Ack! I cannot keep up.

[6th]

There are so many welcome, thank-you, good-by threads and some then say, "nope that fell through."

Would someone make an updated list of who we got and who is gone. Don't bother to say who was traded for who. I can't keep up with all that. Please! Who is here and who is gone.

Wait!! What time is the deadline today? Please wait until that is past. Too much happening. Too fast.

Ack!!!

 

[jon e]

this is the most fun ive had on kingsfans in a while

 

[VF21]

Things are still shaking loose, so to speak. Let's just let the stuff fly where it will and the moderators will clean up the loose ends later.

I agree with jon e! This is fun!!!

Whoooooooo!!!

I LOVE THIS TEAM - whoever the heck they are!!!

 

[kingsnation]

Things are still shaking loose, so to speak. Let's just let the stuff fly where it will and the moderators will clean up the loose ends later.

I agree with jon e! This is fun!!!

Whoooooooo!!!

I LOVE THIS TEAM - whoever the heck they are!!!

Never thought the second part would apply!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

 

[theclash4u5]

I'm so glad I had today off of work ! I love this day!

 

[VF21]

And Slim wins the thread!!!

 

[PurpleHaze]

Yep, we need dust to settle even all the way through league approval, physicals, etc. as far as all the many moves.

For 4+ years many Kings fans have been screaming - BLOW IT UP!!! Well, this is closest thing to blowing it all wide apart I've seen in Sacramento Kings history

 

[SacTownKid]

This has been strange, and I wouldn't call it fun exactly. Half of this team won't even be here next year!

 

[VF21]

Blow it up is right. The clown is literally in little, teeny, tiny microscopic pieces. Life as a Kings fan just got a lot more interesting!!!

We'll try and separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, and summarize things as best we can.

If we close a thread, it might be temporary so we can try and merge a lot of the duplicate stuff. Please bare with us.

 

[VF21]

This has been strange, and I wouldn't call it fun exactly. Half of this team won't even be here next year!

And that's the whole point of blowing up the clown. There is absolutely no doubt or second thoughts now. We're rebuilding, baby!!!

 

[Bricklayer]

I'll try to post a new Kings player primer here in a bit. We kind of need a reset. But frankly a lot of these guys are so scrubtastic that there is not much to go on.

 

[kingsnation]

I'll try to post a new Kings player primer here in a bit. We kind of need a reset. But frankly a lot of these guys are so scrubatatic that there is not much to go on.

lol, true..

 

[VF21]

And a lot of them might as well use temporary permits instead of actual numbers on their jerseys. They're not gonna be here past April.

 

[theclash4u5]

We should probably wait a few hours before saying anything....never know

 

[Dime Dropper]

Well, for a rebuilding team, we managed to trade half our team for a crappy contract, little expirings, and no picks.

Clippers, watch and learn.

 

[theclash4u5]

SI.com's Ian Thomsen just reported that the Bulls deal Thabo Sefolosha to OKC for a 2009 first-round pick. That's a great deal for the Thunder, who really needed a quality 2 and defensive stopper to round out their rotation.

.........
we could have got that pick for salmons...

 

[DocHolliday]

And that's the whole point of blowing up the clown. There is absolutely no doubt or second thoughts now. We're rebuilding, baby!!!

Except for one somewhat good sized piece that the Kings can't blow up no matter how hard they have....Kenny Thomas.

 

[Dime Dropper]

SI.com's Ian Thomsen just reported that the Bulls deal Thabo Sefolosha to OKC for a 2009 first-round pick. That's a great deal for the Thunder, who really needed a quality 2 and defensive stopper to round out their rotation.

.........
we could have got that pick for salmons...

Now, now. Why would we want a pick when we can get a disgusting contract?

 

[AriesMar27]

wow this team was hella active....

 

[Bricklayer]

SI.com's Ian Thomsen just reported that the Bulls deal Thabo Sefolosha to OKC for a 2009 first-round pick. That's a great deal for the Thunder, who really needed a quality 2 and defensive stopper to round out their rotation.

.........
we could have got that pick for salmons...

Yep -- that still annoys me. there was interest there. That whole Chicago mess...there were other opportunities. I'm wondering if we were so desperate to get rid of Brad, adn the rest of the league so uninterested in the jumpshooting non-defense playing center that we so cherished, that we basically burned up Salmons just to get Brad gone.

 

[LilMissDiva]

//insert fainting emoticon here//

Ok, well it must be interesting because its gotten me posting here more times than in the last two years so... yeah.

 

[Löwenherz]

Well, for a rebuilding team, we managed to trade half our team for a crappy contract, little expirings, and no picks.

Clippers, watch and learn.

I'm thinking it would have been golden had we swung the Noc for Boston's 2010 expirings ... but apparently GP loves what Noc brings to this team, or something.

As it stands though, we now only have Noc and Beno as frustratingly over-priced multi-year deals while K9 morphs into a valuable expiring this summer. Plus let's not forget we have potentially the first pick in the draft.

Not perfect, but overall a decent job at dynamiting the rotted foundation.

 

[VF21]

Now, now. Why would we want a pick when we can get a disgusting contract?

You know, this is just silly. Geoff Petrie has been very busy and I'm pretty sure he would have made the best deal possible. I'd like to know - honestly - how you know that we could have made the other deal. I'd be especially interested in knowing - in via PM - who your sources are for this incredible bit of information.

I'm sorry if that sounds hostile but at some point it just gets ridiculous. People have been wanting Petrie to blow up the clown, make major concessions to rebuilding, etc.

HE DID IT!

And he did it despite a floundering economy and dreadful scenario for at least half of the teams in the NBA.

I know it's fashionable to dump on Petrie and act as though a bunch of arm-chair GMs could do better but, with the notable and probably inevitable exception of Kenny Thomas, Petrie has moved all the junk parts and aging veterans and gotten a lot of valuable expirings in return. This frees him up to do a lot more finagling at draft time and over the summer.

Those are good things.

 

[Löwenherz]

I'm wondering if we were so desperate to get rid of Brad, adn the rest of the league so uninterested in the jumpshooting non-defense playing center that we so cherished, that we basically burned up Salmons just to get Brad gone.

No doubt. Reports were even in the Chicago deal, the Bulls wouldn't touch Brad unless Salmons was attached.

Seems like we could trade the two together or Salmons alone and that's it.

 

[VF21]

Yep -- that still annoys me. there was interest there. That whole Chicago mess...there were other opportunities. I'm wondering if we were so desperate to get rid of Brad, adn the rest of the league so uninterested in the jumpshooting non-defense playing center that we so cherished, that we basically burned up Salmons just to get Brad gone.

Okay, I'm tossing out the question. How do you know "there was interest there." And how do you know the offers from the other side weren't just unacceptable if they were there, such as giving up our first round pick or some other such nonsense.

I'm very happy about today. Petrie made it clear and there's no turning back. On paper there may have been better deals around, but we'll never know for sure what they might have been. I don't think Petrie passed up any killer deals for the Kings that would have brought us anything we'd be dancing in the street over...

 

[LilMissDiva]

You know, this is just silly. Geoff Petrie has been very busy and I'm pretty sure he would have made the best deal possible. I'd like to know - honestly - how you know that we could have made the other deal. I'd be especially interested in knowing - in via PM - who your sources are for this incredible bit of information.

I'm sorry if that sounds hostile but at some point it just gets ridiculous. People have been wanting Petrie to blow up the clown, make major concessions to rebuilding, etc.

HE DID IT!

And he did it despite a floundering economy and dreadful scenario for at least half of the teams in the NBA.

I know it's fashionable to dump on Petrie and act as though a bunch of arm-chair GMs could do better but, with the notable and probably inevitable exception of Kenny Thomas, Petrie has moved all the junk parts and aging veterans and gotten a lot of valuable expirings in return. This frees him up to do a lot more finagling at draft time and over the summer.

Those are good things.

Agreed. Simply put.

 

[kingsnation]

*Salutes* Second that!

 

[Bricklayer]

Okay, I'm tossing out the question. How do you know "there was interest there." And how do you know the offers from the other side weren't just unacceptable if they were there, such as giving up our first round pick or some other such nonsense.

I'm very happy about today. Petrie made it clear and there's no turning back. On paper there may have been better deals around, but we'll never know for sure what they might have been. I don't think Petrie passed up any killer deals for the Kings that would have brought us anything we'd be dancing in the street over...

The reports have been circulating for weeks they wanted Salmons, everyone knew they needed a defensive OG, and in the end they went out and acquired precisely a defensive OG.

Unless you actually think they wanted and would pay more to get Thabo Sefalosha than John Salmons its not hard to see what happened here.

 

[theclash4u5]

The reports have been circulating for weeks they wanted Salmons, everyone knew they needed a defensive OG, and in the end they went out and acquired precisely a defensive OG.

Unless you actually think they wanted and would pay more to get Thabo Sefalosha than John Salmons its not hard to see what happened here.

Exactly. I could get you 3-4 sources (per ESPN/Sac Bee/etc) that said that OKC was interested in Salmons and one that said they offered Smith for Salmons straight up...who knows if there was a 1st involved. Obviously, Petrie wanted to move Miller more than getting fair value for Salmons.