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Potential Free Agent/Trade/Sign Tracker, '25-'26 Season
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QWERTYLICIOUS
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Prove it.
Now with Nico likely being fired there could be a deal with the Mavs to better balance both teams. The Kings need help in the frontcourt, the Mavs need a guard or 2 and have a surplus of bigs and forwards.
A team like the Bucks is where LaVine could excell in a situation that he’s never been in - behind a real #1 in Giannis, and a frontcourt of Giannis/Turner that could cover his defensive deficiencies. They have a real need for a scorer/shooter like LaVine as well.
Wait, we get Crazy Eyes and Crazy Sweater in the same deal?!?
OptimusRhyme
Jive Turkey
Yah for sure, and i think Domas would be great on the Raps sorrounded by all those long wings with Poetl backing him up. Plus theres a massive Lithuanian community in Toronto. Raps fans would love him.
Joshyjosh31
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Milwaukee isn’t entertaining this trade they’re giving up there bench bigs and would legitimately have no bigs outside Giannis and Turner.
BuddyBuckets
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This was the ideal move in the summer. Do we really want to try and balance this crap show of a roster at this point? Rather watch it crash and burn. I would do something like Schroder or Monk for Marshall + Hardy just to clear some room for Keon I guess.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
The Kings shouldn't either. There's no cap saving here in fact, they add long term salary.
Joshyjosh31
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We’d be getting a first forget cap savings
I’d drive Sabonis to the airport myself Hansen is a very promising prospect and the bucks pick is intriguing
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Cap savings > late firsts. You can get firsts with cap space by taking dead salary later if need be. There is a reason any GM worth their salt prioritizes "flexibility". The Kings are again unfortunately still late in the process. They've already had to re-sign Keegan and who knows what they pay Keon. Rookie contracts are the keys to building like the Thunder have but the Kings are already somewhat behind the 8 ball now. Odds are the Kings can't get out of all the big money on their books either but Domas should be the one if they can. DeMar isn't fully guaranteed next season right? And who knows if Zach opts out but probably not. Bench him and see maybe? lol.
If the Kings add salary but get a prize young prospect and a pick? That's a different story altogether.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I mean there is a way to rebuild the OKC way for the Kings but Kings fans aren’t going to like it (trading Keegan and Keon)
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Yeah, but that's also why Kings fans can't remotely expect to get the same kind of draft riches the Thunder have. They can still get some of those things but just have wasted too much time unfortunately. Prioritizing late 1sts by extending a potential cap space window isn't smart IMO. We saw last draft, you can get late 1sts, it ain't impossible.
LPKingsFan
All-Star
Ship sailed on building the OKC way when Fox went public with the single team trade demand (unlike Paul George). Unless Domas could land the the next SGA…
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I think we’ve seen this with the Jazz, who started their rebuild the same year the Beam Team was a thing and are still somehow at stage one of their rebuild four years later with the picks from their Mitchell and Gobert trades almost running dry and maybe two or three good prospects to show for it. It doesn’t help that they appear to have whiffed spectacularly on all of their lotto selections with Hendricks, Williams, and Ace Bailey all being different variations of the SacTownDog Special (long forwards with presumably spectacular standing reaches who don’t really appear to know how to play basketball).
Luckily for them Keyonte George has turned into really good player and Walker Kessler is a solid big man (who they refused to extend) but the biggest win of their rebuild has been Lauri Markkanen accidentally turning into a star six years and three teams into his career and that happened in year one of their rebuild and has done nothing to help them progress any further down the path to relevancy.
In other words, the main key to a rebuild appears to be (a) sucking hard and fast so that your own pick is in a position to take a swing on a potential franchise player, (b) emphasizing getting valuable picks over quantity (should be noted that OKC has accumulated so many picks that they literally can’t use them all which led to them essentially letting us use their pick to get Nique for free), and (c) pure luck (see the Clippers trading Shai to OKC as essentially cap filler only for him to turn into the league MVP).
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
And we know what Ainge is probably looking to do, shine up that youth and strike all at once again. It worked for him once so can't write him off but he's trying to catch lightening again. That said, that's how you do it. How you don't do it though is squashing all the youth into 20 mpg. He's platooning and not doing any favors for the youth he does have. Some of it at least is super duper young though. Bailey especially has a lot physical maturing to do. That's not the Kings. If Clifford, Carter, Keegan, etc. get an actual chance and start looking like rotation level players or a top 3 option in Keegans case, in the aftermath of this mess the Kings are all of a sudden going to go from looking like they have nothing to a lot and in reality it's just because they screwed those guys around to some degree.
Joshyjosh31
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GSW better have to pay a hefty tax
Well, first off, there's almost no wiggle room on what the parameters of such a deal have to look like this year.
Curry, Butler, and Draymond are off the table, so the Warriors have to send Kuminga, Moody, and Hield. The most FRPs the Warriors can send is 3 ('26, '28, '32) because they've already traded '30. They have literally zero SRPs to give. And presumably the '26 pick isn't going to be worth much, though '28 and '32 might be different stories, with all their big three currently expiring after '27.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Given how rough the Warriors have looked this season and their lack of depth after having to trade half their rotation for Domas, that 26 FRB could be another stab at the lotto this year.
Honestly... I dont think I say no to that.
Its still under Domas true value, but it think we are steadily approaching the point where the sell off needs to happen ASAP. We failed one of the best players this franchise has ever had, but id rather be a year early than a year late.
And youd get a real buy-low opportunity on Moody and Kuminga to see if they can flourish in bigger minutes/USG roles.
Obviously you shop him everywhere, but i think that's pretty close to the framework of what the trade needs to be. Heavy draft compensation and a young player or 2 as upside swings
I'd probably say yes to this just for the 2026 first round pick knowing how deep this upcoming draft is. But we'd have to find a third team to take on Kuzma. My heart can't handle trading LaVine for a guy who pretty much replicates all of his bad habits.
Meanwhile, while we talk about trading Domas and starting a proper rebuild, Vivek just wet himself with excitement over the proposal floated on the Ringer: https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/nba/anthony-davis-trade-rumors-updates-dallas-mavericks
AD for Lavine, Keon, and 27 FRP.
That trade is probably just enough to get us in play-in territory, but not be a real contender, while sacrificing Keon, a first round pick, and probably taking our 26 FRP out of the high lottery, and into the dreaded 10-15 range. The resulting roster (if AD could stay healthy) is probably the best you can do around Domas, and actually plays decent defense, but would be so short-term focused, while losing long term assets, that it is the exact thing Vivek would do. We could probably roll a balanced first and second unit as follows:
Domas-AD-Keegan-Monk-Russ, backed up by Eubanks-Precious-Demar- Nique-Schroder.
Good offense and defense in both units, and just enough to flirt with a first round exit.
AD for Lavine, Keon, and 27 FRP.
That trade is probably just enough to get us in play-in territory, but not be a real contender, while sacrificing Keon, a first round pick, and probably taking our 26 FRP out of the high lottery, and into the dreaded 10-15 range. The resulting roster (if AD could stay healthy) is probably the best you can do around Domas, and actually plays decent defense, but would be so short-term focused, while losing long term assets, that it is the exact thing Vivek would do. We could probably roll a balanced first and second unit as follows:
Domas-AD-Keegan-Monk-Russ, backed up by Eubanks-Precious-Demar- Nique-Schroder.
Good offense and defense in both units, and just enough to flirt with a first round exit.
This is my favorite scenario mostly because I want to see Draymond Green try to walk back all of the "I have no respect for Sabonis" talk from 2023. And also because Sabonis already has the house in Napa and wouldn't have to move.
I think Kawhi Leonard made a Paul George trade part of his contingency for signing that deal with the Clippers (the other part being paying him another $50 million under the table...) so OKC really lucked into SGA more than anything. The Clippers called first.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
I agree we can do better but this is a front office that wants Kuminga
Joshyjosh31
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I’ll be honest if we can get AD I can get behind that but Keon and one first round pick is an embarrassing offer.
Sabonis getting to play for his dad's former team seems like a win-win and the Milwaukee / Boston picks could end up being pretty good as neither team looks like they're trending up right now. And also there's the Murray brother dynamic duo which is intriguing and there's a decent chance that Jerami Grant opts out at the end of the 2026-2027 season if he can get a 4 or 5 year deal from one of the teams that misses out on the Giannis sweepstakes.
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