Draymond Green has pushed back against recent remarks from Jonathan Kuminga’s agent, Aaron Turner, questioning the motivation behind his public defense of how Kuminga’s contract situation was handled.
Turner has recently appeared in several interviews explaining his approach to Kuminga’s free agency.
That included defending the decision to turn down Golden State’s three-year, $75 million offer last year, which contained a team option for the final season.
Kuminga instead accepted a two-year, $46.8 million contract with a second-year team option before eventually finalizing a two-year, $12.4 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday.
Green believes Turner’s recent comments are less about helping Kuminga and more about protecting his own reputation with potential future clients.
“You trying to get the people off your back,” Green said on his podcast. “You do that by going and get great deals. Just go do that. Put the focus on that. Go and get a great deal.
“Not fighting off because you’re fighting this off so that the next potential clients see it and you’re explaining it. This ain’t really about JK. It’s about the next potential client. That’s the problem in this is you ain’t explaining that for JK’s sake.
“… That ain’t cool at all. That’s very self-serving. Let me look out for myself for my next client so he know what happened. I’m speaking to them.”
