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If Jonathan Kuminga desires a max contract from the Golden State Warriors, he might have to keep waiting for an offer to come.
Per The Athletic’s Anthony Slater, the Warriors aren’t “currently prepared” to extend the full five-year max offer to Kuminga and there “hasn’t been significant progress toward a deal” to this point.
Slater didn’t rule out the possibility that Kuminga might be willing to accept a lucrative offer for less than the max that would also benefit the team:
“That doesn’t mean there isn’t a reasonable middle ground—perhaps in the $30-ish million per season range as the deadline nears. Nobody can say for sure what will happen if Kuminga is presented a concrete, life-changing financial offer and the Warriors come to believe the deal will age well enough as the salary cap projects to skyrocket. There have been tentative extension discussions between the sides, league sources said, but a clear divide remains.”
This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.