The McLemore thing is tricky, because you'd want to trade him while his value is highest, and I can't imagine it getting any higher. That said, he is a nice kid, and it'd sure stink to get rid of another young player, just before he finally puts it all together.
Well, maybe not so very tricky if you tease it out. Given how many bodies we are stacked with at the position NEXT season, and his limited trade value THIS season we are really under no pressure with Ben, either to trade him or keep him.
Ben McLemore has been a primary component in the Kings suck for 4 long years. He's now played 5 mostly good games. He's done similar things in the past with no appreciable longterm development.
Now the latest tease is just before the trading deadline, but what we KNOW is that we already have Garrett Temple, Malachi Richardson, and Bogdan Bogdanovic in the organization and ready to takeover next year.
So, what Ben's surge really means is:
1) if it sputters again before the trade deadline, then you don't worry about trading him at all, its Ben being Ben, and good riddance
2) if the better play continues on, what it should really do is just mean you don't search for a 2nd round pick sort of dump deal. Ben has been such a bust you may not be able to get one anyway, and would normally consider yourself lucky. But if he's going to flash something, then maybe you don't do the dump move at this point. A 1st, sure. But not a second, not a cut. 30 more games in the season, see if Ben can sustain anything.
3) On the other hand, since we do know we will have Temple, Malachi and Bogdan, ALL of whom could individually be more valuable than Ben has ever been to us, you continue to make him available as part of larger packages that could patch a real hole for us at the deadline. In that case any surge Ben has ups his value and helps us.
Ben's a pure luxury item for us at this point. If he plays well we can afford to play him the remainder of the season with minimal damage to any development or opportunity lost via trade. If he plays poorly we can dump him and forget he was ever a King as soon as next season with all the new kids and Temple's scrap. There's really not much downside to the situation for us. If he had great trade value, then not trading him would be worrisome. If we had nobody to take the position next year, then trading him would be worrisome, or at least an adventure. But the situation is exactly the opposite now, so we're fine.