{"id":61601,"date":"2025-08-12T03:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61601\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:59:10","slug":"free-agent-rumors-kuminga-horford-westbrook-grimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61601\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Agent Rumors: Kuminga, Horford, Westbrook, Grimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been no meaningful movement in any direction on the Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> front in the past couple weeks, per Anthony Slater of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having returned to his offseason base of Miami after a recent trip to his home country \u2013 the Democratic Republic of the Congo \u2013 the restricted free agent forward remains underwhelmed by the Warriors\u2018 two-year, $45MM offer that includes a second-year team option (and a request that he waive his implicit no-trade clause).<\/p>\n

With no guaranteed money beyond year one, a trade-friendly salary, and no ability for Kuminga to have any say in a mid-season trade destination, the structure of the proposal is too team-friendly for Kuminga\u2019s liking, Slater explains. Sources tell ESPN that the 22-year-old\u2019s priority has been to find a contract that positions him to be a long-term building block for either the Warriors or another club. A short-term deal that essentially sets him up to be traded runs counter to that goal.<\/p>\n

Kuminga\u2019s camp pitched a three-year, $82MM contract that the Warriors turned down, according to Slater, who adds that the forward has told people close to him that the idea of signing his one-year, $8MM qualifying offer and reaching unrestricted free agency in 2026 appeals more to him than accepting Golden State\u2019s one-plus-one proposal.<\/p>\n

Here are a few more rumors on some of the top unsigned free agents:<\/p>\n

Even though Al Horford<\/a> has had to wait for resolution on the Kuminga situation and has mulled the idea of retirement, the Warriors seem to be operating as if the 39-year-old big man is a firm part of their plans for 2025\/26, Slater writes. The idea would be to slot Horford in as their starting center to help reduce Draymond Green<\/a>\u2018s regular season workload, according to Slater, though he notes that Horford\u2019s minutes would have to be carefully managed as well.
\nLeague sources consider the Kings to be the most likely landing spot for free agent point guard Russell Westbrook<\/a>, ESPN\u2019s Tim MacMahon<\/a> reports within the same story. Multiple<\/a> reports<\/a> earlier this summer indicated that there may not be room in Sacramento\u2019s backcourt for Westbrook unless the team were to trade Malik Monk<\/a> or Devin Carter<\/a>, but the former MVP is still being linked to the Kings even with those two guards still on the roster.
\nThe Sixers continue to project confidence that they\u2019ll re-sign restricted free agent guard Quentin Grimes<\/a>, says Jake Fischer of The Stein Line<\/a> (Substack link). While it\u2019s not out of the question that Grimes could accept his $8.7MM qualifying offer, Fischer believes the two sides will work out a more mutually beneficial deal that begins at a higher salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been no meaningful movement in any direction on the Jonathan Kuminga front in the past couple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[5551,64,63,726,7901,7227,16102,10113,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-61601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-draymond-green","13":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","14":"tag-quentin-grimes","15":"tag-russell-westbrook","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61601","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=61601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}