The final chapter of summer! 48.5 million in two years! How long can the Warriors last?

Throughout the summer, Kumingga's renewal drama almost occupied the hot search list in the entire NBA market. In the end, this soap opera came to an end before the eligible quotation period this year:

According to reporters, the Golden State Warriors and restricted free agent Kumingga officially reached a two-year contract renewal agreement of 48.5 million, of which the second year is the team option.

For the entire league, this should be the most popular and discussed signing in the market this year.

Recalling the process of this debate, Kumingga's team originally insisted on a three-year contract, with the hope that the third year was the team's option, but the Warriors gave a renewal plan for only two years, and they were unwilling to continue to increase the price in terms of the amount. The two sides have been raising the price until now, and it was only a smooth agreement that approached the last moment of the offseason.

Judging from the contract situation, although it was not an absolute perfect result, the Warriors successfully retained the young core, and Kumingga also received a decent treatment in the market.

As the young forward who was selected by the Warriors with the seventh pick in the first round of 2021, this draft pick was added by the Warriors in the 2019-20 season of Russell and Wiggins. At that time, Kuming's amazing physical fitness and potential attracted much attention from the league, but compared to rookies in the same echelon, his tactical concepts and game vision still need to be polished.

But even so, he successfully followed the Warriors all the way to the championship stage in his rookie season, but because the team is still competing for the championship route, the Warriors find it difficult to completely let go of training new players, which more or less limits Kumingga's growth route.

Until the third year of his career, Kumingga's average data reached 16.1 points and 4.8 rebounds, but when discussing renewal in the offseason, he still failed to win a high-paying contract as smoothly as other potential newcomers in the same echelon.

Since the 2024 offseason, the contract renewal negotiations between the Warriors and Kumingga have fallen into a long tug-of-war, and this process has continued throughout the summer of 2025.

For more than a year, the discussion about Kumingga in the market has never stopped. The Warriors' various operations and the persistence of the Kumingga team, every update of the message can become the focus of the media.

Even during this period, the Warriors also introduced Butler from the Heat. The veteran's joining, both in terms of the contract amount and the team's forward position, brought a lot of potential impact to Kumingga, and made the two sides' renewal game more subtle.

But fortunately, this farce ended smoothly, and the Warriors took advantage of the restricted free agent to successfully keep Kumingga.

In the short term, this means that in the 2025-26 season, the Warriors can basically control the right to stay and stay of this young talent, avoiding Kumingga taking the qualification offer directly, and subsequently becoming a complete free agent, putting the team in an embarrassing situation.

At the same time, the settlement of this contract renewal also brought a lot of chain effects. Horford and the Warriors signed a two-year 12 million contract. This middle-class contract allows the Warriors to continue operating the team lineup under the hard upper limit.

Jackson Rowe, who originally had only nine people on the list and a two-way contract, now has at least two core rotations, Kumingga and Horford, and the overall outline of the team is at least much clearer than before.

But even so, there is still uncertainty in the relationship between Kumingga and the Warriors. The content of the negotiations over the past year is enough to show the differences between the two sides in future plans, which means that unless the Warriors provide great sincerity in the future, Kumingga's time in the Bay Area is not necessarily safe.

In the short term, the Warriors have indeed maintained their talent core, but from a long-term perspective, there are still many suspense in the story between the two sides.