BEE: Kings Call For Back Up (Mike Wilks)

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http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/286744.html


Kings call for backup?
League sources say free agent Mike Wilks will try out Tuesday.
By Sam Amick - Bee Staff Writer

Last Updated 1:32 am PDT Monday, July 23, 2007
Story appeared in SPORTS section, Page C1

The Kings are looking for a backup point guard, and Mike Wilks hopes the search stops with him.

According to two league sources, the five-year veteran, who played 47 games last season with Seattle and is a free agent, will have a tryout Tuesday in Sacramento. Wilks, 28, has been a role player with six teams, winning an NBA title while with San Antonio in 2005.
Wilks' agent, Bill Neff, declined comment.

Although the Kings used their full midlevel salary cap exception to sign forward Mikki Moore, they still have available a biannual exception worth $1.83 million. The Kings on Friday rescinded their qualifying offer to guard Ronnie Price, making the third-year player an unrestricted free agent and opening up the search.

There clearly is a need at the position. Second-year guard Quincy Douby is unproven, especially at the point, not to mention he suffered a back injury in the Vegas Summer League in mid-July. Otherwise, the backup point guard duties primarily would fall on swingman Francisco García.

For the moment, no other point guard discussions are apparent, as the trade talk surrounding starter Mike Bibby appears quiet. Whereas the Kings came so close to trading Bibby to Cleveland during summer league, it now seems possible he will start the season in Sacramento and the trade chatter will heat up again before the February trade deadline, as it did last season.

 

[Dime Dropper]

Please, GP, no!!!!


Stop signing vets to get all our back up minutes!


Hopefully Wilks plays as bad in his workouts as he actually is and we don't sign him. Shakur should be playing our backup mins if we sign him to let him develop.

 

[Spike]

This sure is an interesting rebuild.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

This sure is an interesting rebuild.

geoff likes to call it refurbish

 

[Bricklayer]

Ooh! I like this!

Step 1:
let 24yr old Ronnie Price go (2.9pts 0.7ast 38% shooting)

Step 2:
use last of your exceptions on 28yr old journeyman PG (2.5pts 1.2ast 39% shooting) who has been on 6 teams in 5 years (goes nicely with our 32yr journeyman PF who has been on 8 in 9 years).


Now THAT is how you rebuild for the future baby!

WOOT!!!

 

[nbrans]

Someone please wake me up from this nightmare.

 

[Kingster]

I know, this is setting us up for a blockbuster trade with Bibby......right?

 

[Circa_1985_Fan]

geoff likes to call it refurbish

Geoff may call this a refurbish...I call it ugly.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

the kings are doing a KICK A S S job of refurbishing this team!!!

 

[Jechtsphere]

Would be a great move, this makes us competitive once more. >.>

 

[91sickness]

I had high hopes for this offseason to see some old players go and bring in some fresh blood. Especially with the 10 spot in the draft. What really sucked for us is there were 9 great players coming out of the draft...and we had the 10th pick. And what sucks even more is the teams after us in the draft got good players for having a mid draft pick. Once again we got stuck in the middle. Hawes has potential to be decent but all 9 players taken before him will be studs. Then with not significant trades made we are right where we left off last year.....

 

[JoMama]

Refurbished? More like refried Kings.

 

[NoBonus]

The guy is only 5'10"??!??!

 

[Big Cuz 15]

I had high hopes for this offseason to see some old players go and bring in some fresh blood. Especially with the 10 spot in the draft. What really sucked for us is there were 9 great players coming out of the draft...and we had the 10th pick. And what sucks even more is the teams after us in the draft got good players for having a mid draft pick. Once again we got stuck in the middle. Hawes has potential to be decent but all 9 players taken before him will be studs. Then with not significant trades made we are right where we left off last year.....

gotta give it up to the maloofs hired the great muss who had no direction leading to the offseason and tried to win as many games as possible leaving up to the 10th pick. woo hoo- way to go with the direction of the team.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

i'm really ticked that the kings didn't manage to acquire another pick in the draft. there were ones sold and traded and we couldn't find a way to get another one.

 

[NewMonkey]

I still say "Spray painting a turd" is the best description.

 

[Circa_1985_Fan]

If you put a prom dress on a pig, will anyone dance with it?

 

[BRad1055]

Mike Wilks can ball. Just wait.

 

[Vlade4GM]

Let's wait till next year so we can sign him to the full MLE.

 

[ockingsfan]

GP does not know the meaning of rebuild... he is content to let the kings hoover around .500... he plays thing too safe...

i wish GP would have the stones to pull off the big trade or dump salary for nothing (i.e. ending contracts and picks), so that the kings could get under the cap quicker...

enough of the stop gap fixes (i.e. mikki moore, SAR, wilks)... trade the big contracts for enders, draft picks and cap space... and let the rebuild BEGIN!!!

 

[OptimusRhyme]

This would just be ridiculous, save the roster spot for Shakur who actually showed flashes of being a really good point guard aside from shot consistency.The bottom line is we are not going to win now or anytime Mike Wilks is signed to a contract so why should we sign him, sign some players too develop, do GM's ever have to do drug testing ?

 

[Big Cuz 15]

i'm just puzzled by what he had to say earlier in the offseason and his current moves..

 

[BRad1055]

New flash!!!!! How is Petrie supposed to pull off the "big trade" when no one wants any of our players besides Bibby and Artest and for Bibby and Artest those teams are probably offering players and or picks that the Kings don't want. Do you want Petrie to just give Bibby and or Artest away? I mean come on now.

 

[King James]

I think this is as good as it's going to get this off-season...

Mikki Moore and Mike Wilks... and we're back in the lottery next year.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

New flash!!!!! How is Petrie supposed to pull off the "big trade" when no one wants any of our players besides Bibby and Artest and for Bibby and Artest those teams are probably offering players and or picks that the Kings don't want. Do you want Petrie to just give Bibby and or Artest away? I mean come on now.

mikki f'ng moore at 18-19m or magloire at 4m? poss. mike wilks or ron price?

 

[sdballer]

While I certainly don't love the move, Wilks did perform fairly well at during the last month of the season when he got minutes. I know a lot of players do in season-ending garbage games, but at least it's something. Do I like a pointless veteran taking minutes away from a youngster? Not if we were in rebuild mode, but we're not so what's the point.

 

[VF21]

GP does not know the meaning of rebuild... he is content to let the kings hoover around .500... he plays thing too safe...

i wish GP would have the stones to pull off the big trade or dump salary for nothing (i.e. ending contracts and picks), so that the kings could get under the cap quicker...

enough of the stop gap fixes (i.e. mikki moore, SAR, wilks)... trade the big contracts for enders, draft picks and cap space... and let the rebuild BEGIN!!!

Much easier said than done.

These are interim moves. I'm not that emotionally invested in any of them, so I don't understand the hand-wringing and chest-pounding and cries of dismay.

We KNOW it's going to take a while to rebuild or refurbish or whatever term you want. At this point, I'm just glad to see some kind of movement - you have to crawl before you can walk.

 

[Bricklayer]

At this point, I'm just glad to see some kind of movement - you have to crawl before you can walk.

Cluttering up the roster and capspace with old nobody vets isn't crawling. These are not moves forward, not even slightly forward. Its sitting in one spot and taking a dump in your diapers with nobody around to clean your mess up.

 

[NoBonus]

If you put a prom dress on a pig, will anyone dance with it?

That all depends... how well does the pig dance?

 

[VF21]

Cluttering up the roster and capspace with old nobody vets isn't crawling. These are not moves forward, not even slightly forward. Its sitting in one spot and taking a dump in your diapers with nobody around to clean your mess up.

I'm sure it will come as a surprise to no one that we disagree again.

INTERIM moves, Brick. Moves that are being made until significant changes can occur. I know you don't like any of them. But I'm not as sour on the entire team and front office as you seem to be.

I'm not expecting miracles from GP until/unless he can find someone who wants those humongous contracts we still have on the books. In the meantime, he's working to at least bring in some new faces and without truly jeopardizing the future of the kids. I would much rather see the kids gradually worked into heavy minutes than have them just thrown in sink or swim style.

And yes, I know you'll disagree.