Sources: Jonathan Kuminga demanding Warriors trade on first day of eligibility
Sources: Jonathan Kuminga demanding Warriors trade on first day of eligibility originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Jonathan Kuminga, unsurprisingly, wants out.
The Warriors’ young forward is demanding a trade from the team, NBC Sports Bay Area’s Dalton Johnson confirmed Thursday morning, citing league sources, after ESPN’s Anthony Slater and Shams Charania first reported the news.
League sources confirm Jonathan Kuminga has demanded a trade away from the Warriors with today, Jan. 15, being the first day he’s trade eligible @NBCSWarriors
Kuminga has played once in the last 17 games and has been a healthy DNP by the Warriors 16 times this season
— Dalton Johnson (@DaltonJ_Johnson) January 15, 2026
Kuminga, who signed a two-year, $48.5 million contract with the Warriors on Sept. 30, was not eligible to be traded, due to a rule in the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, until Thursday, Jan. 15.
After spending all offseason canvassing the league for a potential Kuminga trade suitor as the young forward navigated through restricted free agency, Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy and his front office have spent the past several weeks doing so again, with the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks among the teams that have shown interest in Kuminga, Charania and Slater reported in their story, citing league sources.
After a tumultuous summer, Kuminga started the first 12 games of the 2025-26 NBA season, and impressed early before returning to a role off the bench and eventually falling out of coach Steve Kerr’s rotations completely. The 23-year-old now has registered 13 consecutive DNP-CDs (Did Not Play – Coach’s Decision).
While it appears likely that Kuminga is traded sooner rather than later, ESPN also reported that the Warriors’ decision-makers have given zero assurances to teams that the young forward will be dealt before the league’s Feb. 5 trade deadline, believing it could “prove better business” to push the decision to the summer.
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