Jonathan Kuminga’s Agent Has His Own Embarrassing Comments Resurface
Jonathan Kuminga just signed a two-year, $13 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves after turning down bigger offers from the Warriors and Lakers this summer. That is not a typo. He took less. A lot less.
His agent, Aaron Turner, has spent months insisting the market would come to Kuminga. It did not. And now Turner’s older comments on the negotiation are surfacing with brutal timing.
In an October 2025 interview, Turner defended his tactics and told critics to give him a year before judging him. The year is up. Kuminga signed for a fraction of what he could have collected from Golden State, and Turner spent the summer feuding with Warriors reporters and calling one of them “stupid” on a podcast.
The receipts are not aging well.
Former NBA players are lining up to tell Kuminga to fire his agent. Some fans agree. The reason is simple. If the goal was to maximize earnings, Turner missed the target by tens of millions. If the goal was to land in the best fit for Kuminga’s game, Minnesota is a defensible choice, but the money did not have to look like this.
The Warriors reportedly offered a multi-year deal in the low-to-mid $20 million per year range. Turner walked away from it because he believed a wider market would materialize once free agency opened. It did not.
Restricted free agency was always going to be tough for a player with Kuminga’s profile. He is 22, freakishly athletic, and a legitimate rotation player, but he is also inefficient, still learning defensive rotations, and stuck at the four with a jumper that comes and goes. Teams looked at that and blinked.
Turner did the podcast circuit trying to talk the price up. The market did not care. His combative rant on Run It Back with Chandler Parsons drew criticism from former stars who saw it as unprofessional. Then his interviews from a year ago started resurfacing, and now every hot take is stacked against him at once.
The Timberwolves get a bargain. Chris Finch will find minutes for Kuminga at both forward spots. He will play with Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert, and Julius Randle. That is not the worst spot to reset a career and prove teams wrong before the next contract.
Kuminga himself does not deserve much of the smoke. He is a young player who trusted his rep and lost the gamble. He can play his way back into a bigger deal in two years.
Turner is a different story. Agents get paid to read the room and know when to take the offer. He read this one wrong, then went on air and told everyone else they were the ones who did not understand. That is not going to age any better next summer, and his older quotes will make sure nobody forgets.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
