The Golden State Warriors offered restricted free-agent forward Jonathan Kuminga a three-year, $75.2-million deal that includes a team option in the third season, sources told ESPN's Anthony Slater and Shams Charania.
The new contract proposal, which general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. sent late last week, includes $48.3 million guaranteed in the first two years and requires Kuminga to waive his built-in no-trade cause.
The Warriors reportedly previously tabled a two-year, $45-million offer that also included a team option and involved waiving the inherent no-trade clause. Kuminga rejected that deal in July.
Kuminga is reportedly resistant to a team option, which Golden State is insisting on in its recent proposals. The 22-year-old would prefer a deal that includes a player option, which Golden State considers a nonstarter, sources told Slater and Charania.
Kuminga and his agent reportedly recently suggested a one-year agreement at a negotiable number above his qualifying offer, waiving the no-trade clause and allowing the team to use his deal as an expiring contract at the deadline. Golden State reportedly rejected it because owner Joe Lacob thinks the risk of Kuminga walking for nothing next summer is too high under those circumstances.
The Warriors have only presented him with one non-team option offer: a fully guaranteed three-year deal worth $54 million.
Golden State shut down sign-and-trade deals from the Phoenix Suns and Sacramento Kings for Kuminga this offseason. He has until Oct. 1 to sign the Warriors' one-year, $7.9-million qualifying offer.
The former No. 7 pick averaged 15.3 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.2 assists in 47 games last season. His minutes have fluctuated throughout his four seasons with the Warriors. He was out of head coach Steve Kerr's rotation for most of the first round of the playoffs last spring but got extended playing time after Steph Curry's injury in Round 2 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
