RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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Lakers learn whether Jonathan Kuminga wants to play in Los Angeles originally appeared on The Sporting News .
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The Los Angeles Lakers are still not done this offseason. There seems to be a lot of chatter about potentially landing one more player, with Jonathan Kuminga being at the top of that list.
Kuminga, undoubtedly an interesting young player, is good, but far from great. In fact, he's a pretty average player at this stage of his career, though the idea is that he has a lot of upside and the Lakers could have lucked out with him. Kuminga also fits a need for what Los Angeles has at the moment, as it could use a wing-type player to pair next to Luka Doncic.
With the situation unresolved, however, it poses the question of whether he wants to be in Los Angeles. According to the latest report, there's a sense that the young man really wants to be in Los Angeles.
“I think he would like to play for the Lakers and they’d like to have him, but I know they–and a lot of teams–have already told him, ‘Look, this is what we can do,’ so he has all the information. The money, the cap space, it has been spent. He’s not waiting for anything new out there, because there is nothing new that’s gonna happen. So, he is stuck. But he is entitled to take as much time as he wants,” Sean Deveney reported .
The problem continues to be what the Lakers can give the Atlanta Hawks in a sign-and-trade. The Hawks, who hold all the keys to this situation, are probably looking for more than what the Lakers can give.
I'm also unsure if his value is as high as Atlanta seems to believe, but that's for it to figure out and the Lakers to learn.
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