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Signing a contract in 1 year with 6 million! With 22 million left, the farce between Warriors and Kumingga can finally end

2:46am, 6 September 2025Basketball

There is still one month left before the new season's NBA training camp and preseason start. In the past few days, the NBA has been flooded with the Yin-Yang contract of Xiaoka. According to the evidence already reported, Leonard received 48 million yuan in compensation from a third-party company, and this company is the empty shell of Ballmer's investment of 50 million yuan at a premium. This has made Leonard take 290 million yuan from the Clippers in the past six years, even higher than Curry (284 million), the number one in the salary league at the same time! Although Ballmer is Xiao Hua's richest boss, Ballmer's attitude of actively cutting off Leonard proves that the ultimate victim is probably just Xiao Ka! On the other hand, there are still many players in the league who can't find their next player, such as Westbrook, Ben Simmons, Brogdon, etc.

Just recently, the Nets officially announced that the team and Thomas Jr. reached a contract renewal. Thomas Jr. finally accepted a one-year and 6 million qualification quotation contract. It will not be traded in the new season and will be confirmed to be free to leave tomorrow summer. According to US media reports, the Nets and the Warriors treated Cumingga the same attitude, and also gave Thomas Jr. two options: either sign a qualification quotation or sign a 2-year contract of 30 million, with only 9.5 million + 1.5 million bonus in the first year, and they also need to give up the veto power. Thomas Jr. was very dissatisfied and thought he was worth an average salary of 30 million yuan, so he finally signed a qualification offer in a rage. In the 23-24 season, Thomas averaged 22.5 points per game, and Thomas averaged 24 points per game last season. In addition, some media revealed that the Warriors and Horford are expected to reach a two-year, $11.7 million contract renewal, and may split the middle class special case.

This involves Kumingga and the Warriors again! Starting with two news, first, column reporter Singer confirmed that if the Warriors do not raise their quotations next week, the Kumingga team will close the negotiation window and wait for the qualification quotation to be signed on October 1st. Secondly, the reason why the Warriors have never dared to sign before the Kumingga case is because they are afraid that other teams will take the initiative to grab the players, especially the Nets! After the Nets renewed Thomas, the official announcement gave Sharp a two-year, $12.5 million contract. The team's book lineup only has 13 guarantee contracts + 1 to be signed, and five unguaranteed contracts, only one person or one is left at most. According to salary experts, the Nets' total salary is only $132 million, and it is even more than 6 million away from the Poor Ghost Line!

If the total salary cannot reach the Poor Line in mid-October, the Nets will face a league fine. There are only two ways to put it in front of the Nets, either eat the garbage contract or go to the free market to grab people! There are only three people in the Nets who have a salary of over 10 million: Porter Jr. 38.33 million, Clarkston 25.35 million, Mann 15.5 million, and the rest are basically rookies. The Nets still have more than 23 million caps (the salary cap is 155 million in the new season), and theoretically, the Nets can clear up to 29 million in salary space. ESPN analyzed that the Nets are not strongly willing to eat the junk contract, and their goal is to grab people: Kumingga, who has a quotation of 7.9 million qualifications, and Grimes, who has a quotation of 8.7 million qualifications.

The Warriors have no choice! Waiting for Kumingga is just two endings, he is willing to accept a quotation of 7.9 million qualification, and refuses a two-year contract with the option of 45 million to lead the team, just to leave Mingxia freely and leave no bargaining chips for the Warriors. The Nets also have the possibility of pushing the Warriors into the abyss in the next two weeks: they add a contract with an average salary of about 23 million yuan to Kuming, and a price of about 70 million yuan in three years, and the Warriors cannot match it! Because the Warriors currently have a 10-man roster, the total book salary has reached US$171 million. If the Nets' offer is matched, there are at least 3 free places left and can only be filled with basic salary. This is close to the first tycoon line (196 million), and faces penalties such as shrinking the middle class's special case, unable to sign first and then exchange, and freezing the transaction's special case.

And the market conditions of Payton Jr., Horford, and Melton are higher than the basic salary (according to previous Bay Area media, the Warriors may have to split the middle class before signing people), then the second rich line (208 million) is a high-voltage line hard hat. Even the special case of the middle class will be invalidated and cannot be packaged for transactions. The Warriors have no way to operate. The key is that their management failed to face difficulties during the offseason, which will keep more and more players away. After all, all the faults come from giving Butler a two-year, $110 million contract and in the first month after the trading market opened, they were overconfident, believing that Kumingga would sooner or later to succumb to the team and accept the offer that looks good but is actually extremely insulting (taking the team option and giving up the veto).

The biggest farce in the offseason is finally over! In the next week, the Warriors' hopes will be completely shattered. Either Kumingga locks a quotation of 7.9 million yuan in one year, and the Warriors leave Kumingga full of resentment, and the locker room will be undercurrents in the new season; or the Nets choose to take action and make a quote with the Warriors' first luxury tax line. The Warriors don't even have the qualification to match and let Kumingga run to the Nets. Even if the Nets don't need Kumingga, Kumingga has brushed out data, and is only 23 years old and young enough, he can also make bargaining chips in the future. After wasting away all summer, the Warriors finally got nothing, and the entire management team was really a failure.

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