"...boiling feelings surfaced to the public. Kerr felt a face-to-face conversation necessary. Speaking after the win over Detroit, Kuminga said the discussion had a positive impact.

“I think it went really well,” Kuminga said. “I think it was just all about better understanding of each other. More communication. We don’t really get to sit together as much and communicate about pretty much non-basketball things, basketball things. We don’t get to do that as much. Just us having that conversation today made me more comfortable that any time I have something to ask, I should just go up to his office. His door is open. Go up there and chill and wait for him to come back whenever. I think that’s what it’s all about, communication every single time if something is going wrong. Communication is the key.” "

“I never complained about playing time (during the meeting),” Kuminga said. “We were just talking about if I do great at something, just go back and remind him, ‘Yo, coach, what do I need to do to get better at this? What do I need to do to gain more trust or more minutes?’ Like I said, it’s more about communication and better understanding from both of us.”

“I love it here,” Kuminga said. “I got drafted here. There’s always ups and downs. I feel like when you look at all the ups and downs, that will confuse a lot of people. But I know Steve believes in me. I know he trusts me at this point. It was just more about communication and better understanding. It wasn’t no beef. None of that. Scratch whatever happens. It’s the past. Move on with better understanding and hoping we all can work with each other and help this team and leave everything in the past.”

What does that better understanding entail?

“All together a better understanding of certain things on the floor I need to do to get the team better,” Kuminga said. “Who is he going with tonight or the next night? Who he trusts the most? As a coach, you talk about who you trust the most or who is producing things as a coach you want at the moment. So it was all about those little things. As we sat together and spoke about it, it went well.”

“I’m gonna keep it real,” Kuminga said. “I went to Coach and talked about me playing with Wiggs. I don’t want it to seem like me and Wiggs are out here fighting every day for minutes. I know Wiggs come to work every day not thinking about that. Same with me. I don’t come to work every day thinking about taking Wiggs’ minutes, taking this guy’s minutes. We come here to play good and help the team win and accomplish things that we all as a team are about. Championship and all that. Whenever the team win, everybody win. Just moving forward, it’s really all about what the team needs first and concerned about the rest after.”

In the immediate future, more minutes are opening up in the Warriors’ rotation. Chris Paul fractured his left hand against the Pistons and will get surgery next week. He is out indefinitely. Kerr said that’ll give Brandin Podziemski, Cory Joseph and Moses Moody a bump in opportunity. But it could also creep open the door to experiment more with Kuminga and Wiggins lineups.

Draymond Green’s impending return from his indefinite suspension will regenerate another logjam. But that’s another depth problem for another day.

“I’ve been there before,” Curry said of Kuminga. “He’s not wrong for being upset and pissed off, wanting to play. Probably should’ve played. Not probably. … But the ultimate challenge for anybody in this league is to not let the narrative be told for you and you not be able to address that with your own voice or directly with Coach or whatever the case is. We all go through our challenges. We all go through our learning lessons. Like I said, he’s not wrong for being upset and frustrated. I heard Coach talk about. He was kind of half-joking but serious about 15 years he was always upset with playing time. That’s a talking point in every locker room in some way, shape or form. There are ways to express it, ways to voice your opinion but protect the team. I’m just proud of the way he — we talked about it before the game. Go out and play. Go hoop. Be a professional. And that’s what he did.”

What the hell going on?

dudes just tryna reframe the narrative

love dray but ill believe hes reformed when i see it...

Exactly

F*** smfh

absolutely insane that the drum gif ain't in OP.

Wish Brown was still here

Damn rip

RIP Dejan and peace to his family

kuminga breaking out

honestly untouchable

streamable.com/v6ap8c

Three hour comp, ten years

Damn

Back to back one point losses F*** 😭

saric should never be out there w/o dray, period

would love to see dray/saric/kuminga/wiggs/steph

once we had the big 3q lead kerr played saric/podz/steph/klay and...i think joseph?

and lakers went on a 15-0 run, dudes a terrorist

saric looney getting cooked vs embiid

who couldve guessed

klay stinks like s***

watch him start monday