Bonzi onboard, who do we go after for PF?

Who should the C/PF position be?

  • Eddie Curry

    Votes: 16 11.2%

  • Steven Hunter

    Votes: 11 7.7%

  • Dale Davis

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Antoine Walker

    Votes: 10 7.0%

  • Tyson Chandler

    Votes: 38 26.6%

  • Reggie Evans

    Votes: 24 16.8%

  • Danny Fortson

    Votes: 4 2.8%

  • Another FA

    Votes: 6 4.2%

  • Trade

    Votes: 22 15.4%

  • Kenny Thomas

    Votes: 9 6.3%
  • Total voters
    143
"It's clear that, at 35, Kemp never has to work again. So why is he heading toward his "sweatbox" and closing the garage door? Why is he balancing on a yellow ball, lifting a medicine ball overhead and grimacing through hundreds of crunches? Why is he jumping rope, lifting weights and trimming the fat? "I'm going to play again,'' Kemp says, speaking in depth publicly for the first time since he retired two years ago after a 14-year NBA career. "And if I'm going to play again, there's only one way to do it. The right way. On my own." ---Seattle Times

"Kemp says this isn't about the money. It's about the way his legacy has been defined. You look at him and see a troublemaker, a baby factory, a talent unfulfilled. More than once, Kemp says he doesn't care what anybody thinks. And yet he cares so much, he's willing to leave the Cribs-style house and lavish lifestyle for all the things that dragged him to the bottom. Here's how he got there. Here's Shawn Kemp in 2003, too fat to look at himself in the mirror. Here's Shawn Kemp, quitting with two years remaining on his contract. "Don't even call me about no basketball,'' Kemp told his agent, Tony Dutt." ---Seattle Times

"He's finally talking now, rain clouds hovering above the Reign Man. He looks trim, close to the player Seattle remembers. Gone are the rolls of fat and double chin that defined him later, replaced by definitions in muscle fast returning. He's talking fast, animated, gesturing with arms spread wide to make his points. There's a reason, an excuse, for everything that happened." ---Seattle Times

"He's married now, to Marvena Kemp, a woman he calls the family's backbone. Kemp first spotted her on a basketball court and introduced himself at a 7-Eleven near the Seattle Center later that day. They were friends for years before they dated and nearly a decade before they married. As always, Kemp's reputation precedes him. "It took me awhile [to get her to say yes],'' Kemp says. "She was ready for me to change my lifestyle around.'' Their three sons — Jamir, 10, Jamar, 8, and Jaman, 4 — live year-round with Marvena and Shawn in their two homes, one in Houston and one in Washington, in Maple Valley. Kemp won't discuss his other children or even how many he has, other than to say he has never missed a child-support payment, and he won't let his wife be interviewed." ---Seattle Times

"Scott Dery, a King County sheriff's deputy, noticed the truck behind a Brown Bear Car Wash on Aurora. Kemp says they were coming from a nearby lake and stopped to clean out the car. He says there were cars on either side of his. He's speaking with regret, but also says police picked his car out of a crowded parking lot, a notion that differs with the police report. Kemp says he knew there was marijuana in the car, but not cocaine. Had he known the contents of a bag in his front seat — more than 60 grams of marijuana, 1.2 grams of cocaine, a stun gun, a 9-millimeter handgun, pepper spray and Piña Colada tobacco wraps, among other items — Kemp says he wouldn't have allowed a search. He also says he wasn't smoking any pot, although the police report differs, saying, "Kemp indicated that they had smoked some earlier." ---Seattle Times

"Kemp sounds wistful looking back at this period of his NBA career. He also expresses, for the first time, regret over leaving the Sonics and the circumstances that surrounded his departure. During a midseason game in 1997, Kemp watched Jim McIlvaine block seven shots off the bench against the Washington Bullets. He says he turned to the coaching staff and implored them to sign the big man to a long-term deal." ---Seattle Times

"Now,'' Kemp says, "that don't mean go give the big man all the damn money we got. It's not his fault they opened up the vault and gave him all the money. I would have done the same thing. We're still friends, and I tell him that all the time.'' By then, Kemp's relationship with Karl and the Sonics is already starting to unravel. His dunks are replaced with chronic truancy. Peter Vecsey drops a column in the New York Post alleging Kemp's drinking problem, quoting inside sources. Kemp's people have his teammates sign an affidavit saying none of them said anything." ---Seattle Times
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Well, since Petrie obviosly doesn't like dealing with youngsters with potential (Griffin/Tskitisvili/Swift/Etc.) how about a newly in-shape and life turned around Shawn Kemp?

Apparently he has worked extremly hard, and is looking close to Seatle Super-Sonic Shawn Kemp, and is "Going to play again."

Would a chance be in order? A veteran minimum, and a 13/14/15 man if it doesn't pan out.

I'm probably gonna be labeled crazy for this, but if he can return to a shadow of his former self, he could be a useful backup banger.
 
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Shawn Kemp?????? Are you kidding me?

Hey I am from SK's home town but ya know what, the guy is way past done and I would rather take Walker then this clown. That's not saying much and I would wager that we won't see SK in a Kings UNI anyday soon.

Man you guys are desperate...
 
I seriously can't believe this board's obsession with former Kings players. Scot Pollard? Really? You sure Waymon Tisdale isn't available?
 
Bricklayer said:
Nobody ahs any idea what sort of player he will be in the NBA. That's not a plan so much a a crapshoot.
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true. however, oberto is different story, perfect fit for kings....(but not for birck, not athletic enough)
 
starks said:
true. however, oberto is different story, perfect fit for kings....(but not for birck, not athletic enough)
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Indeed, so long as Peja and Brad are both here, we are between a rock and a hard place and in desperate need of athletes to offset and cover for them.

In any case Oberto is irrelevant as he's been signed by the Spurs, presumably to back up Duncan.
 
it would be nice to get tyson chandler, but i seriously doubt that happens

i;'m still holding out for a KG blockbuster ;)
 
if only we could get KG...if only

just a pipedream

anyway, alot of those options look good. pay any of them what they deserve, bring in barnes, sign price and resign evans and i will be tre-happy with our team....

hey, may as well bring songaila back in too :D lol
 
VF21 said:
I will say it again:

DENIS RODMAN!!!!!
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3 months after arriving in Sacramento, Rodman will be sighted in public wearing a grey polo shirt, tan shorts and loafers. It is reported that he wears nothing else. He is free of all piercings and has had his tatoos removed. He also develops and aversion to contact on court, sighting that it is too rude.
 
captain bill said:
3 months after arriving in Sacramento, Rodman will be sighted in public wearing a grey polo shirt, tan shorts and loafers. It is reported that he wears nothing else. He is free of all piercings and has had his tatoos removed. He also develops and aversion to contact on court, sighting that it is too rude.
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that's great. :D
 
Bricklayer said:
Nobody ahs any idea what sort of player he will be in the NBA. That's not a plan so much a a crapshoot.
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Sorry, I thought that was sorta the plan... grab a young PF and see if he explodes.

It looks like Dale Davis won't be back, he'd be alright on your bench.
 
Maybe i am the only one that dont hate Toine. I like him, but I dont like him since he wore dallas jersey. I like the former toine because I like talent, as simple as it sounds. My dreamt and realistic line-up, at the same time
bibby
Garcia
Stoja
Walker
Miller

I dont how Sac will manage to make Toine sign, but Just do it.
 
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baiarri said:
Maybe i am the only one that dont hate Toine. I like him, but I dont like him since he wore dallas jersey. I like the former toine because I like talent, as simple as it sounds. My dreamt and realistic line-up, at the same time
bibby
Garcia
Stoja
Walker
Miller

I dont how Sac will manage to make Toine sign, but Just do it.
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im accually agreeing with u on this one. I think walker would fit us nice n besides boston doesnt want him, may b if u send KT n some other contract say.... mo evns or DS or bth thn i think we will have a good team next season
 
baiarri said:
Why not could nerve and youth be strengths?
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If your name is Kevin Garnett or LeBron James, maybe. If your name, however, is Francisco Garcia, then I think you need to EARN a starting spot, not simply be handed one because you're young.
 
VF21 said:
If your name is Kevin Garnett or LeBron James, maybe. If your name, however, is Francisco Garcia, then I think you need to EARN a starting spot, not simply be handed one because you're young.
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Exactly, Kevin Garnet didnt start playing as a starter:D. The preseason is perfect period to earn the spot,,, who knows what fate will have on store¡¡¡ I prefer Bonzi as backup, but this is only my opinion, not a stiff truth
 
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