Above and beyond that the article states that Rondo is "intrigued" by a one year contract in Sacramento to rebuild his perception league wide.
So trading Gay (who just signed an extension) for a one year rental of Rondo after which you either have to give him a monster deal in the summer the cap explodes or lose him for nothing when he signs elsewhere? That's not 4 steps ahead Vivek. That's 8 steps behind.
I get that you want to make a splash to open your new arena but if that were really the case you would have kept Malone on as coach and let things build naturally.
I've gotten so tired of trying to parse the words of D'Alessandro, Ranadive, Cousins, Fegan, Karl, even Divac & Malone to try and figure out the true narrative here. And so tired of trying to to figure out how to assign blame for the awful decisions that have been made. From letting Evans go for nothing, signing Landry, trading for Williams, letting Thomas go for nothing, signing Royce White, drafting Stauskas after already drafting Ben, pushing Shareef out the door, trading away 2nd rounders left and right as if they have no value, failing to preserve cap space, trying to "win now" despite a lack of talent, constant media leaks, firing Malone, Signing Corbin, and now apparently hiring Karl as well as the complete and utter dysfunction that seems to surround this Kings team. I'm at the point where I don't care who "pulled the trigger" or whose decision any of these things are. When it comes down to it Vivek Ranadive is the managing owner of this team and it all falls at his feet.
We have a terrible owner, a rudderless franchise and the only star player on the team wants out and I'm finding it harder and harder to blame him.
Either fix things with DMC or you might as well blow the whole thing up. The idea that Cousins wants to be traded, the team seems (depending on whose report you read) willing to accommodate him and yet Vivek still believes the team will make the playoffs next year? Delusional.
But here's the thing. If Boogie wants out and Karl wants him out and there's simply no way around it then he's going to be traded. I'm furious about how things got to this point but if I'm Vlade and I've just been dropped into this mess what do I do? Because that's the one guy among the Kings organization (coaches, FO, ownership) that I actually have respect for at this point. If you're Vlade, what are your options? Tell Boogie and King George to make nice? Deal Cousins? I actually feel for Divac at this point.
And if there's no way forward except to trade Cousins, it has to be a full rebuild. Has to. But while I think I'm done as a Kings fan regardless when/if Boogie is dealt, I think the ultimate kick in the teeth would be some sort of garbage Cousins for Lawson/Faried type deal in the hope of being a playoff team right away. As I saw from a Sacramento fan on twitter this morning - "When I die I want the Sacramento Kings to lower my casket into the ground just so they can let me down one last time".
So completely frustrating to be a fan right now.
