Potential Free Agent/Trade/Sign Tracker, '25-'26 Season

[Caccia]

Where do you guys think Trey Lyles stands at this point? He was the only pure power forward left on the team at the end of the season, unless you include Isaac Jones. But a lot of times, he played "small ball" center.

 

[SacTownKid]

Where do you guys think Trey Lyles stands at this point? He was the only pure power forward left on the team at the end of the season, unless you include Isaac Jones. But a lot of times, he played "small ball" center.

Time to let him go. He's not a difference maker. This is where that development comes in and this summer is going to be the chance for the young guys to earn it. Jones plenty of times at various points already should have been taking Lyles' minutes. Hopefully this is Isaacs time to shine. This is why development is so important and why the good teams put resources and time into it. Petrie was always good at it too. As the older soon to be paid player starts heading towards the door, you have the cheaper understudy ready to go. Overpaying for 10th-12th guys on the back end is what bad teams do and it's time to finally stop doing that if you're the Kings.

 

[kingsboi]

An example of what? The Pacers are C average according to those placements, the Cavs being stacked in the frontcourt defensively weren't much better. It's becoming more clear that the key on defense is at G/F and specifically having guards that can play 2-3 positions on defense mainly at POA. The Cavs are kind of what they are and that's not necessarily the greatest at G. Is Domas the right guy for them? Who knows, but on paper you can't come up with a better combo than Mobley and Domas. On either end. That doesn't mean it would necessarily work but right now it sounds like the Cavs defensive frontcourt and Allen in particular is catching some blame for the loss.

teams on paper don't produce real life results. Turner is their anchor. The point of attack defense has another wall to score over if they get past the POA defense. Let's not forget he's led the league in blocks twice as well. Allen and Mobley is an acceptable frontcourt defensive tandem, it's their guards and forwards that did them in

 

[kingsboi]

That would largely depend on the money. If Kuminga tops out at what he's looked like then the Kings prospects moving forward as far as the cap are concerned don't look too great. The Kings almost can't afford the gamble at this point. Especially not until they move some salary off the books. Overpaying for other teams players when you are in the middle of nowhere is what gets teams into trouble. It could be a major win, or a major L depending on what Kuminga is and if the Kings don't start a rebuild for another season or two the Kings probably won't even truly know. Kuminga's better off going to a team that is starting from the ground up, not with where the Kings are at currently. There are too many ways that Kuminga's potential could be further minimized. Is he Harrison Barnes level? Or something more? One thing is for sure, without plenty of shots, he's closer to Barnes so far.

Kuminga is 22 with room to still grow with the young core the Kings do have, should they not be included in a bigger trade down the road. Kings have to overpay anyway for talent and he's one of those guys with juice left, getting away from Curry and Butler will do his development some good.

 

[KayDee55]

Just saw that the Pels might be looking for retooling.
I dont know if the pels do it, but Monk for Herb Jones would give them a scoring ballhandler, which they need, on a good contract, and we get another versatile defender next to keegan and keon.
Straight up trade monk-herb works in the trade machine.
Herb would fit what perry said about defense and toughness, too.

 

[SacTownKid]

Kuminga is 22 with room to still grow with the young core the Kings do have, should they not be included in a bigger trade down the road. Kings have to overpay anyway for talent and he's one of those guys with juice left, getting away from Curry and Butler will do his development some good.

That's why the best way to acquire that kind of talent is likely through the draft, not overpaying on the open market via trade or just cap space. Drafting talent gives teams 4 years of a low cost period of discovery. Paying for what you assume something is or will be is what this team consistently does, and that's gambling in the end. No more gambling unless the money is right. The cost of not being able to do something like this is the downside of the Kings consistently F'ing around when it comes to asset management, development, etc. The Kings are too far in the hole now. If it was something like DeRozan for Kuminga with similar money it wouldn't be the worst thing, but Kuminga would probably just take the QO for that kind of money.

 

[dude12]

Kuminga is interesting but one has to wonder why he constantly fell out of the rotation. Does Kuminga see himself as a DDR and is a ball stopper? Don’t think that is what Perry is looking for.

 

[KayDee55]

Kuminga is interesting but one has to wonder why he constantly fell out of the rotation. Does Kuminga see himself as a DDR and is a ball stopper? Don’t think that is what Perry is looking for.

Because he didn't buy into the system, which only hurt his team.
He has to be the system and while there are players that warrant building the whole system around them - he is far away from being one of those