In the end, Jonathan Kuminga wasn’t going to leave about $15 million this season on the table, even if it meant giving the Warriors control over the second year of his contract (and with that, making him easier to trade).

After a summer-long stalemate, the Warriors and Jonathan Kuminga have agreed to a two-year, $48.5 million contract extension, with a team option on the second season, a deal first reported by Shams Charania of ESPN .

This was essentially one of the offers that had been on the table since the start of summer, although the Warriors’ first offer was about $8 million less in total, Charania notes. Kuminga’s leverage was to take the one-year, no-trade-clause qualifying offer of $8 million, but this year’s salary alone for Kuminga will be nearly three times the $7.6 milli

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