00:00Golden State Warriors fans, big news came out Wednesday night that reshapes their roster.
00:05According to a person with knowledge of the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because it
00:09wasn't yet league approved, the Warriors found their big man by acquiring the 7-foot-2 Chris
00:14Stapps Porzingis from the Atlanta Hawks. In the same move they granted forward Jonathan
00:20Kuminga his wish to be traded and also dealt guard Buddy Heald to the Hawks. Now for us here in
00:25Phoenix there's a specific detail in this story that connects to our sons. There had been reporting
00:30that the Phoenix sons were at one point motivated to acquire Jonathan Kuminga. However, as this
00:36season progressed, that reported interest from Phoenix lesson to give you the full picture on
00:41Kuminga. The 23-year-old from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was Golden State's 7th overall pick
00:47in the 2021 draft. He sat out Tuesday night's 1-13-94 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers with a bone
00:54bruise in his left knee his fifth straight missed game. This season, he appeared in 20 games with 13
00:59starts, averaging 12.1 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 2.5 assists. He agreed to a new two-year contract
01:07this past September 30th that could be worth up to $46.5 million if the team option for 2026-27
01:14is exercised. The backstory is that in mid-January, Warriors coach Steve Kerr spoke with Kuminga about
01:20being out of the rotation for over a month and the expectation he'd be traded. However,
01:25Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy said as recently as January 20th, after Jimmy Butler's season-ending
01:30knee injury, that there wasn't an immediate indication other teams were interested. Coach
01:35Kerr discounted any issues between them as the reason for the trade request, which came after
01:41Kuminga wasn't used in 17 of 18 games, though he's been listed as injured for nine games this season.
01:47Last season, Kuminga averaged 15.3 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.2 assists in 24.3 minutes over 47
01:56games. In the playoffs, he averaged 15.3 points per game over eight games, shooting 48.4 percent from
02:04the floor and 40 percent from three, including a career-best 30 points in Game 3 of the Western
02:10Conference semifinals against Minnesota last May. The centerpiece for Golden State is Kristaps Porzingis,
02:15the 30-year-old Latvian, nicknamed the Unicorn, is averaging 17.1 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 2.7
02:23assists this season. The Warriors will be his sixth team in 10 seasons. So, Suns fans, given how our
02:29frontcourt is currently constructed, what's your take on the Suns' reported earlier interest in a
02:33player like Kuminga, and this major shift in the Western Conference landscape.
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