Chicago in December has the kind of cold that doesn’t spare a single inch.

But the warmest place in the Windy City might have been the chair occupied by Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga at United Center Sunday night.

A “DNP-Coach’s Decision” for a healthy, former No. 7 overall pick who just signed a contract making him the Warriors’ fourth-highest-paid player isn’t a message or nudge.

It’s a scream of frustration.

It’s Steve Kerr standing on the scorers’ table with a megaphone, announcing to the league that he would rather play a rotating cast of try-hards and NBA geriatrics than watch Kuminga miss another box-out, treat a defensive rotation like a strictly optional suggestion, or stop the ball dead for another 10-dribble isolation experiment.

This is the final salvo. The final straw

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