Bagley doesn't have this kind of value. The pick is also small potatoes; once you're dealing with picks that high its a tall order to even move up a few spots.
Organizations don't trade Top 3 picks for depreciated 3rd year prospects on the fast track to becoming a bust. They'd usually much rather take a chance on the mystery box. This was also just some musings from a Warriors beat writer; I doubt the organization is seriously considering this.
Especially since this is the team that exploded after they cut out a Bagley-type big. He has no use to a team trying to get back into contention and they wouldn't use him.
Ordinarily I’d agree with you, but the whole premise the writer is taking is that this year is different, that the draft doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of variance between #2 and #12 pick quality. So if the Warriors trade down, they’ll get a player roughly the same caliber as they would at #2, AND be able to pick up an asset essentially for free, according to the writer.
And I guess that would mean the reason the Kings would agree to this, is because they’re stupid, and don’t realize, as the writer makes explicitly clear, there isn’t much difference between #2 and #12 this year. I have no real idea if that’s his position; He never actually says much of anything about the Kings.
But in building his case for all the reasons why the Warriors should, he explains pretty clearly why the Kings shouldn’t. Why give up any asset, regardless of what you think of it, to move up in a draft you just said has no real difference in quality from #2 to #12?