Warriors & Jonathan Kuminga Offer Reject Each Other's Offers as Stalemate Hits New Heights

The Jonathan Kuminga stalemate in Golden State continues to fester, as each side has rejected the other's latest offers in recent days.

According to insiders Shams Charania and Anthony Slater at ESPN, the Dubs have made yet another push to try to sign the disgruntled restricted free agent, but he has declined their two-year, $45 million contract offer—again.

In return, the Kuminga camp made what they thought was a sweetheart deal offer to the Warriors, but that too was swatted away.

His agent, Aaron Turner, presented the Warriors a few frameworks during a pair of summer league meetings in Las Vegas, including a three-year deal worth around $82 million that allowed the Warriors to stay below the second apron to use the taxpayer midlevel exception.

Kuminga has been looking for a contract that would pay him about $30 million annually, and there are two teams—the Sacramento Kings and Phoenix Suns—who are interested in a sign-and-trade that seem prepared to at least come somewhat close to that. But Golden State has simply not been interested in the trade returns offered by the Kings and Suns. We reported on one deal from Sacramento that the Dubs turned down.

In the end, the insiders report that the Warriors are prepared now to simply turn the screws on Kuminga, by cutting off trade talks and forcing him to accept one of two offers:

Their current stance is that Kuminga will be on the Warriors' roster to begin next season -- either through their two-year offer on the table or the standing $7.9 million one-year qualifying offer, whichever is Kuminga's preferred path.

Of course, neither of them is his 'preferred path,' and so this grudge match will continue on, presumably for the rest of the summer.