Jonathan Kuminga, sources said, felt that they'd already quit on him and viewed the sudden request to go from ice cold and rotting on the end of the bench to a national TV date with the defending champions as a recipe to shame him. He was sore from weight work and declined their latest request to be the in-case-of-emergency option. In the weeks leading up to the trade deadline, several members of the organization described the biggest need on the current
Warriors roster. That player, they said, was a big scoring wing, one who used athleticism to affect the game in a variety of ways but embraced the idea of being a play-finisher and not always a play-starter. "Basically the Jonathan Kuminga from the first couple weeks." one team source said. "Or his third season."
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