We could have to wait a lot longer for decisions from players besides Kuminga.
With a handful of key names still available in free agency, the wait continues, as we are about to enter August.
The season is a couple of months away, with training camp and preseason starting even sooner than that.
With those circumstances in place, we'd expect to hear where the remaining players are signing very soon, but there could be a holdup on that for one big reason.
Kuminga holding up free agency for players
Jonathan Kuminga and the Warriors have struggled to find a resolution on the forward's RFA situation.
It has gotten to a point that Kuminga had to withdraw his name from competing in AfroBasket in a few weeks, because time and effort need to be put into finding a compromise on the terms of a new contract.
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Kuminga is one of the bigger names available right now, so this is a big deal in itself, but he's also causing other players to wait before signing new deals of their own.
Those two players include Al Horford and Gary Payton II.
According to Marc Spears of ESPN, these two players are waiting for the Kuminga-Warriors stalemate to conclude before signing deals of their own.
Horford has been heavily rumored as a favorite to sign with the Warriors, and there has been a long period that has gone by with no contract agreement, despite those rumors coming out weeks ago.
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As Spears mentioned, the Kuminga situation needs a resolution first, which is likely why Horford has waited so long.
A Kuminga contract is going to cost Golden State a lot more than a deal with Payton and Horford, so they'd rather solve the more important issue first, rather than deal with signing two smaller contracts in comparison.
It appears that after the Kuminga situation is handled, the floodgates might start to open up more, allowing for other moves around the league to occur.
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