Terminate the transaction! Refusing to break up with 6 for 1, the Warriors are in a row, and Curry s last championship is over

Editor|Lao Kankanqiu

Since the opening of the NBA free market, the Western Conference has competed to launch an arms race. The Nuggets won high-quality puzzles such as Cameron Johnson and Hardaway Jr., and the lineup depth increased significantly; the Rockets introduced strong players such as Durant and Finney Smith to strengthen them, and their strength on paper jumped to the first echelon of the league; the Clippers won two generals Bill and Paul to create an epic veteran combination, and even if they failed, it would free up huge salary space for signing in 2027; the defending champion Thunder spent 813 million US dollars, retaining all the lineup to continue to compete for the championship.

The only surprise is that the traditional giants Warriors have not completed a single deal so far, which is surprising. This is not the most difficult thing. Just today, according to the famous US media ESPN reporter shams, the relationship between the Warriors and Kumingga completely broke up. The Warriors wanted to keep the latter and offer a new contract of $45 million for two years and $45 million, but were decisively rejected. The management finally had no choice but to terminate the negotiations for signing first and then trading, and choose to keep Kumingga strongly.

01 The smoke of gunpowder at the negotiating table: the gap between 20 million and 30 million annual salary

In fact, the free market has been opened for a whole month, and the only Warriors among the 30 teams in the league has not had any new contracts or transactions. The fundamental reason is the impact of the deadlock with Kumingga. Previously, the Warriors management had reached an oral agreement with champion veterans Horford and Melton, planning to use the mini middle class to strengthen it, but it was forced to shelve because of Kumingga's renewal issue. The reason is that if the Warriors sign free agent first, they will be restricted by the hard salary cap and lose Kumingga's right to match, and the management dare not gamble.

Therefore, the Warriors have been trying to complete Kuminga's contract extension first. After many considerations, the team provided Kumingga with a new contract of $45 million for two years, but the contract contained the team option and asked the latter to give up the veto of the transaction. Kumingga and his team decisively rejected the contract. What they wanted was a long-term contract with an annual salary of $30 million, with a total price of nearly twice the Warriors' quotation, and therefore the negotiations between the two sides were stagnant.

" The Warriors' highest offer to Cumingga is about 45 million in two years." NBA famous reporter Marc Stein wrote in the column. "Cummingga's agent Aaron Turner filmed the Hawks' contract renewal of Jaylen Johnson's contract: $150 million in five years, and the same price for Cumingga."

The reality is cruel. Data shows that last season, Kuming played 47 games and averaged only 15.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, with a three-point shooting percentage as low as 30.5%. 16 executives from the league showed huge differences in his anonymous assessment: the minimum valuation is 17 million yuan, the highest is 25 million yuan, and the average is about 20.4 million yuan.

02 Transaction End: Refusal to 6 for 1

When the renewal negotiations were in a mud, Kumingga's team turned to seeking to sign first and then change. The Kings and the Suns became the most active suitors, but the Warriors gave the lowest three trading requirements:

must include a potential new star

must take a first-round draft pick

will never accept a garbage contract

The Suns are most interested in Cumingga, and proposed a 6-for-1 plan consisting of Reus O'Neal, Richards and four second-round picks, and promised to provide Cumingga with a 4-year, $90 million new contract. The last year is still a player option, but the Warriors expressed no interest because of the lack of first-round and potential new star (Dunn), and finally refused.

The Kings proposed a 3-for-1 plan with Devin Carter and Salicia as the core of the protected first-round pick, which was also rejected by the Warriors. The Warriors' asking price shocked the league. ESPN reporter Anthony Slater commented: "We must not only convince Kumingga to cut salary, but also meet the Warriors' high-threshold trading conditions. This is the root of the deadlock!"

03 Treasures: Curry's last championship was suspended

After rejecting all possible transactions, the Warriors management chose to burn and end the transaction negotiations completely, and toughly kept Kumingga with the team: either accept a new contract of 2 years, $45 million, or choose a qualification offer of $7.9 million, and become a full free agent next year.

You should know that Kumingga's discomfort in the Cole system will become increasingly intensified in the future, and Jimmy Butler was pressed on the bench many times after joining last season. When the Warriors revealed with the team reporter that Kumingga and Cole had "not ideal relationship", if the Warriors still had to force Kumingga to stay, does that mean that there was another unstable factor in the locker room?

37-year-old Curry has come to the end of his career, but the Warriors missed all opportunities for reinforcement due to the Cumingga deadlock this summer. The verbal agreement between Horford and Melton is still hanging high in the air, and the lineup depth has not increased but decreased. While other Western teams recruited for the new season, the Warriors' time was still at the negotiating table.

The door to the free market is slowly closing, and Curry's window of opportunity for the last championship is also narrowing with the sea breeze in Auckland.