voicing to some that he felt there was an organizational double standard in the way Kuminga was treated compared with others.

After 4 years of bs, trust becomes irreparable I guess. Both sides look bad here

His agent is a cancer on the nba. Dude is an idiot and it baffles me that he still has clients.

Kuminga had no issues playing the last 2 games (30 points in 30 minutes with the highest plus minus btw) and sat out the end when he got injured. What’s the point of playing 3 mop-up duty opportunities with a rotation he’s never been with and hurt his trade value further?

Anyone who actually follow the Warriors carefully know Steve Kerr is full of shit. This guy had Kuminga benched behind Anthony Lamb and Chiozza because he insisted he wanted the team to play at a championship caliber level. Except the best our team was doing was going into game 7 of round 1 playoffs with Steph Curry carrying most of the team.

You’re right man Moody and Kuminga are secret all stars that Kerr just decided to be a big meanie to because he suddenly decided he doesn’t like winning NBA games anymore and isn’t going to put the best talent forward during the last few years of Steph’s career. Makes sense!

This is “understood” only if you selectively watch highlights lmao.

Watch the actual games and you see a guy who routinely neglects rebounding/boxing out, misses defensive assignments, and gums up the offense with poor spacing and turnovers. But hey every five games he can get hot with iso scoring so totally worth the downsides right?

JK was given chances, he was in his 5th year here & numbers showed he was a high usage & low efficiency player. That is why they wanted the ball to go to the point guard.

This organization and coaching staff are incredibly incompetent. Kuminga was genuinely our 2nd best scorer for long stretches before Butler got here, and even then he often performed better than Butler. He’s the only one with real shot creation off the bench. Steve Kerr thinks you can move the ball around in a circle and produce nba level offense. There’s been so many games where Kuminga would come in, build a lead with huge plus minus, then get benched in the entire 4th quarter and Warrior loses. Same thing with Moody. If people understood this they’d know Kuminga’s anger was 100% justified. But people defer to Steve Kerr because he’s got rings on each finger even though it is becoming more and more obvious how hard carried he was.

“I remember Kerr told JK he wouldn’t be playing against the Blazers last season. The Warriors were getting blasted so Kerr put in JK and he led the comeback win. the next game JK only got 10 minutes. To me it seems personal.”

“Kuminga scored 15 in the first half against the Nuggets Jan 2024. Warriors had a 20 pt lead when he sat. Kerr didn’t put him back into the game as a 20 point lead evaporated in the last 5 minutes and they lost.”

“Kuminga finally checked into the game for the first time with 4:45 left in the 3rd quarter. He hadn’t even been in coach Steve Kerr’s pregame against portland, not expected to be part of the rotation… ” (Steve Kerr says he was out of the rotation just because it’s hard to play 10 guys LOL)

What you said is how most non Warriors fan sees the situation. As you see, most Warriors fans don’t really care about being fake r or reasonable towards him.

Why get the ball to Steph when you can work on developing Kuminga into being someone that’s a little better than Kuminga?

If you read the article I think Lacob is the real loser here. His pet project meddling in basketball operations is why kuminga was drafted and held for so long. Shameful owner. Jerry Jones would be proud

It’s not Kerrs job to trade players. His job is to put out whatever lineup he thinks can win them the most games and that’s making the most of the warriors/stephs style of ball, and not catering to kuminga ball

Sure, because the action in Denver always initiates with Murray and in Milwaukee always with Ryan Rollins

When you have a guy who was easily our best scorer in the timberwolves series with zero spacing and has averaged 30 points in 30 min (with team highest plus minus) the last 2 games he was shoved back into due to team injuries, you would think he would play a more integral part of a 2nd unit offense instead of getting the ball to a Spencer/ Pod who have zero shot creation abilities.