{"id":41652,"date":"2025-08-04T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41652\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:10:07","slug":"steins-latest-kuminga-doncic-vucevic-fox-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41652\/","title":{"rendered":"Stein’s Latest: Kuminga, Doncic, Vucevic, Fox, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>\u2018s restricted free agent negotiations with the Warriors continue to be one of the top lingering storylines of the NBA offseason. Following up on recent reports<\/a> indicating that Kuminga has turned down a two-year, $45MM offer with a team option on the second year, Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Substack link<\/a>) notes that the team\u2019s request for the forward to waive his implicit no-trade clause is part of the holdup.<\/p>\n

A player who re-signs with his previous team on a one-year contract or a two-year deal with a second-year option gets the right to veto trades for the rest of the season, but that right can be waived as part of the contract agreement. Jaxson Hayes<\/a>, Taurean Prince<\/a>, and Jeff Green<\/a> are among several players who have waived their veto rights<\/a> when re-signing with their respective teams this summer.<\/p>\n

A player in that position who consents to a trade \u2013 either by waiving his veto rights when he signs or by eventually approving an in-season trade \u2013 would lose any form of Bird rights<\/a> as part of the deal and would have Non-Bird rights<\/a> at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Aside from the contract negotiations, Stein writes that while Kuminga has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is still not expected to play in FIBA\u2019s AfroBasket tournament this summer. No official decision has been announced yet, but it\u2019s unlikely that Kuminga would suit up for the Congolese team if his contract situation remains unresolved.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from Stein:<\/p>\n

Much has been made about Luka Doncic<\/a>\u2018s three-year max extension<\/a> with the Lakers and what it means for him and the team\u2019s future, but Stein points out an important detail regarding the timeline of the deal. The contract would allow Doncic to become an unrestricted free agent in 2028 when he has more than eight years of NBA service and four seasons with his current team, which means he would be eligible for a no-trade clause if he were to wait until \u201928 free agency to sign a new contract with the Lakers. Stein writes that while Doncic will have technically played three-and-a-half years with the Lakers, he\u2019d still meet the no-trade criteria because he would have finished four seasons with the Lakers, even if he started the first one in Dallas.
\nWhile the offseason buyout market has been particularly active this offseason, Stein cautions fans not to expect Bulls center Nikola Vucevic<\/a> to join the likes of Bradley Beal<\/a> and Damian Lillard<\/a> this summer. He writes that unless a trade materializes in the next couple of months, Vucevic will very likely begin next season in Chicago. There has been speculation<\/a> that the veteran big man could be a prime mid-season buyout candidate if no deal occurs by February\u2019s trade deadline.
\nSpurs guard\u00a0De\u2019Aaron Fox<\/a> became eligible on Sunday for a three- or four-year extension that would look like the one Doncic signed in L.A. However, Stein notes that with the rise of reigning Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle<\/a> and the addition of Dylan Harper<\/a> with the No. 2 overall pick, there are questions league-wide about whether such a max deal is an automatic decision for San Antonio.
\nKevin Love<\/a> is actively exploring landing spots in the case of a potential buyout from the Jazz after landing in Utah as a part of the Heat\u2019s trade<\/a> for Norman Powell<\/a>, though Stein doesn\u2019t name any possible suitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga\u2018s restricted free agent negotiations with the Warriors continue to be one of the top lingering storylines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,12835,7227,32222,11473,34713,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-41652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-deaaron-fox","12":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","13":"tag-kevin-love","14":"tag-luka-doncic","15":"tag-nikola-vucevic","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}