Above them, team owner Joe Lacob had bonded with Kuminga at a Miami dinner during the 2021 predraft process and gripped onto the idea that Kuminga could still become a face of the franchise's next era at several forks in the road. But Lacob was too unwilling to move off a dream that didn't fit the roster or system, one his coaching staff didn't desire to execute, team sources said. "Let your basketball people make basketball decisions," one team source said.
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