[KINGS] Comments that don't warrant their own thread (2025-26)

pdxKingsFan said:
Regardless of what both teams did last season, I'm pretty sure the Kings would say the same thing to Paul today. By all accounts he was trying to engineer Zach to Atlanta earlier this year and we shut it down.
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I would agree. But it what we should have told him re Fox.
 
sactowndog said:
I would agree. But it what we should have told him re Fox.
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I struggled with it at the time (though I'd not have settled for what we got back). Hindsight and all, I'd have Fox at home eating cheetohs right now rather than try to deal with Zach.
 
So I was just looking through some past drafts and something jumped out at me about the 2014 draft.

Selected 11th overall: Doug McDermott
Selected 12th overall: Dario Saric
Selected 13th overall: Zach LaVine

Thankfully #10 Elfrid Payton and #14 T.J. Warren are out of the league, so Perry can't get tempted to REALLY get the gang all back together.
 
iowamcnabb said:
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Iowa Hawkeyes beating the Michigan Wolverines in the wake of the tragic death of Chris Street, a player. Keegan’s dad Kenyon help beat Webber’s fab five.

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Keegan’s brother is also named after Chris Street
 
Sochan would be a low risk pickup. get him a shooting coach that hasn't worked with Sabonis and have him shoot mid range and push shots until his arms hurt
 
coolhandluke said:
We have around $1M tax space left. Not sure how we can pick Sochan without going into tax space.
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i have a question about nba scheduling.

we know that there is much concern about "resting" star players.

this often takes place on one end of a back to back.

yet at the all-star break, every team gets seven (or eight) days off (no games, except all-star weekend).

28 teams play on the wednesday before the all-star break

on thursday, dallas plays the lakers (they are the two teams that did NOT play on wednesday)

there are two other games on that thursday (teams on back to backs)

then everyone is off for 7-8 days (most get seven days off)

back to action on thursday 2/19, (10 games - the six teams that played the previous thursday are off, so, the CBA must be structured to give the players seven full days off).

question: does the CBA say that no games may be played on the days preceding thursday 2/19?

because if the problem is, "too many back to backs", leading to "rest" days", WHY would the league NOT schedule games for mon-wed (2/16 - 2/18)?

the "reason" seems to be that the nba has agreed to give players seven straight days off (i guess so they can meet up on a caribbean vacation)

but players get MONTHS off AFTER april (or june if you are in the playoffs), which seems to be a LOT of vacation time.

WOULD players "give up" that "seven days off in february" (trading it for "four days off") IF the commissioner paired it with a promise to completely eliminate ALL unequal back to backs?

cynics will say, "the players are NEVER "giving up" ANYTHING (this is WAR).

but given a CHOICE (less days "off" at the break in trade for NO MORE unequal back to backs during the season), what would they choose (especially if "resting players" brings penalties - one of which is to eliminate players from postseason awards if they "miss" too many games))?.

the players (who are not participating in the all-star games - there might only be 10-20% of the players participating) would all get FOUR days off (thu-sun for those who finished the previous wednesday, fri-mon for teams who played the preceeding thursday). a quick trip to cabo rather than a week in barbados

play would resume on monday, 2/16 (today), with 8 games (w/16 teams who did not play thursday). you would try to anticipate which teams would not have all-star participants, the bottom dwellers (including the kings), and schedule those teams for the monday games.

the other 14 teams (7 games) would play on tuesday (including the six teams who played the previous thursday)

same 16 teams play on wednesday (and friday), same 14 teams (7 games on thursday (and saturday). you just switch opponents.

now you have most teams playing an extra two games at the end of the break (with no back to backs), so, you can have less back to backs during the regular season.

plus, the nba takes in more revenue from the extra games on days that otherwise are nba-free.

it seems easy to do.

the way it is now, you have 10 games on thursday (2/19), 9 games on friday, 6 games saturday and 11 games sunday.

naturally, there are going to be back to backs over those four days, at least 4 of them on thurs-fri.

so, would players give up three "vacation" days if unequal back to backs were eliminated?

or am i being "too logical"?

(of course, the "emirates cup" presents a scheduling problem - why not a "shorter" cup season, possibly even hold the all-star game in two places at once - LA AND the Emirates (you would think they would like THAT) - and leave the regular season alone?

Unequal back to backs MUST be eliminated (unless you enjoy buying a ticket and not knowing who is playing that night)
 
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