The Houston Rockets paid Jalen Green a contract designed to trade him. Now the Golden State Warriors are trying to do the same thing with Jonathan Kuminga -- and it has caused a roadblock that neither side knows how to get across.
The Warriors and Kuminga have been locked in off-and-on contract negotiations for weeks, and it has ground everything else in NBA free agency to a halt. There is a line of players waiting to sign with Golden State who have to wait on Kuminga, and it appears other teams waiting on other free agents are also stuck in suspended animation.