Steve Kerr’s full answer on the possibility of dropping Jonathan Kuminga into the Game 7 rotation “I thought he played well in Game 3 when we started him, especially

In the pre-game scrum with the Warriors media, Steve Kerr confirmed that Payton woke up very sick in the morning. “He’s just sick as a dog,” said Kerr. “He woke up ill, and didn’t go to shootaround, and he hasn’t eaten. No way he can play.”

Jonathan Kuminga was an opening-night starter for the Golden State Warriors. By the regular-season finale, he had fallen out of the rotation entirely. Kuminga's inconsistent performance contributed to that diminished role, but according to Steve Kerr, it mostly boiled down to fit on a changing roster that suddenly needed to emphasize Jimmy Butler.