Most Underrated Kings Players of All Time?

Lionheart

Lionheart

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A fellow fan and I were discussing this topic and we had a lot of heated back and forth haha, and just wanted to get ya'lls perspective on it. The following are 2 I will pick in no particular order and my rationale for choosing each; sure will be some disagreements haha. Some more I thought of, but these are the main two for me.

1-Bobby Jackson-Best 6th man we ever had imo and always seemed to bring instant offense but don't think was as highly rated by a lot of the fans as he should have been.
2-Brad Miller-Played his heart out every game and I loved the dude. Got praise enough but I think deserved more.
 
pdxKingsFan

pdxKingsFan

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There's a case to be made that it's Vlade.

On the court: Much like Domas today, it's hard to imagine the offense even being possible without him. But much of the kudos went to Webber or Bibby or White Chocolate. He was never the "star" but he was always the key cog.

Off the court:
First major free agent signing that I recall that actually lived up to the billing.
Influence on Peja

Post career he's shown great loyalty to the club, even if he didn't make the best decisions as GM. I'll still maintain he was there when Vivek needed an olive branch to the fans after his terrible hire of the morons that preceded him, just unfortunate he wasn't quite ready for the gig.
 
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Jc121

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Richmond showed how we could make great trades at times.
Getting him for Owens showed we couldn’t draft right even back then. We were lucky the warriors were dumber than we were.
We still couldn’t win regularly but we received a HOF player and dumped him for Webber so everything about Richmond was a win for the kings.

Mitch is up there for me but I’ll say it was a joy to watch Wayman Tilsdale in his prime and that smile of his says it all.

I hope all the fans remember the era in which they had a chance to watch our Kings.
 
PorchSurfin

PorchSurfin

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Jc121 said:
Richmond showed how we could make great trades at times.
Getting him for Owens showed we couldn’t draft right even back then. We were lucky the warriors were dumber than we were.
We still couldn’t win regularly but we received a HOF player and dumped him for Webber so everything about Richmond was a win for the kings.

Mitch is up there for me but I’ll say it was a joy to watch Wayman Tilsdale in his prime and that smile of his says it all.

I hope all the fans remember the era in which they had a chance to watch our Kings.
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The Tizzy Flip!! He was an incredible individual and talent. Bless his soul
 
pdxKingsFan

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MizzouKing said:
It’s hard for me to think if recognizable names we still celebrate from the glory days as being “underrated.” From the rest, John Barry comes to mind, and it’s easy to forget the great contributions Beno Udrih made circa 2010.
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It's hard for me to consider anyone who was the "face of the franchise" - the reason Vlade jumped out was because I don't think anything we did was possible without him but they largely gave everyone else the credit. Hell they even let him return to the Lakers to retire and that was the real moment everything ended but most people just accepted it because we had Miller now.

Did we get anything for Barry besides Mateen? It was worth a gamble I guess but I hated losing JB. Another guy that was key to those early year turnaround teams building the identity.
 
Kingz19

Kingz19

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Jim Jackson. He was really good in his season here. Could explode offensively. Strong rebounder and defender.

That was probably the Kings best bench with Bobby, JJ, Pollard, Hedo, and Keon Clark. You even had Damon Jones and Gerald Wallace.

That team would’ve won it all if not for Webber’s injury.
 
pdxKingsFan

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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Kings exposed a future All-Star to the expansion draft, so I feel like he's gotta be at least Top 10.
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That was due to mismanagement but I knew you'd weigh in on that one.

frankly it still chaps my hide that teams can protect 8 players (or whatever it is) but only if they had 8 + N under contract. What the hell is that? We should never have lost him.
 
DesertFox

DesertFox

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Beno was just really solid. He really got his groove back when they added Tyreke.

In hindsight fans were hash on IT. I thought his numbers were Dana Barros-esque chucking on a bad team. But he was a legit offensive force, and I didn't appreciate it.
 
ShastaKingsFan

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Kingz19 said:
Jim Jackson. He was really good in his season here. Could explode offensively. Strong rebounder and defender.

That was probably the Kings best bench with Bobby, JJ, Pollard, Hedo, and Keon Clark. You even had Damon Jones and Gerald Wallace.

That team would’ve won it all if not for Webber’s injury.
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I consider that team to be the best Sacramento Kings roster, with the additions of Clark and Jackson who were really solid. They should have faced off against the Spurs in the West finals, had Webber not gone down
 
pdxKingsFan

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IT got a really raw deal. Unfortunately I think part of what made him great was the chip he always carried on his shoulder and when you paired him with a completely in disarray franchise which we were between the Maloofs and the two morons running the show when Vivek started it was a recipe for disaster.

Ainge really did him dirty though.
 
QWERTYLICIOUS

QWERTYLICIOUS

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I am going to take a slightly different direction here and say "The 6th Man"...Nothing could ever beat 17,317 fans packing the old barn and attempting to, quite literally, tear the entire roof off of that place. Those were the days. Going to games were so much fun! The vibe was fantastic. The atmosphere was like no other.

We were the underrated ones, Kings fans. Because no one ever saw us fill up the box scores. But I guarantee you all that our presence resulted in many box scores being filled up over the years...

So, yeah...My answer to the OP's question: THE 6TH MAN!!! :p:p:p
 
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