Overview

• Jonathan Kuminga has rejected Golden State’s reported two-year, $45 million offer that includes a team option, according to reporting cited by Forbes from ESPN.
• Kuminga is weighing the one-year, $7.9 million qualifying offer, which would grant him trade veto rights this season and unrestricted free agency in 2026.
• The impasse has left the Warriors without any offseason signings and only nine players on standard contracts, with apron thresholds constraining how they deploy their mid-level exception.
• Cap analysis indicates signing Kuminga at the current offer and then using the taxpayer mid-level would hard-cap the team at the second apron, complicating in-season flexibility.
• Media proposals circulate but remain unconsummated, including a Nets sign-and-trade concept for Day’Ron Sharpe and picks and a three-team Bulls–Kings–Warriors idea sending Coby White and Ayo Dosunmu to Golden State.