[Game] 56/82: Warriors @ Kings 21 FEB 2025, 7pm PT/10pm ET

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gunks

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Kingster said:
Fox has shown that he's a passive aggressive **** from early in his career. There's no reason to believe that he would be upfront with management on anything. You have to read the tea leaves with him and McNair blew it. He absolutely blew it. If anybody thinks that McNair should have taken Fox's word about staying with the Kings on face value, they have no clue. He should have started with the premise that he would leave and work from there, which means he should have dealt him probably over a year ago with all the hoopla over his performance during the playoffs and his popularity at the highest possible level. Instead, McNair allowed himself to be played like the proverbial violin.
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I don't really think this is fair.

If your team's best player (arguably) and home grown star turns down an extension, but makes it clear that he's doing it to get a bigger max, are you, as GM, going to be a paranoid defeatist and assume he's lying and open up the trade markets on a player that you've built a team around (and the owner loves him too), and risk pissing him off and driving him out? Or are you going to do your job and keep making moves to try to improve the team (ok, he didn't do that at all the "run it back year" - but flipping HB for Deebo was good stuff).

Fox is a bum and ****** Monte/The Kings with his eleventh hour "only trade me to this one team that won't give you anything" BS. I think there's a lot of increasing fair criticism flying Monte's way lately, but the Fox trade is what it is because of Fox.
 
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SacTownKid

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gunks said:
I don't really think this is fair.

If your team's best player (arguably) and home grown star turns down an extension, but makes it clear that he's doing it to get a bigger max, are you, as GM, going to be a paranoid defeatist and assume he's lying and open up the trade markets on a player that you've built a team around (and the owner loves him too), and risk pissing him off and driving him out? Or are you going to do your job and keep making moves to try to improve the team (ok, he didn't do that at all the "run it back year" - but flipping HB for Deebo was good stuff).

Fox is a bum and ****** Monte/The Kings with his eleventh hour "only trade me to this one team that won't give you anything" BS. I think there's a lot of increasing fair criticism flying Monte's way lately, but the Fox trade is what it is because of Fox.
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Exactly, and the damage done to Fox was also mostly done in those first few years of development. The franchise not only didn't build around him to start, they shoved veterans into his path that didn't remotely make him look good and in the process pushed him out of position. The same thing happened with Cuz also.
 
ShastaKingsFan

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Caccia said:
Golden State is demoloshing the Mavericks right now, and it's only the second quarter. My old favorite, Kessler Edwards, has been starting for Dallas and is acquitting himself well.
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Butler is looking like an ideal fit for them....and with their deep playoff and championship experience, makes them a very dangerous team for the higher seeds. Another team that we had assumed the Kings had passed, is now well ahead in projection.

I was betting on Edwards finding a spot somewhere in the NBA. Always thought it was ridiculous that a team in need of wing depth, couldn't at least find a way to use him regularly in spots
 
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