Sources: Kuminga won't appear at media day as deadline looms - ESPN

SAN FRANCISCO — The contract stalemate between restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga and the Golden State Warriors will bleed into the basketball portion of the NBA calendar.

Kuminga did not travel to San Francisco this weekend and won't be in attendance for Monday's media day, league sources told ESPN. Golden State general manager Mike Dunleavy made contact with Kuminga's agent, Aaron Turner, on Sunday, but there's no momentum toward a Kuminga contract or return prior to the team's first practice on Tuesday.

The Warriors have kept their three outstanding offers on the table, sources said. The two most lucrative — two years, $45 million and three years, $75.2 million — include team options on the final season and the only offer without a team option is for three years and $54 million.

Kuminga has been resistant to the deals with team options unless the money goes up. He's messaged to the Warriors that he'd view a contract offer with a player option in it as a sign of goodwill after what his side has described as «years of confusion» about his role and an expectation he'd return to fluctuating opportunities under head coach Steve Kerr and a likely midseason trade.

Kuminga's greatest level of leverage in these negotiations is the one-year, $8 million qualifying offer, which expires on Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. ET. Kuminga would be willingly giving up $15.3 million extra next season, but it'd provide him with an inherent no-trade clause and 2026 unrestricted free agency with at least 10 teams with salary cap space, putting the Warriors at risk of losing their former seventh overall pick for nothing next summer.

That's a scenario they've attempted to avoid with their standing offers to Kuminga, but team sources have said they