According to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater, the Washington Wizards have shown legit interest in trading for Jonathan Kuminga. Washington would see him as their Jordan Poole replacement.

Since they don’t have enough cap space to sign him to an offer sheet, Washington will go down the sign-and-trade route.

Kuminga has struggled in Kerr’s system after falling out of rotation and being injured. Many have pointed to his lack of consistency and defensive breakdowns as the main source of why he lost favor with Golden State’s coaching staff.

If Washington decides not to trade for him, then there are a lot of other teams expected to show interest in him.

The Sacramento Kings, Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks, Miami Heat, and Brooklyn Nets are teams that have publicly shown interest in the 22-year-old.

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 The Athletic’s Anthony Slater and Marcus Thompson II, both the Golden State Warriors and Jonathan Kuminga are interested in considering a sign-and-trade that would benefit both sides.

As of late, Steve Kerr has completely disregarded and pushed off the services of Kuminga, especially when he could have been used in tight or really tough situations. Plus, the Warriors have found it difficult to get Kuminga in a positive, consistent space where it wouldn’t disrupt the flow of the team.

A sign-and-trade would be beneficial to both sides, as Kuminga would prove his worth for a team who wants him and the Warriors would get draft capital, a needing piece, or whatever his return value would look like.

For this consideration to take place, Golden State would need to extend the $7.9 million qualifying offer to Kuminga during this upcoming offseason. Per reports, they are expected to do so.

While Kerr has lost full confidence in Kuminga, owner Joe Lacob has not. He remains committed to the 22-year-old and wants to see him return to the team next regular season. However, if he is traded, Lacob reportedly won’t let him go for nothing. It must be for the right price in his head.

“There are certainly things he has to improve on, but he’s 22 years old,” Lacob said. “He’s got a hell of a lot of potential, and I would think he would be a part of our future plans. Now we’ll have to see how the market all shakes out. We have a lot of evaluating to do. Not me necessarily. But everybody — from coaching staff to basketball operations. We’ll kind of sit around and talk about how we want to construct the team for next year and what the situation is with respect to him.”