{"id":514998,"date":"2026-09-11T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514998"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:48:10","slug":"jonathan-kuminga-explains-wolves-choice-they-really-wanted-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jonathan-kuminga-explains-wolves-choice-they-really-wanted-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Kuminga explains Wolves choice: \u201cThey really wanted me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1525\">Jonathan Kuminga signed a two-year, $12.5 million contract with the Timberwolves that includes a player option. The Lakers reportedly offered roughly twice as much annually over a longer term.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1755\">Tim Connelly and Alonzo Gee\u2019s visit to Miami, Anthony Edwards\u2019 near-daily calls and Alex Rodriguez\u2019s personal outreach proved decisive. \u201cThem wanting me to be here, it felt real,\u201d Kuminga said. \u201cMaking a decision was very easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"1958\">The 23-year-old is particularly eager to contribute defensively alongside Rudy Gobert, Jaden McDaniels and Edwards. \u201cIf we have a great defense, the offense will come in time. It\u2019s just trying to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forward chose Minnesota over the Lakers and Trail Blazers despite receiving a lower financial offer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"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-514998","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\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514998","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=514998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514998"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514998"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514998"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}