I would be beyond wary trading for Siakam knowing full well there is a high likelihood you’re getting half a season out of him. The price is too steep to pay, I would look elsewhere. Not a question of talent, but given his strong (and very public) desire to stay in Toronto and his outside shooting percentages, I wouldn’t risk it. I’d rather sell the farm for Mikal Bridges and that would most certainly have to include Keegan. One of the few players in the league I’d entertain the idea of trading Keegan for. He’s the right age, the right fit, good outside shooter and there has been some recent frustration from the Nets recently, though nothing super significant. If not, then maybe target Grant from the Blazers, but I’d avoid giving Keegan up in that scenario.
Kings trade rumor SZN 2023-2024 edition!
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Bridges is awesome but why would the Nets trade him? he has probably the best value contract in the league, is young and one of the top two way players in the game. He isn’t a number one option but could be a number two in the right situation. If the Nets did trade him it would need to be for a disgruntled superstar. The better bet is they package all those picks and a couple young players for a star if one becomes available
Spewing about fit and spacing again? I imagine you didn’t watch yesterday’s game or any of his last couple of games to make that conclusion. But whatever you’ll continue your take without having any coherent explanation (other than 3pt shooting blah blah blah which by the way went up 2% after the game and oh by the way he’s shooting over 40% since start of Dec) or video proof to back it up. If Siakam is a fit risk, then everyone not named Giannis/Durant/Lebron is.
What Monte needs to strongly consider is if goal is to be a championship contending team in say 2-4 years, what is the path to get there. We can’t do it with our current core. And players like OG, Grant, etc while nice would be option #4 or 5 on the contending teams. If we don’t make a big splash effort to get a 3rd all star at least by the off-season, we would be wrong to assume we can resign Fox after the 2025-26 season.
What Monte needs to strongly consider is if goal is to be a championship contending team in say 2-4 years, what is the path to get there. We can’t do it with our current core. And players like OG, Grant, etc while nice would be option #4 or 5 on the contending teams. If we don’t make a big splash effort to get a 3rd all star at least by the off-season, we would be wrong to assume we can resign Fox after the 2025-26 season.
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Not saying the Nets would do it (probably wouldn’t) but I’d rather see Monte try to reach for Bridges than get half a season rental for Siakam. Siakam is a good player, don’t get me wrong, and he would help us in some aspects, but him signing an extension here is very unlikely. For that reason alone, I wouldn’t go for it. Grant is a more realistic target, but does have a very large contract to consider. Monte, as usual, keeping things very close to the chest.
Mostly likely with Monte limited on assets or what he's willing to move, it was never anything but LaVine, lol. At least not right now. And honestly, I think if it's something not even involving a future 1st Monte is right on the money. It obviously makes sense for Monte to wait for a few weeks to see what else might come up but Monte needs to have some type of standing offer for LaVine if Monte is looking for a talent bump. If Monte were willing to bite on Beal but not LaVine I'm not really sure what it would all be about. They are both the same basic player on bad to horrid contracts if not able to play to their potential. LaVine is actually a better all around player and contract.
There are surprisingly very few teams who could use an upper tier wing. I came up with:
Kings
Pacers
Lakers
Grizz
Golden State (maybe)
the rest are either set at both wings, only shooting for super stars (Knicks) or are crap teams not looking to buy.
If Golden state buys that frees up Wigs. Don’t think the Lakers will be in on the forwards but who knows. That really leaves the Pacers and Grizz as our biggest competition. Pacers are intriguing with a Jarace Walker to dangle but these whipper snappers would have to put aside the boujee lifestyle to live in cold country. Grizz have an unstable star.
Kings
Pacers
Lakers
Grizz
Golden State (maybe)
the rest are either set at both wings, only shooting for super stars (Knicks) or are crap teams not looking to buy.
If Golden state buys that frees up Wigs. Don’t think the Lakers will be in on the forwards but who knows. That really leaves the Pacers and Grizz as our biggest competition. Pacers are intriguing with a Jarace Walker to dangle but these whipper snappers would have to put aside the boujee lifestyle to live in cold country. Grizz have an unstable star.
I haven't done one of these in awhile, but here goes...
I'm combining a couple of rumors (mainly that Atlanta wants out on Dejounte Murray and Clint Capela and has been interested in adding Pascal Siakam) with my unimpeachable desire to add Onyeka Okongwu to this Kings roster...
NOTE: I'm pretty sure the only reason this trade doesn't work on the trade checker tool (currently) is that Dejounte Murray can't be traded until January 5th.
Okongwu has a Poison Pill contract (which counts for 8.1 Mill in outgoing salary for Atlanta but 14 Mill in incoming salary for whoever picks him) so it's a challenge to get the salary cap numbers this close.
Why for Atlanta is easy -- they add an All-Star big to a lineup which is underperforming this year and get do-overs on both the Kevin Huerter trade and the Dejounte Murray contract extension. The hope for them would be that they can recover this season and make a playoff run with a re-configured roster.
Why for Toronto is also easy. If Siakam wants out, this gets them a young All-Star PG who averaged 21pts/9ast/8reb/2stl per game in San Antonio before partnering with Trae Young in Atlanta and a decent depth option at C to replace Siakam who fits their defense-first style of play. Immanuel Quickley has only started 28 games in his first 3 1/3 seasons in the league so I don't think having him on the roster would prevent Toronto from grabbing Dejounte Murray while he's on the trade block.
Why for the Kings? We'd be buying low on a defensive PF/C who I think would pair up well with Fox and Sabonis as a screen setter, lob catcher/dunker, multi-position defender, rebounder and shot blocker. He can also slide over to backup C and share the floor with Vezenkov at times opening more rotation minutes for a guy that many of us would like to see on the floor more for the Kings. Bey (if we re-sign him) gives us a young backup SF who has at times excelled as both a shooter and a defender but keeps finding himself as the odd man out on bad teams with too many young forwards.
I'm combining a couple of rumors (mainly that Atlanta wants out on Dejounte Murray and Clint Capela and has been interested in adding Pascal Siakam) with my unimpeachable desire to add Onyeka Okongwu to this Kings roster...
NOTE: I'm pretty sure the only reason this trade doesn't work on the trade checker tool (currently) is that Dejounte Murray can't be traded until January 5th.
Okongwu has a Poison Pill contract (which counts for 8.1 Mill in outgoing salary for Atlanta but 14 Mill in incoming salary for whoever picks him) so it's a challenge to get the salary cap numbers this close.
Why for Atlanta is easy -- they add an All-Star big to a lineup which is underperforming this year and get do-overs on both the Kevin Huerter trade and the Dejounte Murray contract extension. The hope for them would be that they can recover this season and make a playoff run with a re-configured roster.
Why for Toronto is also easy. If Siakam wants out, this gets them a young All-Star PG who averaged 21pts/9ast/8reb/2stl per game in San Antonio before partnering with Trae Young in Atlanta and a decent depth option at C to replace Siakam who fits their defense-first style of play. Immanuel Quickley has only started 28 games in his first 3 1/3 seasons in the league so I don't think having him on the roster would prevent Toronto from grabbing Dejounte Murray while he's on the trade block.
Why for the Kings? We'd be buying low on a defensive PF/C who I think would pair up well with Fox and Sabonis as a screen setter, lob catcher/dunker, multi-position defender, rebounder and shot blocker. He can also slide over to backup C and share the floor with Vezenkov at times opening more rotation minutes for a guy that many of us would like to see on the floor more for the Kings. Bey (if we re-sign him) gives us a young backup SF who has at times excelled as both a shooter and a defender but keeps finding himself as the odd man out on bad teams with too many young forwards.
Sure, I buy that. He's really just a throw-in to match salaries in this deal though and I think a lot of us are ready to move on from Huerter anyway so the whole "wait and get Bey in the summer instead" idea isn't a reason not to make this trade. If we can get him now and see how he fits for our 2024 playoff run why not do that, right?
I wish I knew what happened last off-season with Kuzma. Did he really turn down the kings because of role? He signed a relatively cheap contract so he didn’t go back to the Wiz for money. He had to know they were going to be rebuilding and he would eventually get traded to a team not necessarily of his choosing. We may never know.
This would be amazing
https://www.si.com/nba/kings/news/trade-proposal-raptors-pascal-siakam-kings
https://www.si.com/nba/kings/news/trade-proposal-raptors-pascal-siakam-kings
And as soon as Barnes goes, somebody else will get immediately nominated to be the guy who gets picked on. Seen it enough times, folks.
Well, if you send off Barnes AND Huerter AND Davion for Siakam, then in two weeks the bete noire of the board will be...Pascal Siakam, and the torches and pitchforks will be out there screaming that it's a good thing he's an expiring contract and we didn't need those 2 FRPs anyway. Seen it enough times, folks.
Well, if you send off Barnes AND Huerter AND Davion for Siakam, then in two weeks the bete noire of the board will be...Pascal Siakam, and the torches and pitchforks will be out there screaming that it's a good thing he's an expiring contract and we didn't need those 2 FRPs anyway. Seen it enough times, folks.