[Rumor] Shams: Kings a team of interest in Ja Morant trade
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Jesus no. He wants Miami send him there. Or to the multiple other teams. Oh, maybe that's just agent or team leak to make it sounds like there's a market. We're not buyers this year.
Perry can talk all he wants until he's blue in the face, but this is the exact kind of move Vivek has made over and over and over and over again.
I don't even know what a favorable deal for us would look like here? He adds another year onto the LaVine contract. I guess if you want to clean Monk/Dennis into 1 asset, but it doesn't subtract any money. I think we'll be able to get a positive asset from DDR and if not, we can clean his contract this off-season.
Unless we're getting assets with Ja (Cam? Cedric Coward? Picks?), stay far far away
I don't even know what a favorable deal for us would look like here? He adds another year onto the LaVine contract. I guess if you want to clean Monk/Dennis into 1 asset, but it doesn't subtract any money. I think we'll be able to get a positive asset from DDR and if not, we can clean his contract this off-season.
Unless we're getting assets with Ja (Cam? Cedric Coward? Picks?), stay far far away
A "favorable" deal would be Zach going their way, and a FRP coming back with Ja.
I'd be good with that. Add a year of the big contract for a FRP. Give Ja a chance to be C-Webb 2.0 and reinvent himself here.
My worry is the trade will look like LaVine+Carter+FRP for Ja.
Well, on the positive side, I do like Ja's chances of reviving his career in Sacramento a hell of a lot more than I would with him moving to Miami. Making a buy-low move on Morant certainly would be on-brand for a Sacramento franchise hell bent on being the worst defensive squad in the league for all of eternity. $42 million a year for a PG who is a career 31% three point shooter and could charitably be described as a below-average defender is a tough pill to swallow, whatever his other selling points. I guess .500 teams in Sacramento still sell tickets though so that seems to be the marching orders from ownership.
That would be it from Perry for me if we did that.
Tetsujin
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This would be better if we could turn Jaylen Wells into another pick (1st or 2nd).
The assignment is to end up with less SG not more!
Tetsujin
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Jaylen’s more of a wing than a straight up guard and KCP is really just a throw in to make salaries work at this point lol
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This might be a Webber style trade. We aren't signing a Ja player. At some point this team will have to buy low. If he's injured, you could park him for the year, finish tanking, get a top 4 pick then start ramping up next year. You'd have to nail it though, he'd have to buy in, and return to 90% of form.
At least those are the two current Kings that actually play that im least attached to.
I would think Memphis, considered the most dangerous city in America by some, not the best environment for a guy with a questionable past.
Our family would be happy to hear that Jaylen got traded to Sacramento. My son knows him - they are not "close"; more casual friends / acquaintances. He was in my son's Cub Scout group and my son played against him in AAU, if I recall correctly. But we'd be happy to have him "home".
Not saying another pick wouldn't be good either, mind you.
SacTownKid
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Is it though? It still just pushes back the inevitable and if there are betting odds on the Spurs getting a top 5 Kings pick in '31 I'm putting money down on that one for sure. 2 years to squander, 3 to get back to the starting line. Yep, we've seen a 16 year drought start the same basic way.
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I get this. And I am not saying that Jaylen coming to Sacramento would be a bad thing. No, not at all.
At this point, though, I'd much rather stock up on draft picks whenever possible.
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I'm not in favor of this, but just wanted to make sure you saw that WE are the ones getting a draft pick back because this is still centered around a draft rebuild.
SacTownKid
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The issue is the Kings don't have a Geoff Petrie calling the rest of the shots. That Kings team was lightening and not anything to follow. We have to realize that by now. It worked for way more reasons than just buying low on CWebb. All the moves lined up financially, draft wise, etc and the chances of the Kings pulling that off now are pretty slim. The common sense thing is what it is. Teams fighting for top seeds in the draft while having the 3rd oldest roster and unfavorable contracts are just mindlessly gambling if they think it's a way out. Make this trade and it could work, but it tells me no, Mr. Plan doesn't actually have a plan at all. It's more Vivek and co. throwing darts at board looking for the get rich quick scheme.
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SacTownKid
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Yeah, and I don't think purely landing a draft pick is the way to anywhere unless you know where that pick lands. The clear way to do it is with cap space if a team wants picks. Not this. This would be a trade that clearly commands a win now approach and no doubt that would follow. The Kings want a great draft pick? Hold onto your own as tight as possible and do what needs to be done.
I don't view as win now we'd probably sit Ja for the remainder of the year. Then he just replaces Russ next year. By then maybe he rehabs and you flip him as an expiring.
Again I am by no means in favor of this but I don't see Ja on this team as a winning player any more than Fox was from 2017-2022.
SacTownKid
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OK, but straight up, if the Kings are in the business of rehabbing value, BE WORRIED!! haha. Ain't gonna happen here. If a team is getting Morant you do so hoping a talent infusion pushes you up. Nothing more. Or at least that should be the goal. The Kings are masters at taking low cost stabs but it rarely has led them anywhere. It's officially time for them to put the pipe down. At least for a season or two.
Take Ja out of the equation and say you were able to trade Zach for a bad contract with one more year on it and a 2028 Memphis FRP.
Now I know that isn't even on the table and Memphis wouldn't do it, but you're telling me we wouldn't be happy to flip Zach for a future first?
gunks
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That's more like it! I cant really get mad at a "**** it, maybe they'll take Zach lol" offer.
iowamcnabb
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if Ja wants to revive his career, do it north of the border. Miami has the culture but they also have the culture.