Front office coup drama 2025 edition

[Tetsujin]

Woah. "Monte's bag is analytics and draft. Wes does everything else"

on the plus side, Monte is continuing the lineage of Princeton dudes who are good at drafting but leave the other GM stuff to other people/the owner.

 

[The_Jamal]

Holy crap. Now he's saying Wilcox is staging a coup to get the GM spot

 

[Tetsujin]

My god. Rich Paul must really hate Wes Wilcox.

 

[Tetsujin]

I heard Wes Wilcox hit De’Aaron’s hands with a sledgehammer before the season.

 

[NewArena]

Sounds like Wilcox has been the issue. Eh, i don't know i guess we'll just see what happens

 

[SLAB]

Didn’t we just recently have a power hungry co-GM that tried to also stage a coup?

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Was it Dumars?

 

[Tetsujin]

Didn’t we just recently have a power hungry co-GM that tried to also stage a coup?

Vlade somehow getting out of it unscathed and immediately hiring Luke Walton lol

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Woah. "Monte's bag is analytics and draft. Wes does everything else"

just got to that part mind boggling

https://twitter.com/x/status/1884337144594112560

 

[Jdbraver137]

This is just Rich Paul spreading gossip and the local media fools eat it like dog food

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Holy crap why is the front office telling players the deals are done and don’t do it ****ing morons. Makes sense what somas said when the tmz guy asked him about the Derozan signing

 

[NewArena]

Didn’t we just recently have a power hungry co-GM that tried to also stage a coup?

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Was it Dumars?

Chris Mullin and like 6 other guys were vying for Vivek's trust and attention i believe. Weird times

 

[Tetsujin]

Didn’t we just recently have a power hungry co-GM that tried to also stage a coup?

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Was it Dumars?

There was the Joerger drama. Then Vlade cleaned house, sucked anyways, had Dumars try to replace him. And we managed to hired a real GM (we thought) after that.

 

[NewArena]

Feeling sick again smh. I'm so tired of this crap

 

[Tetsujin]

Dame trying hard to not outright say “Klutch is trying to force a trade”

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Conspiracy time I guess but wonder if Damien's rant after Brown's firing that it was all Fox was just a ploy cooked up with Rich Paul to whet the fans' appetite for moving on only to have it blow up when the Christie lead Kings blew up.

I don't know. I am still ok with a deal that is a huge haul and fills both immediate needs and long term potential but will miss Fox who is absolutely my favorite player that we drafted.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Conspiracy time I guess but wonder if Damien's rant after Brown's firing that it was all Fox was just a ploy cooked up with Rich Paul to whet the fans' appetite for moving on only to have it blow up when the Christie lead Kings blew up.

I don't know. I am still ok with a deal that is a huge haul and fills both immediate needs and long term potential but will miss Fox who is absolutely my favorite player that we drafted.

No haul is happening that dudes list is one team long right now can’t even put two teams against each other for a bidding war

 

[pdxKingsFan]

No haul is happening that dudes list is one team long right now can’t even put two teams against each other for a bidding war

Dude is under contract for a year and a half he can say things but he can't stop a team from making the bet. That's the main reason you do this now not 6 months from now. It's the gamble we made with Webber and other teams have also made successfully.

 

[macadocious]

Conspiracy time I guess but wonder if Damien's rant after Brown's firing that it was all Fox was just a ploy cooked up with Rich Paul to whet the fans' appetite for moving on only to have it blow up when the Christie lead Kings blew up.

I don't know. I am still ok with a deal that is a huge haul and fills both immediate needs and long term potential but will miss Fox who is absolutely my favorite player that we drafted.

Ya, I agree with this. I love Fox. He's a great dude. Loves the community has never wavered. He's an A- star. Best player since Weber to wear a Kings jersey. etc. etc.

 

[chief bromden]

Didn’t we just recently have a power hungry co-GM that tried to also stage a coup?

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Was it Dumars?

I think it was Brandon Williams or maybe that was just the coup to get Joerger out

 

[pdxKingsFan]

We've actually almost always had co-GMs with Vivek, the only revelation about Wes is that he may have had more power than anyone thought because they gave such a spotlight to Monte even to do public facing things he isn't exactly a star at.

 

[Tetsujin]

We've actually almost always had co-GMs with Vivek, the only revelation about Wes is that he may have had more power than anyone thought because they gave such a spotlight to Monte even to do public facing things he isn't exactly a star at.

That’s what happens when Wes is probably never getting an actual GM job by normal means anymore on account of him getting cancelled in Atlanta

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Dude is under contract for a year and a half he can say things but he can't stop a team from making the bet. That's the main reason you do this now not 6 months from now. It's the gamble we made with Webber and other teams have also made successfully.

We were never getting half the assets people on here were throwing out not only is he not a true franchise player his list will determine everything

 

[pdxKingsFan]

We were never getting half the assets people on here were throwing out not only is he not a true franchise player his list will determine everything

Well the good news for all of us is it looks like your theories are about to be tested.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Well the good news for all of us is it looks like your theories are about to be tested.

I just hope we don’t let Klutch push us around don’t send him to the Spurs send him to Miami

 

[NewArena]

Now it feels like we just lost 10 in a row or something after Keon just said vibes were immaculate. wtf is going on

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I just hope we don’t let Klutch push us around don’t send him to the Spurs send him to Miami

And if JJJ and Ware are in the deal I'll live with your Herro fantasy.

 

[NewArena]

This Wilcox person letting it slip to players that we’ve had deals in place and not getting them done is beyond gross. I can’t believe what I’m hearing

 

[Srzly]

I really hope this doesn’t happen. I don’t even see how it makes sense For the Kings or for Fox (unless I’m missing something).

 

[Capt. Factorial]

So, let me get this straight...

Another team called us with a trade offer for Fox, whose future here is kind of uncertain, and instead of hanging up immediately we listened and then subsequently placed a call to Fox's agent to discuss.

Media get bits and pieces of this information and immediately turn it into "STUPID KANGZ ARE SO DUMB AND THE ENTIRE FRONT OFFICE IS IN TATTERZ KANGZ KANGZ KANGZ"

Am I following this right?

Also, if we had just hung up instead of listening and the media caught wind then they would have said "STUPID KANGZ CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP FOX THEY HAVE TO GET SOMETHING FOR HIM BUT THEY ARE TOO DUMBZ KANGZ KANGZ KANGZ", right?

 

[sactowndog]

I have only one question for those who is up for trading Fox - what will happen if Monk will get injury? Or Deebo - who will replace with high quality the fox and injured person?

Monte picked a guard in the lottery when we already had Fox and Monk. He darn well better have faith in him