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Monk losing out on the Sixth Man award by the smallest margin in the history of the current voting format is emblematic of how this whole Kings season has gone. Hopefully this isn't how his stay in Sacramento ends. He's as important to the team culture as anyone else in that locker room, coach...

I believe what you're recalling is that the MLB draft used to be held a week or two before the college world series so it was not uncommon to see drafted players still competing for their college teams for that event. It looks like this years draft is in July though, so that will no longer be...

Wow, it's that bad is it? Lose a game to the Pelicans and suddenly our whole future is over? I got nothing for you then. Might as well fire the coach, trade Fox, and go back to praying for lottery balls I guess? I don't seem to be getting anywhere trying to provide a counterpoint so maybe I'll...

Fox and Sabonis are 26/27! They should have another 10 years left in their NBA careers at least. We haven't even won a playoff series yet and you're ready to swear off rookies contracts and go all-in on a 30 year old perennial loser instead? Can't we at least shake some more branches? There have...

Jerami Grant is certainly an option we could look at. I'm sure he's available if we want to make a run at trading for him. And in light of the season HB just had, I agree that we should be looking for an upgrade at his position. You just lose me at Grant being "likely the best option". If we...

Even despite his shortcomings, Harrison Barnes has had a better career so far than Jerami Grant. His shooting splits are better, his per game averages are better, his win shares are better. The one thing I would point to as a plus with Jerami Grant is that he used to block shots -- he's had two...

The Kings and Warriors each have about a 3.6% chance of moving into the top 4 so this is one case where winning the coin flip is likely to matter more than the actual lottery. We shall see though!

Yeah but Jerami Grant's $30-35 million per year salary causes more problems than his play solves. I don't disagree about upgrading the starting PF spot and Grant fits the template of a player type we should be looking for but any appeal he had for me was gone as soon as he signed that contract...

Keon Ellis out-rebounding Jerami Grant this season should kill Grant's inevitable run as a fan favorite topic of trade speculation for this whole off-season but it probably won't.

This is why fan and media voting for awards and All-Star spots is dumb. Half of your argument against building around Fox/Sabonis is that 12 year olds in LA and New York and/or the bot farms overseas don't like them enough to vote them into the All-Star game? This team won 46 games and finished...

The miss there wasn't picking a guard instead of a wing -- it was ranking Mitchell over Murphy and Jones (which almost everyone else did too, by the way). Planning to pick the best player on the board regardless of position and actually identifying that player correctly are two very different...

Of all the guys I've looked at so far, which is about 20, Risacher has been the least impressive to me. I've got Sarr and Dillingham 1-2 right now and I see All-Star potential with both of them. I'll post my thoughts in more detail once I see the rest of the first round guys but I was just...

Twice in as many weeks... this whole winning vs. Golden State thing is starting to become a habit. :)

Let me try to switch the perspective here... In the playoffs a coach is typically going to play their top 8 or 9 players and the better those 8-9 players are, the more likely you are to win. The starting lineup is important but so is having multiple players you can slot into combinations with...

We're picking at 13 or 14 -- if you find an NBA starter in that range you've done your job. I don't think ruling guys out because they don't fit a position of need is a winning strategy where we're picking.

I couldn't disagree more. Kings fans are really hard on Fox and Sabonis for some reason. These guys are both All-Stars who made a strong case for being among the top 20 players in the league this season. Sabonis improved in almost every area but he continues to struggle in the mid-range and he...

I'm guessing that OKC, Denver, Phoenix, and Dallas advance. It's a shame we didn't get to see a Sacramento vs. OKC series. That would have been a much more exciting match-up. New Orleans had our number all year but they haven't been able to sustain that level of success against anyone else in...

I think there's a lot of valid points being made in this thread. The offense was bizarrely one-note this season. It was worrying that the team seemed unable to course correct mid-game when things started going off the rails -- usually because we couldn't make a basket for 5+ minutes at a time...

I didn't watch a second of this one -- had other plans tonight. I've seen enough Kings basketball this season that I don't need to know everything that went wrong this time. I'm disappointed that our season is over but at the very least that means we're getting a late lotto pick this year. I...

Unless that wall pass also comes with a personal jetpack, hovercraft, or a police escort LA fans are still showing up late. I'm just happy that my daily commute no longer takes me through downtown LA so I can remain blissfully ignorant of whatever is happening at Crypto.com Arena and Dodger...