[News] Kings and Schroder agree on three year 45 million dollar contract. No sign and trade

[SacTownKid]

If he really wanted to be vindictive they could renounce his rights. Then he's looking at MLE max with no sign and trade available.

What they do is drag this out to October if they want to be vindictive. As it is it's not appearing like the entire league is lining up to pay Kuminga. This is why the Kings could potentially get boned because the Kings also have no leverage via cap space. I really like Kuminga and he's the best option we've heard the Kings being interested in in a long time, but this has the makings of picking up another BAD contract in the end. If the wins come along then that will take care of itself, but if they don't? Again, there is a reason teams REBUILD. It simply reduces these risks.

 

[cwebb2002]

Just holding out as long as he can for the best offer. But I don’t hear much interest from other teams.

I honestly don't think they know what to do with him. If you are scared to trade him to this team, then you should probably keep and sign him

 

[Section 101]

What they do is drag this out to October if they want to be vindictive. As it is it's not appearing like the entire league is lining up to pay Kuminga. This is why the Kings could potentially get boned because the Kings also have no leverage via cap space. I really like Kuminga and he's the best option we've heard the Kings being interested in in a long time, but this has the makings of picking up another BAD contract in the end. If the wins come along then that will take care of itself, but if they don't? Again, there is a reason teams REBUILD. It simply reduces these risks.

If he was offered 5 year $150 and didn't take then this is all on him and his agents. There's no cap space out there and like we are seeing and the Warriors don't have to agree to a sign and trade. His reality where he has control is take the Warriors offer, take the QO and become unrestricted next year, or sign a MLE offer for 1 year then become unrestricted.

 

[cwebb2002]

If he was offered 5 year $150 and didn't take then this is all on him and his agents. There's no cap space out there and like we are seeing and the Warriors don't have to agree to a sign and trade. His reality where he has control is take the Warriors offer, take the QO and become unrestricted next year, or sign a MLE offer for 1 year then become unrestricted.

So why would he turn down $30M to ride the bench? Why would they offer him $30M to ride the bench? It doesnt add up for me. Was this really the offer extended or is what the warriors put out there to drive away suitors for him? I mean what they are doing with him doesnt make any sense outside of them being clueless with him or them being vindictive (and they have the best team over the last 10 years so not clueless). I think they are trying to paint him as a malcontent to drive business down. Why pay a guy 7-12M and say he isnt contributing to winning (pretty much sums up what Kerr said of him) but at the same time, make it very difficult for him to leave, AND not being active in trying to move such a money pit?

What they do is drag this out to October if they want to be vindictive. As it is it's not appearing like the entire league is lining up to pay Kuminga. This is why the Kings could potentially get boned because the Kings also have no leverage via cap space. I really like Kuminga and he's the best option we've heard the Kings being interested in in a long time, but this has the makings of picking up another BAD contract in the end. If the wins come along then that will take care of itself, but if they don't? Again, there is a reason teams REBUILD. It simply reduces these risks.

Problem is as i see it, no-one really has money except maybe Nets. He probably doesnt want to go there. Im ok if they try and take a big shot and actually try to win OR if they want to rebuild. But i cant watch them be one of these tweener teams for another few years where they have too much talent to get a top 3 pick, not enough talent to make the playoffs (top 6 - no play in) and have zero valuable assets that other teams would actually covet. They need to pick a lane. How is it everyone who comes to Sac forgets how to shoot (players) and forgets how to exec (GMs)?

 

[SacTownKid]

So why would he turn down $30M to ride the bench? Why would they offer him $30M to ride the bench? It doesnt add up for me. Was this really the offer extended or is what the warriors put out there to drive away suitors for him? I mean what they are doing with him doesnt make any sense outside of them being clueless with him or them being vindictive (and they have the best team over the last 10 years so not clueless). I think they are trying to paint him as a malcontent to drive business down. Why pay a guy 7-12M and say he isnt contributing to winning (pretty much sums up what Kerr said of him) but at the same time, make it very difficult for him to leave, AND not being active in trying to move such a money pit?


Problem is as i see it, no-one really has money except maybe Nets. He probably doesnt want to go there. Im ok if they try and take a big shot and actually try to win OR if they want to rebuild. But i cant watch them be one of these tweener teams for another few years where they have too much talent to get a top 3 pick, not enough talent to make the playoffs (top 6 - no play in) and have zero valuable assets that other teams would actually covet. They need to pick a lane. How is it everyone who comes to Sac forgets how to shoot (players) and forgets how to exec (GMs)?

For the reasons you stated above and because the Kings are always scrambling at the last minute to build an actual team along with recouping talent and using what little value they do have to do it. The Kings never rebuild, they RETOOL. Even when they're young they retool. The Kings were trying to win and Huerter was the exact type of grasp at straws while using too much value to get it that gets this team in trouble. The other unfortunately has been going for the immediate gratification of the classic older mid level PG as well. lol. Did Huerter forget how to shoot? Eh, once the blame gets placed it's usually on the player that isn't filling the need. Amazing, when he shot more times per game the shot seemed to come around in Chicago. The problem was the Kings were NEVER a Kevin Huerter away from anything once the league started to get better around them. The Beam Team wasn't some team full of players just waiting to blossom, they were topped out and ready for primtime.

Building around Fox this last time was a hail mary attempt because they didn't set their team up properly in his cheaper formative years and like this tried to cut corners when he was younger, it bombed, now in their mind it's time to immediately restock the talent supply on big money deals. This is exacly what has put them in a retooling mode because you're too good to be bad, not young enough or have high end young talent to develop, and are limiting your potential cap space to make major change from day 1. They do things like try and trade Devin Carter or Davion Mitchell or whoever before they have even developed or gotten a chance to create value. The Kings instead of building up talent tend to dump it for cheap in trade only to overpay for other talent on the market. Kuminga is a better gamble than usual but we'll see if it happens what the actual cost was if it goes down. If the Kings give up the best star package they can afford to give and he doesn't star, see you in 7 years, haha.