courtesy of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>, starting with the question of whether Golden State is where he wanted to be (after spending part of the summer searching for a sign-and-trade). <\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m here now. \u201cThat\u2019s everybody\u2019s goal, to be somewhere for longer. You never know your future … It\u2019s a business. At the end of the day all that matters is we got it done and I\u2019m excited to be here …<\/p>\n
\u201cHelping us win. Finding a way to help us win on both ends. Defense, offense, find a way to be a piece that\u2019s going to help us win games and hopefully a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kuminga likely will be Steve Kerr\u2019s sixth man this season, because Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler have to start and they take Kuminga\u2019s position on the court (plus that\u2019s too many non-shooters to play together in the modern NBA). That said, if the Warriors are going to shop Kuminga and look to trade him at next February\u2019s deadline \u2014 and they are \u2014 then Steve Kerr has to showcase Kuminga at points in the first part of the season. The challenge is that Kuminga is a ball-in-his-hands, head-down, drive-to-the-paint style player in a Warriors system that emphasizes ball movement, quick decisions, and moving off the ball. Kuminga is not a natural fit for how Kerr wants to play, which has led to the much-discussed tension between the two. <\/p>\n
It may not have been what he wanted, but Kuminga taking the two-year, $46.8 million offer was the right move. Kuminga and his agent did what they were supposed to do \u2014 everything they could to get a better offer, publicly and privately \u2014 but in the end, accepting an offer paying him $22.5 million this year rather than the $8 million qualifying offer is just smart for a player who has never made more than $7.6 million in a season. This year\u2019s salary alone nearly doubles Kuminga\u2019s career earnings, it would have been a mistake to leave that money on the table.<\/p>\n
If Kuminga wants to land in a better spot where he will be a more featured player, he\u2019s going to have to show out to start this season. At least to start, he is saying all the right things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the end, Kuminga and his agent settled. They had very publicly stated for months that they would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-199816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}