Joe Lacob wasn’t as heartbroken about the outcome of the Warriors’ exhausting Jonathan Kuminga situation as some might have thought.Despite being Kuminga’s biggest fan, Lacob understood that ultimately trading Kuminga to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis was in the best interest of all parties.Lacob spoke to The San Francisco Standard’s Tim Kawakami after Golden State’s 121-110 loss to the Boston Celtics on Thursday about the decision to part ways with the organization’s former first-round pick and weighed in on how difficult it was to sign off on it.“Not hard; everyone assumes a lot about that,” Lacob told Kawakami. “Look, I liked him as a player, I like him as a person. … And at times, he showed a lot of potential for us. Just never quite really worked entirely. And he got injured at inopportune times.“I think we all knew we had to do something. But we weren’t going to give him away, either. Because he is a talent, and a lot of people think that, too. It just worked out — we got something that we thought was worth doing. Otherwise, we would’ve kept him.”Kuminga, drafted No. 7...
Warriors owner Joe Lacob states trading Jonathan Kuminga was ‘not hard’
Published February 20, 2026 • 5 hrs ago
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