{"id":485395,"date":"2026-02-25T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485395"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:00:17","slug":"jonathan-kuminga-shines-in-great-hawks-debut-27-points-in-rout-of-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jonathan-kuminga-shines-in-great-hawks-debut-27-points-in-rout-of-wizards\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga shines in \u2018great\u2019 Hawks debut: 27 points in rout of Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1805\" data-end=\"2132\">Jonathan Kuminga enjoyed a breakout first game with the <strong data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"1878\">Atlanta Hawks<\/strong>, posting a season-high 27 points in a 119-98 blowout win over the <strong data-start=\"1945\" data-end=\"1967\">Washington Wizards<\/strong>. Kuminga added seven rebounds, four assists and two steals, mixing thunderous dunks with made 3-pointers while flashing the all-around game Atlanta hoped to unlock.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2134\" data-end=\"2510\">Acquired with Buddy Hield at the trade deadline in the deal that sent Kristaps Porzingis to the <strong data-start=\"2230\" data-end=\"2255\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, Kuminga stepped into a bigger-than-expected role after All-Star forward <strong data-start=\"2329\" data-end=\"2346\">Jalen Johnson<\/strong> left in the first quarter with a hip flexor injury and didn\u2019t return. \u201cHe connected with his teammates and let the game come to him,\u201d Hawks coach Quin Snyder said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2512\" data-end=\"2807\">Kuminga had missed his first six games with Atlanta while recovering from a left knee bone bruise suffered late in his Warriors stint, where his minutes had dwindled. \u201cEverybody has an opinion\u2026 we\u2019re trying to win as many games as we can here,\u201d Kuminga said after his smiling, high-energy debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Warriors forward makes an instant impact off the bench as Jalen Johnson exits early with a hip flexor injury. Quin Snyder: \u201cHe connected with his teammates\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Atlanta-Hawks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485395"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485395"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485395"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}