2021 Free Agency Mega Thread

Do the Kings make a surprise Free Agency splash?

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Sam Amick 1140 today

1. Buddy's contract looks better today than it did years ago
2. Teams should be interested in Buddy
3. As far as he knows TT trade is going to happen but will look into it
4. When asked about the Bucks/Bogi/Hawks trade and why the league got involved. Mentioned other things similar happened this year too and the league only cares if "You embarrass them". That consistency does not exist.
 
Iced Espresso said:
Sam Amick 1140 today

1. Buddy's contract looks better today than it did years ago
2. Teams should be interested in Buddy
3. As far as he knows TT trade is going to happen but will look into it
4. When asked about the Bucks/Bogi/Hawks trade and why the league got involved. Mentioned other things similar happened this year too and the league only cares if "You embarrass them". That consistency does not exist.
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Yeah I'm confident we'll be able to find a Buddy suitor from the losers especially in FA. Only 3 year commitment, declining contract.

My best guess is something with the Pelicans and Hart in RFA. Hart S&T+Sato for Buddy just makes so much sense for both teams.
 
Rain man said:
It was explained at the beginning that 55 was a number put out by his agent- “creative rounding” to get the narrative they wanted. Not everything is grand ineptitude on our part. This board is seriously toxic.
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gotta love the mute/ignore button here!
 
EIM86 said:
Why does nobody want to play in Dallas? 5th biggest media, state of the art gym, Owner treats you real good, so I don’t get it.
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I’m honestly not sure how much clout Cuban has at the moment and the elephant in the room is Luka and whether he’ll stay in Dallas long term or bolt for LA in three or four years. Plus I don’t think a lot of alpha star types are down for doing the Russ in Houston stand around while your ball dominant scorer does his thing role.
 
SLAB said:
I absolutely hate it with the moves we’ve made. I’d rather sit on Delon Wright as an asset than get Tristan Thompson for some reason.
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While I agree in principle, I am not sure that Wright is as much of an asset as people around here seem to think.

We got him for a packet of chips and that seems to be his going price anyway. So its not like we are giving away this real asset in the deal. We are exchanging original flavor of chips for another packet of chips (chilli and sour cream).

its not like Wright will get us Covington or someone similar. He will get us TT level player in return anyway.
 
ParniValjak said:
While I agree in principle, I am not sure that Wright is as much of an asset as people around here seem to think.

We got him for a packet of chips and that seems to be his going price anyway. So its not like we are giving away this real asset in the deal. We are exchanging original flavor of chips for another packet of chips (chilli and sour cream).

its not like Wright will get us Covington or someone similar. He will get us TT level player in return anyway.
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To be fair it's just one or two people who think Wright has a ton of value. He was had for CoJo so he's worth about that level of player. Just that we don't have much need for TT if Holmes and Len are here so maybe ATL sends us a player in another position that's a better fit or the deal is reworked to include more teams.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
To be fair it's just one or two people who think Wright has a ton of value. He was had for CoJo so he's worth about that level of player. Just that we don't have much need for TT if Holmes and Len are here so maybe ATL sends us a player in another position that's a better fit or the deal is reworked to include more teams.
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I don't disagree with the part that TT may be surplus to our requirements now that we have Holmes and Len going forward. I just find it amusing that people think Wright has a higher or much higher trade value as an asset than TT. They are both expiring deals of roughly the same trade value.

I like Wright and would have preferred to keep him if our draft went differently. Now he is a surplus to our requirements and as such his value across the league reduces even further because a) he is not a must have type player and b) teams know that he is surplus and you need to trade him out.
 
ParniValjak said:
While I agree in principle, I am not sure that Wright is as much of an asset as people around here seem to think.

We got him for a packet of chips and that seems to be his going price anyway. So its not like we are giving away this real asset in the deal. We are exchanging original flavor of chips for another packet of chips (chilli and sour cream).

its not like Wright will get us Covington or someone similar. He will get us TT level player in return anyway.
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Well, regardless of Wright's value in trade, based on his play last year his value for the Kings isn't easily replaced - and most of us don't think TT represents replacement value, especially with all the bigs

OTOH, we (fans) see the tips of the trade landscape icebergs and speculate madly about what the entire field of icebergs look like.

Based on what we've seen so far, I trust Monte and think we're and good hands. And he's not done.
 
ParniValjak said:
I don't disagree with the part that TT may be surplus to our requirements now that we have Holmes and Len going forward. I just find it amusing that people think Wright has a higher or much higher trade value as an asset than TT. They are both expiring deals of roughly the same trade value.

I like Wright and would have preferred to keep him if our draft went differently. Now he is a surplus to our requirements and as such his value across the league reduces even further because a) he is not a must have type player and b) teams know that he is surplus and you need to trade him out.
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I'll concede that the one thing I liked about TT was that he gets a little more money which means we can stretch that to even more value in return at the deadline. Plus he is a "name" that people like LeBron seem to care about more than advanced stats. I think no matter what the advanced stats and analytics say about Wright he has a ceiling on what you'll get back from him.

Like I have said in other threads, I don't really care one way or the other if it goes down as long as we aren't doing this thinking we have long term plans for TT.
 
With Wright we had THREE of the top 20 players in steals per game.

He was our second best shooter from downtown.

He served as a primary ballhandler in thehe second unit AND played sold D.

Let's stop with this he's equal to TT nonsense because he had us playimg some exciting basketball.
 
joemama said:
With Wright we had THREE of the top 20 players in steals per game.

He was our second best shooter from downtown.

He served as a primary ballhandler in thehe second unit AND played sold D.

Let's stop with this he's equal to TT nonsense because he had us playimg some exciting basketball.
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Sure. On a bad team. Jason Hart had a great season on a bad team before he signed with the Kings and what happened after that?

Fact is, Wright's trade value is limited. Nice bench player but not a game changer. He is also someone that happens to be on a team that has a real need to thin out the backcourt to give its most important players in the rebuild more minutes. Teams are well aware of this and they will not be offering full value.

So keep on dreaming that we could get more than TT in a deal for Wright...Their trade value is roughly on par all things considered. Expecting to turn Wright into something much more enticing given the circumstances.
 
joemama said:
With Wright we had THREE of the top 20 players in steals per game.

He was our second best shooter from downtown.

He served as a primary ballhandler in thehe second unit AND played sold D.

Let's stop with this he's equal to TT nonsense because he had us playimg some exciting basketball.
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In a trade vacuum, they're right. Wright is only as valuable as what some other GM is willing to give up for him.

Both you and I know that his on court value is much much higher than what his trade value is. It's simple, he's underrated. The team that gives up next to nothing to get Wright is always going to be the winner because when he steps foot on the court, he's going to be much more valuable than whatever crappy player got traded for him.

We had about 5 guards in a semi regular rotation last year with Fox, Hield, Hali, Cojo/Wright and Davis. But now that we have Mitchell and still don't know if we have Davis or not (an inferior player to Wright), I guess trading Wright for next to zero value is the only play available in some people's minds.
 
ParniValjak said:
So keep on dreaming that we could get more than TT in a deal for Wright...Their trade value is roughly on par all things considered. Expecting to turn Wright into something much more enticing given the circumstances.
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Not dreaming we could get more. I'm actually hoping we keep him.
I think he is a talented player. The stats back this up.
 
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