The time has officially arrived for Suns to trade for Jonathan Kuminga

Jonathan Kuminga certainly feels like the one that got away for the Phoenix Suns this offseason. At a time when they re-tooled their roster around Devin Booker - and hired one of the brightest first time head coaches in Jordan Ott - the Golden State Warriors' forward was seen as the perfect young player to partner with Booker and usher in a new era.

Time to trade for Kuminga has arrived.

The Suns can have no complaints about why a deal never got done though. The package reportedly on offer of no interest to a Warriors organization that is doing everything it can to give themselves one more run at a championship around Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler. Kuminga even started the campaign back in the starting lineup, and all appeared good in San Francisco.

That is no longer the case. Warriors' head coach Steve Kerr - searching for a way to try and right the ship out there - again demoting Kuminga to a bench role. Rumors persist that the 23-year-old again feels like he is being made a scapegoat for the shortcomings of the roster as a whole. He might be right, and the Suns are now in position to take advantage.

Although Kuminga can't be traded until January 15th, Phoenix needs to be working the phones now in order to make sure they can land him when the time comes. The emergence of Grayson Allen as a legitimate player in winning games is the key here, his 18.5 points per game easily a career high. He's making 44.7 percent of his 3-point shots, and he's taking 8.8 a night (another high).

Allen has also flashed promise as a secondary playmaker in the absence of Jalen Green, while defensively he has slotted in perfectly with what coach Ott is trying to do. Parting with him would actually be difficult, but this is an opportunity for the Suns to ensure their rebuild around Booker gets kicked up a gear.

If you think Allen has thrived under coach Ott, just imagine what Kuminga could do. The prospect of himself, Booker, Green, Dillon Brooks and Mark Williams sounds ideal for their two-way potential, while the Suns would also be able to keep Kuminga around long-term. Quite how they pay Williams and Collin Gillespie and improve their roster next offseason however, is another story.

For the Warriors, Allen could be a Klay Thompson-lite (and we mean very light...) player for them, his fit next to what they have in place also looking ideal. That wasn't the case in the summer, but Allen has proven he is ready for a bigger role on a roster that has ideas of winning a couple of series in the playoffs.

The Suns also have youngsters like Oso Ighodaro and Ryan Dunn they can add, as well as some second round picks. That still might now sound like enough to land Kuminga, but we know without question now that he has to leave Golden State. With so many other organizations watching their own cap sheets ahead of next offseason, the time has officially come to go all in on landing Kuminga.