The Official All The Trades/Moves INFORMATION Thread

[LPKingsFan]

Good thread.

I've acually come around to the past few days's dealings. No fireworks, and not what I suspected or wanted, but solid moves. Nocioni's contract is bad, but I like his toughness. Remember when we were known as the "Young and Relentless" Sacramento Kings (or at least that's what the t-shirts handed out at ARCO said)? Well, we've been young, but soft and lacking identity. Now, we've moved out two vets known for pouting when things weren't going their way, and for dominating the ball at times. Hopefully, we can move forward as still a young and developing, but hardworking and scrappy, squad. I agree with VF and nbrans, while this team may not win a lot of games, and will arguably lose more, it will be more fun to watch. Which is exactly what you want out of a rebuild.

I'm intrigued by McCants and Diogu. I want to like Ike but understanding that this is his 4th team, I'm skeptical. But undersized guys have carved out roles in this league as hustle defenders off the bench (most recently Millsap, and the Boston duo) so maybe he can do something. McCants, like has already been said, is a knucklehead. But maybe he'll be a better fit here, a major upgrade from Douby as a scoring SG/PG off the bench. That would work for me.

 

[Superman]

Move #6:
Kings granted cap relief for Shareef Abdur Rhaim by the NBA

What does it mean? -- almost lost in all the trading shuffle the Kings won an important little victory here. Basically the NBA had a doctor certify that Shareef's knees had indeed ended his career, and because of that now the final two years of his contract (2yrs $12.8mil) come off of our salary cap, while his salary is paid by an insurance company rather than the Maloofs. Its as big a savings as any of the moves we made for ending contracts.

I missed that. I knew we had filed, but didn't know it had been resolved already. That's huge. (Also cements one of Petrie's most notoriously boneheaded moves in the past four years as completely boneheaded, no two ways about it.)

Now, all we have to do is send a menacing letter to the other teams in the NBA threatening them with legal action if they play Reef more than ten games in the next two seasons. Then we'll be on the fast track just like Portland.