Dreadnought
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The guy was in the D-League and was even overseas for a while. Anyone could have signed him. Kings had him and clearly didn't know any better.
Hassan Whiteside...?!
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Nobody did. Whiteside said he called every team to try and get a training camp invite and was told no.
Dreadnought
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Right. Just answering the question asked by the poster. While the, "Everyone-the-Kings-Cut-Go-On-To-Be-Good" argument is a dead horse, it doesn't get any less disappointing when it happens.
KingsFanSince85
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I'm actually quite happy to see Mr. Whiteside making strides and doing so well. I advocated drafting him, as I saw him at Marshall and thought he'd develop into a really good player. I obviously didn't expect it to take 5 years or travel the road it has, but today we saw the player some thought he could be. I really hope he is able to keep it going. I met him at the Roseville Galleria when he and DeMarcus were introduced as rookies and he really is a good kid. Like Chad Ford was quoted earlier in this thread, Hassan was a very overconfident kid that wasn't quite ready to perform at the level he is performing now. Good to see he has matured and worked so hard to improve.
They can't now, but could have before the cat was out of the bag.
Now that was a performance that impresses Mister Slim!
KingsCitizen
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KEITH SMART SIGHTING WITH WHITESIDE
LOL!
I was looking at the highlight reel as well when suddenly I saw Kenny Natt near the end.
Damn you Miami! Please don't turn your team into Kings 4.0 in the 2 years time. LOL
Chupacabra
Starter
whiteside averaged a block every 2 minutes! WTF!!!! DAMN YOU INDIAN BURIAL GROUND!!!!
OOT but this made me laugh when I thought of the current anger at Vivek... No racism intended.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
netw3rk @netw3rk 1h1 hour agoHassan Whiteside is like a rawer Andrew Bynum if Bynum could go bowling without his legs falling off
LPKingsFan
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Man, not sure if the basketball gods could troll Kings fans harder than that picture of Whiteside and Smart. Amazing.
No. Faried and Chandler have both had 25. What interests me is that two Kings have had a twenty-rebound game this season, and DeMarcus Cousins is not either one of them.
I don't know that bouncing around to four different D-League teams, and Lebanon and China twice, before working his way back to the NBA, can reasonably qualify as "outta nowhere."
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Jeremy Lin had that one month stretch where he went from D-Leaguer to 30 pt, 10 asts guy when D'Antoni ran out of other guys to play.
Dime Dropper
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I'm really happy to see Hassan doing so well, but man does it hurt.
How nice it would be to have him on our team right now.
How nice it would be to have him on our team right now.
Big Cuz 15
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he was compared 2 the admiral during the draft
SCKingsfan
Bench
NBA most improved player. Ya think? just startling differentials, if he can maintain them
Section 101
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fixed it for you
ockingsfan
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You would want to wash your hands from what the Magoofs did to him when he was with the Kings.
I remember that they released him way too soon, at the beginning of his 2nd or 3rd season, so that his contract wouldn't become guaranteed. The Magoofs saved themselves a whooping $1.0 million on his minimum contract.
Way to go Magoofs.
I don't think anyone else is still on the team from when he was there, except for DMC and JT, and JT is not going to help recruit his replacement.
But if he is still friendly with DMC, maybe DMC can convince him to return to the team that drafted him, this summer.
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