Warriors’ Steve Kerr Got Brutally Honest On ‘difficult’ Jonathan Kuminga Situation

Jonathan Kuminga has remained planted connected nan Warriors’ chair complete nan past month. The 23-year-old guardant has been a patient scratch successful Golden State’s past 13 games, and has not seen action since Dec. 18.

Though Kuminga sewage disconnected to a basking commencement this season, he was incapable to prolong it and has alternatively been sidelined for overmuch of nan past month-and-a half.

“I’m conscionable gonna to say, it’s a difficult situation,” Kerr told 95.7 The Game connected Wednesday. “I deliberation you guys cognize it. Everybody knows it. You cognize I’m conscionable gonna time off it astatine that, it’s a difficult situation.”

“It’s conscionable hold and see,” Kerr besides said. “We person to power what we tin power and effort to support moving nan vessel forward. This is not an easy situation. It’s not an easy 1 to talk about, frankly. I effort to protect everybody organizationally and nobody’s winning correct now pinch this business and it’s unfortunate, but it is what it is.”

Kerr acknowledged past week that Kuminga hasn’t been playing because they consciousness bully astir their starting lineup and rotation. He did opportunity “it tin change,” but it does not look that a return to nan tribunal is imminent.

“I’m disappointed for him that things didn’t proceed to spell nan measurement they did nan first mates of weeks,” Kerr said past Friday. “At nan aforesaid time, it was going to beryllium tricky to commencement JK, Jimmy and Draymond astatine nan two, 3 and four. I deliberation anybody tin spot that’s a reliable combination, conscionable based connected shooting. Sometimes Steph tin offset each spacing obstacle successful your way—he’s that good—but successful nan modern NBA, I deliberation it’s reliable to do that. And I deliberation we admit that. We gave that lineup respective weeks, and yet nan weaknesses of nan lineup were exposed, and that’s why we went successful a different direction.”

Kuminga will go trade-eligible connected Thursday, and is mostly expected to beryllium dealt earlier nan Feb. 5 deadline. Per The Stein Line, nan Kings reportedly are among nan teams willing successful Kuminga, and nan Bulls, Mavericks and Lakers could besides makes consciousness arsenic landing spots for him arsenic well. If Kuminga does get traded to different franchise, he should get nan opportunity for a greater domiciled that h

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