NBA Draft 2025 Open Thread

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938015760363774320

The Duarte trade strikes again!

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938016304926958040

 

[Kingster]

Yeah but the alternative is what we've been hearing. MLE 30 year old PG's and transitioning lateral moves to win now into lateral youth moves to still not win, lol.

This is where it gets interesting. Blow it up with a MOAB? Surgically blow it up with a couple of well placed grenades? Run it back with a "point guard"? Add one or two geriatric types to DDR and Lavine for one last gasp to get into the playoffs? What is the strategy? That's what I want to know.

 

[Turgenev]

Does anyone have any suggestions for daft coverage I could listen to? Friendly to international ppl who have to work at the same time?

 

[SacTownKid]

The problem with running it back and waiting to identify if it can work or not, it can’t, is that all the shots are going to DDR or Monk or Lavine with Domas cleaning up or getting the occasional game where they feed him because of matchups.

That means Keegan, Keon and Carter can’t grow their game. And of those 3, I’d really like to see Keegan get a chance.

One half of a season isn't killing their potential. If the Kings are even a .500 level team once the season gets going they need to just bite the bullet. Isn't this all about rings after all?

 

[Tetsujin]

Does anyone have any suggestions for daft coverage I could listen to? Friendly to international ppl who have to work at the same time?

Sam Vecenie (by my estimation the best draft guy out there today) has a livestream going in a few minutes

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938017314886029538

 

[SacTownKid]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938017314886029538

I'd much rather Perry go after a high 2nd rounder. The gap between the 20's and 30's is tight according to most mocks unless someone like Coward drops.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

Here we go, folks! "D-Day" is finally upon us! I won't be active on here until later in the evening (post-draft), as my laptop is at one end of the house, while the television is on the other end.

Here's to being a disappointed Kings fan over the next handful of hours, because, well, you know...
What else are we supposed to be doing during this time???

 

[The_Jamal]

Ham like most of these guys don’t do there research on prospects is the correlation. Hell I’d take Ham over Arenas and the Morris twins who somehow have a job at espn, that network is dumpster fire.

Except Arenas, especially, is meant as entertainment. Ham is pretending to be a source

 

[The_Jamal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938014254017179842

**** it… Go get us Obi Toppin.

Was Perry still in NYK when they drafted Obi?

 

[Caccia]

I gotta be honest, I'm not a transaction geek, and I don't pay attention to college ball, so the draft isn't really relevant to my interests. If the mod staff weren't short-handed for covering this thread tonight, I'd be doing something else.

Taking one for the team, I see. So far, not a single important trade today in the NBA, with eight minutes to go, and not a single player personnel move of any kind from Scott Perry since he was hired. Boring.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938022698938208361

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Here we go, folks! "D-Day" is finally upon us! I won't be active on here until later in the evening (post-draft), as my laptop is at one end of the house, while the television is on the other end.

You should invest in one of those portable computer thingies.

 

[Tetsujin]

Vecenie feels like there are going to be a bunch of trades today

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Here we go, folks! "D-Day" is finally upon us! I won't be active on here until later in the evening (post-draft), as my laptop is at one end of the house, while the television is on the other end.

I feel like you're using your laptop wrong

 

[SacTownKid]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938022698938208361

Tonight does the new Kings motto become, "Diversity of thought, devoid of common sense."?

 

[Tetsujin]

Do something crazy and draft Ace with the first pick, Nico!

 

[jiimbob]

Do something crazy and draft Ace with the first pick, Nico!

Please don’t. Then Cooper goes to SA.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Why the **** is Perkins on the panel and the other chick

 

[Sluggah]

Yeah, let’s cut to Dallas’s draft room, full of dudes who had to put in zero thought for their pick.

 

[SacTownKid]

Please don’t. Then Cooper goes to SA.

Who cares at this point. They're likely blocking out the sun in the West at some point anyway. haha.

 

[Tetsujin]

Yeah, let’s cut to Dallas’s draft room, full of dudes who had to put in zero thought for their pick.

Don’t overestimate Nico Harrison lol

 

[Tetsujin]

Shocked the Mavs picked this Flagg kid. Shocked

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I guess I'll get my annual "I hate Dukies" out of my system right now.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Future laker cooper Flagg

 

[Tetsujin]

Future laker cooper Flagg

Austin Reaves gonna look fire in a Mavs jersey

 

[Caccia]

Don’t overestimate Nico Harrison lol

Or is that "underestimate"?

 

[pdxKingsFan]

This really what we can expect for the post-pick interviews all night?

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938027406339580039

lol