{"id":49949,"date":"2025-08-07T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49949\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:34:11","slug":"pacific-notes-kuminga-kings-suns-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49949\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Kuminga, Kings, Suns, Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Warriors do not want to include the contracts of either Moses Moody<\/a> or Buddy Hield<\/a> as part of a possible Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> sign-and-trade with the Kings, confirms Sam Amick of The Athletic<\/a> in a new report. That essentially stalls the deal indefinitely, as one of those players would need to be part of the offing.<\/p>\n

For now, Golden State expects Kuminga to return to the team for 2025\/26. Still, a lot of time is left between now and Kuminga\u2019s October 1 qualifying deadline. Other possible destinations could materialize.<\/p>\n

The 6\u20198\u2033 vet was hurt for much of the 2024\/25, but when Kuminga did play he exhibited some appetizing athleticism and scoring touch. In 47 healthy games, Kuminga averaged 15.3 PPG, 4.6 RPG, and 2.2 APG.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more out of the Pacific Division:<\/p>\n

There could be mutual interest between the Warriors and Suns regarding a Kuminga sign-and-trade, writes Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic<\/a>. Rankin cautions, however, that an agreement could still be a long shot. Per Rankin, the 22-year-old sees Phoenix as being the kind of team where he\u2019d get to enjoy a major, consistent role alongside All-Star guard Devin Booker<\/a>. The Suns have talked to Booker\u2019s agent, Aaron Turner, but the Warriors are apparently not interested in a Phoenix return package.
\nNew Suns trade acquisition Jalen Green<\/a>\u2018s backcourt fit with Booker could use some work. Gerald Bourgeut of PHNX Sports<\/a> breaks down three areas of his game that the former No. 2 overall pick needs to improve for the Booker tandem to succeed. Last year on the 52-30 Rockets, Green averaged a Houston-most 21.0 points and 3.4 dimes a night. He has intriguing upside as a supplemental creator and scorer next to Green.
\nIn case you missed it, Lakers All-Star forward LeBron James<\/a> has been amenable<\/a> to L.A.\u2019s new pivot to focusing its team-building around the younger Luka Doncic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors do not want to include the contracts of either Moses Moody or Buddy Hield as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,42292,7224,5669,7227,16479,85],"class_list":["post-49949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-buddy-hield","tag-devin-booker","tag-jalen-green","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-moses-moody","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49949","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=49949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}