[Rumor] Domas trade watch 2026
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SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
That would have to be Monk going back at the very least. Having Monk and Quickly making 50 million plus in 2027 puts a steak in the heart of the most important part of a rebuild. And those firsts are going to be in the 20's. Big whoop.
Hoovtrain
All-Star
That’s about as good as you are going to get for Sabonis, agree on taking back salary though
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twslam07
All-Star
Yeah I’d be really nervous taking on all that long term salary at this point. I think something like…
Domantas Sabonis
For
RJ Barrett
Ochai Agbaji
Gradey Dick
Jamison Battle
2026 TOR 1st (Unprotected)
2028 TOR 1st (Unprotected)
…makes more sense. It keeps our cap situation clean (Barrett expires the same time as Schroder, LaVine, & DeRozan) and we pickup 2 unprotected 1sts. We’d have to waive 3 players but we have plenty of good candidates to choose from (Westbrook, McDermott, Saric, Eubanks, etc.)
The Raptors get their man in Sabonis without surrendering any core pieces. Poeltl could be used in another trade to help balance their bench a bit.
Actually don't hate a Matt George trade proposal for once. I'm also possibly irrationally high on IQ, which probably skews my view on the value here
But what would the compensation for this be? Would have to be multiple picks coming back you would think.
Wait. They want to trade their decent but maybe developing-long-term-injuries center for our really good center, and we're pushing back? Shouldn't we be throwing away our best players for scraps? That's what I seem to hear.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
RJ, Poeltl, CMB and 2 first round picks.
Well if we do some breakdown math here.
Keon=1 FRP. He's very likely to command this at the deadline somewhere
Taking Poeltl's money=at least 1 FRP. If you dealt an expiring for Poeltl, I'd probably want 2, but maybe 1+pick swaps?
Domas=Should be closer to 3-4 FRP, but I suppose if we take into account market, let's call it 2.
RJ is playing better this year, but he's a bit of a shot in the dark in terms of what he actually is. He's a good "buy-low" and still relatively young at 25, but you're still hoping for him to take a real leap into all-star/foundational player territory. Call it 1.5 to split the difference?
So I think for us to even "break even", with RJ+Poeltl being the primary pieces, I'd need at least 2.5-3.5 FRP worth of value on top. Whether that's broken up with Murray-Boyles, Shead, etc being included could be a possibility too. I'd probably require CMB if Poeltl is coming back
TaxMan
Starter
For some reason RJ Barret just sort of screams Harrison Barnes to me. A really solid player, does a lot of things well, but nothing great. I could be wrong, but seems like a solid guy but not an alpha. Solid defender, but not great. I wouldn't hate having him on the team, but not really a needle mover as a player.
I always get a kick out of going to basketball reference and looking at a player's similarity score.
I'm still intrigued by Margot Robbie but we'll have to throw in Ana de Armas or this just won't be worth my time.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
CMB ain’t happening
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Probably not but if I’m giving up Sabonis/Keon AND taking on a bad contract the price starts at 3 first round picks. If not I can trade Keon to one of the other 9 interested teams and hold on to Sabonis.
Kingster
Hall of Famer
If we get unprotected 1sts then maybe I could live with it. This deal where you get firsts but no chance to get even in the top 10 because of "protection" is BS. At least there should be the off chance that Toronto has a raft of injuries and the team holding the 1st gets a ton of ping pong balls.
Kings don’t have to trade Domas either. Technically, they don’t have to trade Keon either. Does Toronto want to make noise in the playoffs or do they want to just want to kick it down the street and next year. .
I dont know about that... I think there is a bit of pressure to not treadmill and try to get at these top picks and tank correctly which having Domas around makes a bit harder. And they can see we have some budding players at the position we might like to give more minutes too.
Might not be the same pressure to compete, or it somewhat may
ShastaKingsFan
Hall of Famer
They might try to unload Dick into this deal
He also took less money than he could have if he waited until FA to re-sign on the basis of us being competitive and building something here. Beyond just "tanking" it's doing right by a player who signed here when we thought we were something else.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
They’re not trading a rookie that’s on a trajectory to be an all defensive player by next season
Possibly, then they pay up with draft capital.
We're trading 2 extremely valuable players while taking on a good, albeit albatross contract in Poeltl. That requires a lot of value in return.
gunks
Hall of Famer
I'd be sad to see Domas go, and root for him wherever he ends up (Unlike a certain other snakey ex King), but I can't imagine he fits a rebuild timeframe or that he'd be interested in playing through his remaining prime years on a rebuilding team.
If we get multiple firsts for him and some intriguing young players that's a win, even if we take back a junk contract.
If we get multiple firsts for him and some intriguing young players that's a win, even if we take back a junk contract.
Why are we supposed to give up our best player for garbage? Why make a trade when we lose the trade? Toronto is going to have to give up something to get something.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
That contract is brutal. Teams are getting better firsts taking on far better contracts. If they want to trade 3 though that might get it done.
See_Hanks
Bench
Oh no no no no.. I would take the older version of Robie in Jamie Pressley and keep De Armas.
It's a weird phenomenon tbh.
First, Kings fans love bashing ownership, the GM into oblivion (which, deserved a good chunk of the time)
But then, they want us to be a AAA farm system for some of these teams and funnel them our talent without a proper return.
I'd prefer we get back to a place where we stop complaining about horrible deals we make and getting back to enjoy basketball.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
I also wouldn’t mind seeing what Sabonis/Cardwell/Keegan look like.
It's this guy again.
I thought he's a freelancer for the Suns. Keep posting these things with his blue-checked account like he's speaking facts, meanwhile providing zero citation.