Kings free agency, part 3

The_Jamal said:
Good deal, but Koufos is a lot better. We don't need to bargain hunt
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Koufos is a fine player, if we're actually chasing him I can understand that. For the time being though there are productive bigs disappearing from the market on affordable deals while we're sitting on $11-12 million in cap space and looking at starting the season with Eric Moreland and Willie Cauley-Stein's combined 1 minute of NBA playing time as our entire frontcourt depth. Koufos would be a real nice addition but we haven't fared well so far with free agents other teams are interested in.
 
KingMilz said:
This is completely out of left field but is Emeka Okafor still alive? He has not played for 2 years I think I wonder if he can still play and could come back "fresh"'
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It's an interesting question. If we're looking for another risk bargain, could be worth exploring
 
hrdboild said:
Koufos is a fine player, if we're actually chasing him I can understand that. For the time being though there are productive bigs disappearing from the market on affordable deals while we're sitting on $11-12 million in cap space and looking at starting the season with Eric Moreland and Willie Cauley-Stein's combined 1 minute of NBA playing time as our entire frontcourt depth. Koufos would be a real nice addition but we haven't fared well so far with free agents other teams are interested in.
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The good news is that between the Knicks signing Lopez and the Lakers trading for Hibbert, there aren't a lot of teams out there that want him and have the cap space.
Clippers might be able to arrange a S&T for him, and Portland might want him at center- but there aren't a lot of starting center openings right now and we can offer him a good deal.

EDIT: come to think about it- the Pacers now have cap space, and no starting center (or PF after West leaved) I think they could possibly be our major competition, though I haven't heard that they have expressed interest in him...
 
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Amit149 said:
The good news is that between the Knicks signing Lopez and the Lakers trading for Hibbert, there aren't a lot of teams out there that want him and have the cap space.
Clippers might be able to arrange a S&T for him, and Portland might want him at center- but there aren't a lot of starting center openings right now and we can offer him a good deal
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Another team that has been relatively quiet and may be looking for a center is Boston. They have tons of cap space too.
 
ShastaKingsFan said:
Does he have any ball handling "lead guard" skills? I'll be interested to see his game
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He handles the ball fine, but sadly he's a shooting guard in a PG's body. He would be more suited as a sixth man off the bench. Similar to what Lou Williams does. He's very good at getting to the basket and finishing as well. Who knows, maybe he's been hiding his PG skills.
 
bajaden said:
He handles the ball fine, but sadly he's a shooting guard in a PG's body. He would be more suited as a sixth man off the bench. Similar to what Lou Williams does. He's very good at getting to the basket and finishing as well. Who knows, maybe he's been hiding his PG skills.
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I have high hopes for Hawkins but they are in the long term. I think he spends most of this year in Reno but I think in time he could possibly be an Eddie House type player.
 
ShastaKingsFan said:
There's a decent chance that will have a go at the Warriors in a 1 vs 8 or 2 vs 7 seed matchup. Would be good to see that rivalry get pumped up
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Lol let's worry about adding more depth at SF PF and C before we worry about our first game...we shouldn't utter the word playoffs. Let's revisit this in February.
 
Is anybody talking to josh smith? Saw a tweet earlier in the week that we were. I haven't heard anything since from any team
 
Entity said:
I like to finish up with Tobias Harris and Jordan Hill. Or josh smith and omri casspi
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We offered Harris the max... he returned to ORL.... I was on board with Harris... bummer .... He had issues with Skiles so I thought maybe he wanted out and they would let him go.
 
Entity said:
Is anybody talking to josh smith? Saw a tweet earlier in the week that we were. I haven't heard anything since from any team
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I've been looking all over and the only thing I found was the same tweet that you are referring to. So far the Kings have been the only team that has been linked to Josh.
 
steelevt said:
Harris out. Back to Orlando.
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Ok so SF's are becoming scarce. Better lock up casspi quick then get josh smith

Frontcourt rotation of Gay,Casspi,Smith,Cousins and WCS looks good if possible maybe still get Jordan hill in there
 
Just a quick thought on the Casspi front. So right now we are about $10-12 million under the cap but also will have the lower level exception of $2.8 million once/if we hit the cap. The NBA seems to have very strict guidelines when it comes to the CBA and some of the clauses. The Kings don't officially obtain the exception until the cap is reached. Is it possible that we can't announce anything regarding the player (Casspi) that we are going to use the exception on until we have officially reached the cap? I mean we could always end up using $2.8 or so of the cap space for Omri but we also would probably lose some leverage with the agents that we are negotiating with since they would know that we plan on using our full amount of space.
 
Lakers are picking up Hibbert now so I'm assuming they're out of the Koufos game. We should get him before the clippers do.
 
Jojimbo said:
Lakers are picking up Hibbert now so I'm assuming they're out of the Koufos game. We should get him before the clippers do.
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I read clippers looking at javale McGee and amare. But you never know who else is trying to get him. Some people wanted o'quinn but he's off the market now. I'd rather get our last big in free agency and resign casspi and call it an offseason
 
iowamcnabb said:
Have the Kings been linked to Koufos? He just doesn't seem to fit what the kings say they are looking for.
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I read some blurb on Hoops Hype the other day about us being interested in him probably not too reliable though. I think he would be useful if we had a match up where we didnt have to have much athleticism. Had a 50% FG last year as well. That said, I think we'll sign J-Smoove and resign Casspi and call it an off season.
 
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I think he's wrong about the Kings, though. Also most likely forgot Boston, but this gives us a decent idea of how things stand currently
 
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I like how quiet it is right now, and we had no idea about the Tobias offer

Vlade doing a great job of getting things done quietly, or at least trying to. Maybe he picked up a few things from the
great Petrie
 
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