Report: Kings finalizing sign and trade with Suns for Thomas

[sdballer]

Trade exception and bs draft rights

Another wasted asset

 

[Section 101]

oh no

The Kings will get an approximately $7 million trade exception and the draft rights to Alex Oriakhi, league source says.

Use the full source

Ken Berger ‏@KBergCBS 46s
The Kings will get an approximately $7 million trade exception and the draft rights to Alex Oriakhi, league source says.

 

[Andre CPA]

My goodness, I wonder who will come back in the sign-n-trade deal for Sacramento. I'm hoping for a Len, Plumlee, or Okafor. Highly doubt Dragic/Bledsoe is available.

 

[fansinceday1]

Sorry, dude, but you're out of your depth here. This has been going on for over a year. I resent you calling this a hate thread. A lot of our feelings - on both sides of the issue - have been boiling up for a long time. Lots of our game threads would be come totally derailed because of this crap.

Let's just let it go, okay?

There were a lot of games where IT was about IT and some people, me included, were tired of it.
No hatred involved. I'm gonna miss the little guy. He was instant offense in a bottle. He will do well in Phoenix.

 

[uolj]

What could it be for Bledsoe/Dragic maybe Plumelee?

As posted in another thread:

Ken Berger ‏@KBergCBS 10m
The Kings will get an approximately $7 million trade exception and the draft rights to Alex Oriakhi, league source says.

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

Worst sign-and-trade ever! We give up IT for that?!?! Wow................

 

[sdballer]

As I said in other thread, a completely wasted asset. If you didn't want to resign him, trade him at the deadline

 

[Bballkingsrock]

Just lost a big asset. I really hope we use that trade exception for something good

 

[KingMilz]

As posted in another thread:

https://twitter.com/KBergCBS/status/487724665465753600

O wow we got nothing in return another "awesome"move by management

 

[Section 101]

Ken Berger ‏@KBergCBS 1m
The Suns front-loaded the offer sheet with a starting salary of $7.2 million for Thomas and it went down from there, source says.

 

[sdballer]

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 1m
Hung out with a bunch of people from all over the league last night in Vegas. No one has any clue what the Kings are doing.

 

[Prog]

Works for me.

Really? That's like giving him away for nothing.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Wow. And i was one of the people who wanted to see IT leave. What the hell is this S&T though? weak

 

[Andre CPA]

Ken Berger @KBergCBS
The Kings will get an approximately $7 million trade exception and the draft rights to Alex Oriakhi, league source says.

 

[annihilator_33]

I hope to god something else is in the works.....I'm floored that that's all we got back

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

We just gave away our third best player for some cash and a no-name who'll never see a minute of NBA action. What the heck is PDA thinking??

 

[Hallama]

All it will really take is a S&T with SAC for a crap PHX player (or 2nd round, protected) and to give SAC a TPE.

Heh, I called that one...lol

 

[Hallama]

TPE's can be valuable IF you use them. Next offseason (I know, I know) the Kings will have a lot of weapons to use. Cap space, and now this TPE.

 

[upinsmoke]

WHO?

 

[Hallama]

We just gave away our third best player for some cash and a no-name who'll never see a minute of NBA action. What the heck is PDA thinking??

More like Collison + crappy player + TPE...

 

[sidney]

We're pretty fortunate to walk away with a trade exception

 

[Dreadnought]

Can anyone explain to me in laymen's terms what we got out of this?

 

[sidney]

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 1m
Hung out with a bunch of people from all over the league last night in Vegas. No one has any clue what the Kings are doing.

Zach and Bill Simmons bash every single move the Kings make. Nothing to see here

 

[Padrino]

hm. once again, i have to point to last season's trade deadline and say, "why not then?" that was the time to trade isaiah thomas, when you could get a useful player asset in return. a trade exception could be valuable down the road, but it's just another "what if" to throw on the pile in the meantime. anyway, so long, IT. wish you could have stuck around as a sixth man; wish you could have stomached it...

 

[MANoICE]

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 1m
Hung out with a bunch of people from all over the league last night in Vegas. No one has any clue what the Kings are doing.

I am losing confidence in this front office rapidly!

 

[ElRey]

I'm not sure what you guys are expecting in a S&T for IT....we have absolutely no leverage as everyone knows we're not going to match. The trade exception might turn out to be useful.

 

[SacKings384]

A trade exception is what we got. Essentially when you trade for another player when you're over the cap, your salary has to match within 10%.

So say we trade player x for player y and both teams are over or at the cap:

Player x on Kings - $5 mil/year
Player y on Mavs - $13 mil/year

This wouldn't be possible. HOWEVER, with the trade exception it is.

Player x on Kings - $5 mil/year + $7 mil trade exception ($12 mil total)
Player y on Mavs - $13 mil

They are within an acceptable range. Salary accepted.

 

[sdballer]

Eric Koreen @ekoreen about 9 minutes ago
I'm not sure what the Sacramento Kings are doing, quite honestly.

 

[Mass]

A f*****g trade exception?!? I wasn't one who wanted IT back, but this is the worst we could do. I don't know what to say.

 

[peacelate]

I'm not sure what you guys are expecting in a S&T for IT....we have absolutely no leverage as everyone knows we're not going to match. The trade exception might turn out to be useful.

Exactly. This is pretty much the norm for sign and trades.