{"id":230266,"date":"2026-02-25T06:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/jonathan-kuminga-dazzles-in-hawks-debut-after-getting-dumped-by-warriors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:09:30","slug":"jonathan-kuminga-dazzles-in-hawks-debut-after-getting-dumped-by-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/jonathan-kuminga-dazzles-in-hawks-debut-after-getting-dumped-by-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga dazzles in Hawks debut after getting dumped by Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/jonathan_kuminga\/729110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> couldn&#8217;t get on the floor with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/golden_state_warriors\/87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden State Warriors<\/a>. In his first game with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/atlanta_hawks\/73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>, he showed his old team \u2014 and the NBA world \u2014 what they were missing.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward scored 27 points in 24 minutes in his Hawks debut, adding seven rebounds, four assists and two steals in Atlanta&#8217;s 119-98 win over the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<h2>Jonathan Kuminga has a lot to prove in two months<\/h2>\n<p>The Warriors made Kuminga the No. 7 pick in 2021, but he was in and out of the lineup thanks to injuries and the whims of Warriors coach Steve Kerr. After a protracted holdout last summer during his restricted free agency, Kuminga signed a two-year deal with a team option for 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the Warriors benched him one week into December. It seemed clear the Warriors only saw Kuminga as trade bait, not a real piece of their future. That trade finally happened at the deadline, with Kuminga heading to the Hawks in exchange for Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n<p>He was still dealing with a nagging knee injury after the trade, but he gave the Hawks plenty to think about in his debut.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/jonathan_kuminga_dazzles_in_hawks_debut_after_getting_dumped_by_warriors\/s1_13132_43514431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Kuminga couldn&#8217;t get on the floor with the Golden State Warriors. In his first game with the Atlanta Hawks, he showed his old team \u2014 and the NBA world \u2014 what they were missing. The 23-year-old forward scored 27 points in 24 minutes in his Hawks debut, adding seven rebounds, four assists and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}