That’s a high floor and I hope you’re right. I can see the similarities with DC and those guys defensively, but one thing he has to prove is that he can be efficient enough from 3 that defenses respect his shot. That’s still TBD and a big factor of where his career goes.
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That’s a high floor and I hope you’re right. I can see the similarities with DC and those guys defensively, but one thing he has to prove is that he can be efficient enough from 3 that defenses respect his shot. That’s still TBD and a big factor of where his career goes.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
If he was Washington’s size we wouldn’t have drafted him
Jdbraver137
Bench
Ok saying those guys are the floor for DC, lmfao. Come on man.
Ok saying those guys are the floor for DC, lmfao. Come on man. We would be extremely lucky.
You're more than welcome to read the very clear edit where I walked back the "floor" comment
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
He'd be a good get but honestly, at this point just let Isaac get a real shot to stick. He's basically the same archetype anyway.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Same archetype and he’s shown a lot more feel on offense
Pass. He's the wrong kind of bet for us. Solid bench big for a good team, but there's no upside there. We don't need the 9th/10th man, 12.mpg types on this team. I want those minutes going to bigger upside swings that maybe could develop into something more
Joshyjosh31
Starter
I think a Sabonis for garland swap could happen next offseason if Cleveland fails but for monk how many unprotected picks would that include
Joshyjosh31
Starter
I’ll take a gap year being a kings fan and watch Jokic play I’ll watch the 4th quarters when we’re being blown out and the young guys are playing
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Figure out the money? How hard is it to figure out vet min. nothing more?
Joshyjosh31
Starter
Trying to overpay like they did for Schroeder
twslam07
All-Star
At this point, I’m open to Monk for Kuzma + a pick swap.
- helps balance the roster and clear out some of our guard glut
- opens more minutes for Carter & Clifford to develop
- we shed an extra year of Monk’s salary since Kuzma expires a year sooner.
- Kuzma’s contract expires the same year as LaVine, DeRozan, & Schroder setting us up for a lot of cap space in the 2027 off-season.
- get a future asset (pick swap)
- have someone halfway playable at PF now that Murray will miss some time
- do right by Malik by putting him on a team where he gets to play next to a Giannis/Turner frontcourt and has a path to start for them
- helps balance the roster and clear out some of our guard glut
- opens more minutes for Carter & Clifford to develop
- we shed an extra year of Monk’s salary since Kuzma expires a year sooner.
- Kuzma’s contract expires the same year as LaVine, DeRozan, & Schroder setting us up for a lot of cap space in the 2027 off-season.
- get a future asset (pick swap)
- have someone halfway playable at PF now that Murray will miss some time
- do right by Malik by putting him on a team where he gets to play next to a Giannis/Turner frontcourt and has a path to start for them
Caccia
Starter
According to the ESPN Trade Machine, this trade works one for one.
If the Kings are not going to run the Sabonis-Monk two-man game, or plan to trade Monk at the first opportunity anyway, this would be a good move. The team has been interested in Kuzma for years, and he is still only 30.
They are totally misusing Malik right now. The past three seasons, Fox would go out and Monk would come in to work with Sabonis. So far this year, Sabonis goes out, and Malik comes it to play alongside Schröder. Whose bright idea was that? He does not even have a big to pass to. Now both Schröder and Monk look out of sync.
In the first two pre-season games, Monk has a team worst -14, and Sabonis is right behind at -12. The only guy that is markedly improved is Zach LaVine at +8.5, tops on the Kings.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
Rockets need a guard we need a playable body over 6’6
Makes a ton of sense. They chose Jabari, they're going to want to keep KD till he retires, whenever that might be. But likely at least 2 years. Amen is extension eligible next off-season. Sengun maxed.
I'd throw Carter+FRP 2027 for him without question. Probably even unprotected. He's a flawless fit next to Keegan on the wing and he's the very rare defensive lynchpin 4 that can make up for some of Domas's short-comings on D. He's better than Kuminga, so at the very least, that offer should be on the table for him. HOU gets 3 years to figure out if Reed or Carter can take that PG job before paying either one and extra draft capital to retool in a potentially post KD-era around Sengun/Amen/Jabari.
Pretty damn quickly could you turn this team in a modern defensive powerhouse with huge size, length, shooting around Domas as the offensive conductor
Nique
Keon
Keegan
Tari
Domas
Nique would have to be "that guy" that he's shown flashes of all preseason, but damn that would be a fun team.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
Unprotected first is wild they’re not resigning him a first should be enough especially if they’re getting Carter who will excel there
Again "should" and reality are two different things here. It was the same deal for Kuminga; what we offered was more than "fair", but GS told us to go stuff it and held firm on their price. And here we are, right or wrong without Kuminga on the roster.
Sometimes you just have to make the determination if this is "the guy". Even if it's an overpay at the time, if Eason makes an all-defensive team, do we care that we gave an unprotected FRP vs a protected? Do we value building around Domas/Keegan, or not?
I think Eason is that guy. It's the perfect marriage of fit with our 2 core pieces and a dude with an incredible defensive upside this team hasn't seen since Artest.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
True but we were dealing with an idiot team that thinks Kuminga could get traded for Giannis. A first from us will be in demand I think that would be enough I’d do top three protected
The bigger question is, can GS manage to clear the 6 roster slots it would take to fit all of the Antetokounmpo and Curry brothers in their locker room at once? If not, there's little point in looking at hypothetical trade scenarios.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
OKC dilemma, whatever team trades for him will give him a starting role and swing on potential upside
twslam07
All-Star
Man I love Eason, but I struggle with giving up our future 1sts knowing we don’t really have a potential star, blue chip prospect at this point. We’ll need those picks to draft that type of player.
Perhaps a deal like this would suffice?
Devin Carter
2027 SAS 1st (Protected 17-30)
2031 MIN 1st (Unprotected)
For
Tari Eason
Gives them Carter who has 3 more years on his rookie deal and one unprotected 1st (and the possibility of another first if the Spurs miss the playoffs in the 2026-27 season).
On our side, we get a tremendous fit between Murray and Sabonis and keep all of our own future 1sts to give us a shot at drafting & developing a star.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Was thinking about my own post (man, am I a genius or what?) and…
Why the Kings do it:
A rebuilding move in which they get a good young big (albeit one who is on the verge of a big extension/new deal), a good wing/forward prospect in Ron Holland, and a big expiring deal in Tobias Harris (who the Pistons probably don’t want to take but this is just who I had to include to get the salaries to work), and Funcan Robinson who I just had to include to get the money to work (Beef Stew also works but I’d assume the Pistons would still want some sort of back up big depth). They also get the Pistons pick this year (in a strong draft) and in 2028 and the right to swap in 2027 on the off chance the Pistons suck worse than the Kings. Moving Malik also helps clear a bit more of a runway for Nique and Dev.
Next year, would look like:
Duren/Maxime/Cardwell
Keegan/IJ
Hypothetical high lotto pick stud rookie/Holland
Lavine/Keon
Nique/Dennis/DC
Why the pistons do it:
Domas gives the Pistons their second star to put next to Cade, who he would instant form an elite two man game with. Malik gives them a secondary release valve for Cade in crunch time since they lost Dennis and never really replaced him. I’m sure they’d hate to lose Tobias Harris but he was also on the last year of his deal and on the backend of his career.
They’d have a top eight of
Cade
Domas
Ausar
Malik
Levert
Ivey
Beef Stew
Sasser
That would probably be able to convince an ownership they could make a run in the east for the next couple of years since they’re apparently not very into Duren for some reason.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
I’d rather get Ivey over holland we need a lead guard and he flashed last year also we could add GSW to this and send them one of the first and Harris for Kuminga while taking out monk and adding Hield for Detroit
Would need to do this trade before Utah offered them Lauri
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Ivey’s a speed-first guard coming off a fairly severe lower body injury plus I feel like trading Monk for him just does nothing to clear up any sort of logjam the Kings have at the guard spot.
I’ve also been really high on Holland since the draft process so I might be letting that cloud my judgement.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
He’s still young regarding that injury I like holland as well but Ivey showed last year he could be a very good number two option I’d value that over what holland brings. I’d say we don’t have a long jam Schroeder, Westbrook, and Lavine shouldn’t be here in two years.
Section 101
All-Star
Kings would have to waive 2 players first.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
I honestly don’t blame the Rockets for holding off, he has been injured an awful lot so far and they have the Amen contract to think about
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