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NBA Restricted Free Agents: Which Rising Stars Will Shake Up the Market and Secure Game-Changing Deals?

NBA Restricted Free Agents: Which Rising Stars Will Shake Up the Market and Secure Game-Changing Deals?

Kuminga, 22, has proven capable of putting up numbers, averaging 15.8 points on 49.9% shooting and 4.7 rebounds in 25.6 minutes per game over the last two seasons. That production has increased when he’s gotten the opportunity to start: 17.1 points on 51.4% shooting to go with 5.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.4 combined steals-and-blocks in 28.8 minutes per game over 56 starts.

That’s the view that Zach Lowe of The Ringer relayed during a recent episode of his podcast, conveying his impression from conversation with folks around the NBA “the consensus on Cam Thomas, if there is one — and he’s got some fans, and he’s got some mega-detractors — but the consensus is kind of, like, ‘empty-calories ball hog.’”AdvertisementIf Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

If Kuminga’s frustrated enough by the lack of motion that he decides he just wants to make as clean a break as he can, he can choose to sign his .9 million qualifying offer for next season, allowing him to enter unrestricted free agency in the summer of 2026. That can be a perilous path, though, inviting the possibility that injury or poor performance could leave a player struggling to find even the kind of deal that he’d previously scoffed at:

Early in free agency, the Warriors were reportedly seeking a first-round pick and young talent to part ways with Kuminga in a sign-and-trade; no such deal materialized. Fischer recently reported the Kings, Bulls and Suns have all expressed at least some level of interest in Kuminga. But with Golden State continuing to seek “some level of first-round draft compensation” in any sign-and-trade, while also being reluctant to agree to an average annual value of million a year or more on a long-term contract, the wheels are moving in slow motion — if they’re moving at all.

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