Next trade: Sacramento/Orlando?

[VF21]

If you look at it, Miller, KT, and SAR can get us a superstar bc of those big expiring contracts. We just need to get a core of young guys.

And that could easily be the idea. But don't expect too many people to agree with us.

 

[SacKings7]

And that could easily be the idea. But don't expect too many people to agree with us.

I guess I agree, but expiring contracts alone (usually) don't land star players, they just help match salaries. We'll probably have to trade a player or 2 still on a rookie contract along with the expirings to get a superstar thru a trade

 

[ParniValjak]

The whole "we should have traded Brad Miller now because he's playing so well and getting old so fast" is ridiculous. The only team likely to pick up Brad at this point in his career is a team that does so because they are looking to make a run right now. If there was team looking for what he offers this year, and was willing to give us something, i'm sure he'd be gone. And the fact is that they are just as likely to do so next year, or the next, almost regardless of the relative +/- on his point and rebound production (assuming he does not fall off ridiculously). It's not his althleticism that gives him market value anyway, and if he's fairly injury free in the next couple of years, he'll go as easily as he might have this year. If we are realisitcally thinking toward 2010, I don't see any big hurry with him. Watching him play as a king in the meantime is not a problem for me, assuming Hawes gets the increasing minutes he deserves on the floor.

I am sorry but as much as we hate to admit it, the player's worth in a trade flactuates based on his performance. This time last year no team would touch Miller with a 10 foot pole. Not even the teams that were making their run for it. Its because his output on the court wasn't good enough for his contract.

This year, there were teams that were interested. Specifically Orlando, whose GM Otis Smith publicly said that he spoke to the Kings regarding Miller but the only thing we wanted off their roster was Hedo.

If Miller plays next season in the same sort of fashion that he played under Musselman then we have a MAJOR problem on our hands. He becomes KG like in that he is just unmoveable and we are stuck with his contract until it expires. And if we wait for that, we wouldn't have some $13million in cap space in the 2010 free agency period.

Miller is over 30, has always been on the slow side and never athletic and I don't think its unreasonable for people to beleive that his production will go down in the next couple of years. Especially if he keeps logging as many minutes and battling inside on his own like he has been this season.

I am a Brad Miller fan and I have thoroughly enjoyed watching him play but if there was a chance that we could trade him for expirings and draft picks, I think the smart GM in a rebuilding mode would pull the trigger on that trade. If we pulled the trigger on K9 a couple of years ago we wouldn't have been in the sort of mess that we are in now with him! Same goes for Miller and anyone else over 30.

 

[Vlade4GM]

I think it's painfully obvious that the kings FO still have their priorities all out of whack, they don't understand the big picture and that's going to be what keeps us in mediocrity for a long time to come.