According to Marc Stein and Jake Fischer, the Chicago Bulls have legit interest in trading for the young forward. It’s expected to be worked through as a sign-and-trade type deal.

This type of deal makes sense when considering the fact that Chicago is well over the salary cap and have tighter restrictions on spending this upcoming offseason.

It’s unclear what type of assets the Bulls would be willing to give up for the talented player, but that should be cleared up if/when they move forward with the potential trade.

There is a large belief right now that the 22-year-old re-signs with the Golden State Warriors. Kuminga’s market has been reportedly “dry” and not many teams are in a solid financial situation to give him the money he’s looking for.

The only team who has that type of money, without killing them like the rest of the league, are the Brooklyn Nets. However, they really aren’t interested in Kuminga.

Once the Kevin Durant trade situation gets resolved, then many teams may look to the Warriors young prospect as a potential backup plan to secure young, developing talent for their futures.

According to Michael Grange of Sportsnet, the Toronto Raptors have made it very clear to the Phoenix Suns that they will not move off the 29-year-old for any given reason – even if that reason is Kevin Durant.

Toronto has every intention of extending Jakob Poeltl to a new deal, as he has been a focal point of their roster reconstruction for the past couple of seasons.

If he were to decline his $19.5 million player option, then he would be eligible to make $121.8 million over the course of the next four seasons. However, if he opts into his option, then he would stand to make $88.2 million over the next three seasons.

The Raptors have formally offered Immanuel Quickley and R.J. Barrett to the Suns for Durant, however, Phoenix is seeking for more assets in return. If Poeltl did get traded to Phoenix, it would immediately solve their starting center issues they’ve been facing since departing with Deandre Ayton.

In 57 games last season, Poeltl averaged 14.5 points and 9.6 rebounds per game.

Many people around the league, including fans, did not know how much longer Cam Thomas wanted to play for the team that drafted him. Well, no need to speculate and guess, as he has publicly assured Brooklyn fans that he wants to re-sign with the Nets.

In a recent interview with his hometown news station in Chesapeake, Virginia, a topic that came up was his future in the NBA and where he wants to play come next regular season.

“I definitely, definitely want to be back in Brooklyn. It’s definitely home for me. Being drafted there you definitely build bonds with a lot of people there. So, I definitely love it there,” Thomas said. “But at the same time, you have to do what’s best for you in the business aspects. So, I have to play that by ear, but I definitely want to be back for sure. I definitely love Brooklyn.”

This offseason, the 23-year-old is a restricted free agent. The Nets have significantly more cap space than majority of the league, so it will be easier to not allow teams to match their offer on Thomas.

The breakout guard averaged 24.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game last season. This is back-to-back seasons of Thomas averaging twenty-plus points per game.