The 2024-25 NBA season ended with a bang as it featured an action-packed Sunday night. One of the games that took place was the season finale for the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers. During the final moments, fans were on the edge of their seats. In the fourth quarter, Stephen Curry led the team with a perfect 5-for-5 shooting from the field. His outing gave them the chance to extend the game into overtime.
However, in the overtime period, their efforts weren’t enough. The Warriors were outplayed by James Harden, who scored 12 points on 75 percent shooting from the field. Even Curry, who was red hot moments before overtime, only had three points on a 1-for-3 shooting clip. Throughout all this, though, one player for Golden State didn’t see any action.
Before the game started, the Golden State Warriors submitted its injury report. The team only had two players, Curry and Gary Payton II, both were listed as questionable. The All-Star point guard was dealing with illness and a right thumb sprain. Payton, meanwhile, was dealing with a bilateral nasal bone fracture.
The two ended up playing against the Clippers. The two-time MVP played 37 minutes and had 36 points and six assists on 58.3 percent from deep. Payton came off the bench and played 24 minutes.
Kuminga was unable to participate in the action because he registered a DNP. In Steve Kerr’s system, the youthful forward has struggled to find his place. He received recognition for his better play earlier in the season. The 6-foot-8 forward, however, missed a lot of games due to injury.
His role was diminished after the trade deadline when the Warriors acquired All-Star forward Jimmy Butler.
Fans react to Kuminga putting up shots following the Golden State Warriors’ loss
Before the game, Kerr expressed his struggle to get Kuminga, Butler and Draymond Green on the floor at the same time. This could be the reason why the Golden State Warriors head coach didn’t include the fourth-year forward in any lineup in the game.
Following the loss, Kuminga was seen putting up some shots in an empty Chase Center.
Jonathan Kuminga getting up shots well after the game ends. pic.twitter.com/MwUyYmlfPT
— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dieter) April 13, 2025
Fans revealed their thoughts on Kuminga logging a DNP in the game despite being healthy and putting up some shots after the loss.
“He’s doing the Dlo gimmick,” a fan said.
“Dlo typa playoff performance incoming,” another fan said.
“He tryna be Diangelo Russell so bad,” one fan commented.
He tryna be Diangelo Russell so bad pic.twitter.com/Yhmk1hnp7L
— 𝔹𝕠𝕝𝕨𝕣𝕝𝕕 (@BolWrld) April 14, 2025
“draymond green should do the same”
“Kuminga got no playing time at all! 😭 Buddy Hield got 16 mins, KumBucket coulda helped them ”
“don’t know why warriors just didn’t trade him if they were gonna play with him like this, sad front office”
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