Kings and free agency - part 2

Big Cuz 15

Big Cuz 15

All-Star
#601
#601
theclash4u5 said:
I'm going to remember this post when somehow, someway, we get a top 3 pick and the 76ers swap with us. Just wait. Knowing our luck, just wait.
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please put it in your signature as a reminder. i honestly think we f'd ourselves on that trade. JT had 1 year + some partial buyout of the final season. landry had 2 yrs left. nik should have been sent down to the d league to get experience. the future 1st and swap is the killer if things don't go right.

i hope they do another grantland kings draft video if we're swapping a top 3 pick with the sixers while they're stacked with young talent competing for the playoffs. would love to see vivek's grill asking the room who to pick again.
 
Double-K

Double-K

Starter
#602
#602
theclash4u5 said:
I could give a damn about the players we traded. Did you not look at the small print? We gave away a first round draft pick after we ALREADY OWE ONE to another team. Not only that, but in the next two years, if we get stuck by lightning after missing the playoffs...AGAIN....and get a top 3 pick, the 76ers can switch their pick with ours. AND DO IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR! It's a goddamn robbery and we're just sitting here watching it happen.
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Like Brick said just now, if we miss those picks down the road. We already lost.
 
kingsboi

kingsboi

Hall of Famer
#607
#607
theclash4u5 said:
No, that's what the Suns did. We traded away players who were 2 years away from expiring to get Matthews or Ellis. Rondo is, and was always, the 2nd piece of the pie after them. What if he says no? If the Suns strike out, they have extra cap space going forward, but they still have their draft picks. In the next 4 years, we will have 2 of our draft picks taken away and 2 of them possibly being swapped out. That's terrifying.
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What's truly terrifying here is being a fan of this team.
 
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theclash4u5

Starter
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#614
The Hammer said:
Traded away our future... do you even know the details of the trade? Do you think Nik Stauskas was our future?
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????

How many times do I have to go over this?

We traded those 3 players AND a 2018 (or potentially 2019 if Bulls get our 2017 pick) 1st round pick AND the right to swap picks in the next two drafts. Stop looking at just the players we traded. The draft is our future. Or was our future. Every single small market team has built from smart trades and the draft. They hardly EVER sign big fish. You sign role players to surround those big fish that you trade for or drafted.
 
Double-K

Double-K

Starter
#618
#618
Big Cuz 15 said:
it all starts and ends w/ vivek. this team is so toxic FA's don't want to come here even if we overpay them.
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I understand your logic. But given the opportunity, you still gotta do it. Even the odds are not in our favor, you don't win if you don't play. You lose out on 100% of the free agents you don't try to sign.
 
Noble

Noble

Bench
#623
#623
Hey what ever happened to the possibility of Josh Smith? Still out there and that would make our big rotation potent. Cousins/Josh Smith/Trill/Moreland would be a sweet rotation. Quite a lot of guards out there that seem pretty interesting; adding Stuckey or Lin, or even Barbosa to the back court sound like solid upgrades.
 
kingsboi

kingsboi

Hall of Famer
#625
#625
I suppose if the Kings don't have first round assets for the forseeable future....they may need to step their scouting game up and find undrafted FA's and hope they pan out.
 
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