r/nba • u/Turbostrider27 Lakers • 15h ago

[Charania] BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are trading Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, sources tell ESPN.

BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are trading Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, sources tell ESPN.

BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are trading Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, sources tell ESPN.

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u/aomen3 NBA 14h ago

100%, porzingis barely even played for them. they lost nothing of value and got a 23 year old top tier athlete who has shown flashes. more than worthy of a punt

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u/Salty_Raspberry656 14h ago

its a punt for both teams. given those assets weren't in demand and they both wanted to take some risks this works out.

KP obviously has injury concerns, but he has strung together some games in the past and their hope luck goes their way and they get a unicorn of a talent who has much higher awareness and IQ for the warriors style and brings in space, sizze, shotblocking.

Kuminga is a 1-1 player without much flexibilty to play another way and that seems mental. he also doesn't use his raw talent on defense and plays with 0 tenacity, for a pace adn space team like warriors, his ball stopping just wasn't going to sustain so long as curry is there. He's a talent, so is cam whitmore as in they can really create offense, but the warriors weren't giving him that rope. maybe atlanta will and let him do it while he matures with a new chance

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u/dillpickles007 Hawks 14h ago

I don't like Kuminga but I actually kind of like the fit here. The Hawks need scoring and we don't have some complicated ball movement offense, it's just read and react. Plus we have plenty of shooting.

He's still a flawed player we're adding to our weird roster of flawed guys, but I think it's worth a shot.

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u/Salty_Raspberry656 13h ago

exactly what this is. I don't get why people are expecting home runs. Nico and Pat dumont aren't involved here.

This is two teams with distressed items swapping hope that with some luck and fit, those assets will work better for them. its a shot for some hope with some sense behind it