2025-26 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46210422/inside-warriors-stalemate-jonathan-kuminga

again back to hoops stuff, supposedly gs upped their offer to kuminga to 3/75 but are still insisting on a team option on the last year, which kuminga is saying no to. his folks countered with a one-year deal with no options at a higher rater than the QO, if i read the article correctly. but gs didn't want that for some reason (this seems like the win/win to me).


one complicating factor has been that the warriors basically made FA promises to horford and melton and gpII, and kuminga can't sign for more than 22.8 starting and still have those deals work or something. warriors got in over their head in several ways here, imo.

i wonder how much lacob meddling caused this problem, too. i guess it's his team, but i think if he'd have let his management do their jobs, this would have been resolved last year with a sensible kuminga trade. it's just hard to imagine a path forward in which either side is happy with him in a gs uniform this year. if he signs the QO, kerr has no real reason to feature him or focus on him, and at this point any contract is just one that's intended to be traded. but trading partners know that, too.

 

Man.7M is not some big endorsement in the first place. What are you talking about? For a player of his caliber, that's not some red flag.

Now you are counting this dude's pockets, and trying to determine how much money he should make on endorsements? On top of that, you want to dictate the amount of money, Ballmer invests too? I mean damn..you reaching a bit much, in order to make this fit your conspiracy theory aren't you?

So your idea is, the grand scheme was to blow 62M as a cover, in order to fund the 28M deal? But wait..Then Ballmer ups and decides, to blow the whistle on them, because they stiffed his boy out of the last 7M?

Hell..following your logic, anyone you deem unworthy, of the amount of their endorsement deal, is probably circumventing the salary cap! It's a slam dunk if anyone on those lists I posted, has an owner that invested in any company, they have an endorsement deal with.

Lol..you are outrageous dude

 

i often wonder if you read your own links. 7m is huge...for kawhi leonard...according to your link. it's small for lebron james or steph curry.

there's no reaching required to generate a theory of why a player is getting a no-show endorsement deal that requires employment with a single team from a sham company with an investor who owns that player's team. none. it's sitting in your lap.

well, it was actually a 48 million dollar deal. i mean, if ballmer believed the company was legit--as you swear he did--then those stock options were real money, right?

already been over why legitimate large companies paying market rates for endorsements is totally different than this. you're just plugging your ears and pointing to kawhi's basketball acumen (which was last witnessed in the reagan era or something).

no, i'm just laughing at you carrying a cheating billionaire's water on a message board.