Sometime between now and Halloween, the Golden State Warriors will exercise their fourth-year options for their pair of 2021 lottery picks, Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody. And with that, the two promising youngsters will stay in the Bay Area through the 2024-25 season (barring a trade), with the former collecting $7.6 million and the latter $5.8 million. And then they’ll both enter restricted free agency.
In an ideal world, both Kuminga and Moody would be on the Warriors for the 2025-26 campaign, their fifth seasons in the pros. Because if they’re on the Warriors then, that means that A) they’re good enough that the Dubs want to retain them and B) they retained them.