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Maybe now the nutcracker can stop complaining about how little NBA players make.

 

well, only three teams had enough space to pay him, and atlanta had a team option that people weren't sure whether they'd use. we also don't know what teams told his agent, etc. if it were me, someone paid me 24m last year, and it's not like i was bad. i don't know. in a league where your mle is going to rui/john collins/tobias harris types at your position, i don't know that his ask is outlandish at all.

yeah, i just don't view 3/60 while giving up guys who clearly aren't part of the plan isn't that huge of a risk. especially when we'll be operating over the cap for the next three years, minimum, if not much longer.

i also don't see the reddish comparison. analytics hated cam reddish. counting stats hated cam reddish. neither is really the case for kuminga:





despite all the hoopla about being a bad fit in gs, he's been an above average player, and has played well both in the playoffs and as a starter for stretches.

anyway, it appears it's not happening, but i don't think him not coming here means he's delusional or mentally weak or whatever. gs bungled his development a bit, imo, and his agent screwed up.

 

Yet, all those players got MLE offers and Kuminga didn't. All those players are established starters in the league, Kuminga is not. He was not starting for the 6th of the East and was ok. Ok doesn't get you 25M.

Enough space is not that great of an argument. No team attempted a S&T. The teams that had didn't jump on him. There were TPEs available, multiple trades happening, a bunch of teams did a bunch of moves without thinking about JK. He was an afterthought to 90% of the league and that should be telling.
Hell I didn't even remembered Atlanta had a TO. So literally the team that had him decided to let him go. Not agree to a lower salary with more years. Nothing, just cut him.

His team literally decided he is not worth that number, after trading for him. His previous team didn't believe he was worth that. The whole league don't believe he is worth of that. So... maybe, you're not worth that?

He clearly has the upside, but so did hundreds of talent players who never made it in the NBA. Mindset and mentality is as important as anything else to succeed in the NBA and he is not the first to think he is better than everyone else thinks.

If he'll constantly be thinking of the money he thinks he deserves, he won't fit here. We don't need him chucking 15 shots a game to show he is a great baller. We need him locking down forwards and let offense come to him and make the right decisions. Are you confident he'll do that? I'm iffy...

 

Went with the jumbo shrimp fettuccine instead and it was Excellent!