As for "lack of purpose", some people seem to think that the only thing that counts as purpose is to blow up the team and rebuild from the ground up. The problem with this is that the Kings were stuck with players whose skills are rapidly declining since the glory days but whose contracts are not. Webber, Bibby, Brad Miller are/were all players with little trade value because of the size of their contracts. Peja was the player with the most trade value, and the Kings got Artest out of it. The true mistakes made in the last few years were signing guys like SAR and possibly Moore to mid-level contracts, but these were only minor mistakes. Saying the Kings didn't do enough to rebuild begs the question of how the Kings could've gotten rid of their salary-cap albatrosses, and really the only trades I've heard of that would be serious rebuilding moves belong in the category of those pie-in-the-sky trade scenarios fans always seem to think a team should've made.