Westbrook Signs with the Kings

Good Move or Bad Move?

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It's almost like this franchise got a little upset about their ever-so-slightly improving reputation coming off the Beam Team season, and they've had to ramp up the Kangz™ activity in order to reclaim their mantle as worst-run organization in the NBA. Joe Dumars, hold our beer, please.
 
Just what we desperately needed, another vet guard to bury our youth on the bench!

I don’t have an issue with RW but I just don’t understand what we’re doing in a year I think we should be getting young guys PT and we are already clogged at the guard spot.

Guess we shall see how it plays out.
 
Any move that marginalizes the young talent on the roster to give Russell Westbrook minutes during a year that the Kings front office themselves have described as a "gap year" is unequivocally a bad move.
 
Seriously, why do this? Why do it at all, of course, but even accounting for the heaping dollop of Kangz™, why do this now? With training camp/preseason winding down and the regular season around the corner, with no injuries to the Kings' backcourt, what urgency was there to add another over-the-hill guard to the rotation who will eat up minutes? Now the Kings have to modify whatever semblance of a gameplan they've already constructed to account for a new rotation player who, like so many of the others, does not play defense and does not fit. It's... absolutely astonishing ineptitude. Is it a stealth tank? Is Perry hoping to create a roster so combustibly stupid that he forces Vivek into the rebuild that many of us want? Or is Perry just going to hit us with a bunch more motivational pablum about culture and how Westbrook exemplifies the hard-nosed attitude he wants this Kings team to possess? Dear lord... to be a fan of this team...
 
Capt. Factorial said:
Looks like we've got our new PF
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Was just about to post this. So long any opportunity IJ/Maxime had to establish themselves as NBA players and so long to any chance Ddvin Carter sees the floor.

Hell, probably so long to Nique in the rotation too. Either him or Keon get boxed out.

Whatever. Some truly had the audacity to complain about Monte and Brown and this is the result when the two adults leave the room. Vivek gets to run amuck without any responsible caretakers reigning him in
 
SLAB said:
IT ONLY GETS BETTER!!! 😍
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I tend to think of you as a one-of-a-kind here at KF.com. You've got a particular brand of coping mechanism for this team's ineptitude that I've never shared. That said, before too long, I may just end up joining you in trolling for the most ridiculous outcomes for this franchise. If they're going to lean into this level of incompetence, without an ounce of self-awareness, it's really going to test the limits of my sincerity as a fan. I'll have to resort to @SLAB-like ironic hate-watching.
 
The worst part is he had to have been guaranteed a huge *25+ MPG* role to ink. Theres no shot he'd sign to be the 11th/12th man in Sacramento.

I truly can't believe how far this org has fallen in 2 years. Best offense in basketball lead by 2 stars entering their prime with the COY and EOY power structure. To this.

Man
 
If we actually needed a backup PG and we we're about to have to roll with Pooh Jeter, then I'd get it. Westbrook is a decent backup at this point.

But we have a 2nd year lottery pick that needs to develop and a rising SG defensive standout that needs minutes. It just makes zero sense. Killing the value of your young developing players so you can hold on to the weak hope of making the play in? It's been 5 years since Westbrook was a needle mover. I don't get it.

The only thing that will keep me from jumping off a cliff is a fresh Scott Perry motivational tweet.
 
I’ll say maybe. It will no doubt eat into the minutes of guys I want to see get a lot of minutes. The fact that Carter was surely going to be in the doghouse anyway lessens the blow there, but still likely to eat into Clifford and Keon minutes.

But overall, I don’t mind having Westbrook.

I’ve grown into an admirer of his motor these last few years. Nobody works harder and plays with more competitive energy/passion than Russ even at his advanced age. Plus he immediately becomes the best backcourt playmaker on the Kings. He hits the glass. So there are a lot of positives here. He can change a game(for good and bad). All the things I mentioned were things that were missing when the Kings went to the bench.
 
The_Jamal said:
The worst part is he had to have been guaranteed a huge *25+ MPG* role to ink. Theres no shot he'd sign to be the 11th/12th man in Sacramento.

I truly can't believe how far this org has fallen in 2 years. Best offense in basketball lead by 2 stars entering their prime with the COY and EOY power structure. To this.

Man
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It's rough, man. Just rough. I never looked at the Beam Team and saw a championship contender. I did look at the Beam Team and saw a perennial playoff team that would improve and could get lucky with match-ups some day and reach the Western Conference Finals. The goal should have been to restore sanity and stability to the franchise, and to make it a fun and attractive and winning destination for future talent. To paraphrase Halt and Catch Fire, one of my favorite shows of the 2010s (and among the most underrated), the Beam Team was supposed to be the thing that gets us to the thing. Yet here we are, back firmly in Laughingstock of the League territory, clinging desperately to the hopes of making the play-in.
 
Caccia said:
You guys are totally misreading this move, along with the NBA punditry: it is intended to put fans in the seats and watching on television.

Winning? How quaint.
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Not sure who's watching the Kings on TV or showing up to the Golden 1 Center specifically for 37-year-old Russell Westbrook. In 2017 or 2018? Absolutely. As recently as 2022? Sure, he was still late-career electric during that season. But in 2025? That's some antiquated star-chasing and it's not going to pay off if the goal is to put fans in the seats. Westbrook can still be a modestly effective backup for a playoff team in need of a ballhandler. But for the play-in-or-bust Kings who should be prioritizing their young talent? It's a bad joke.
 
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