Floods

Ideally they'd not draft Beal and find a way to get rid of Thornton anyway.

Porn Player

Beal looks like a stud. Why are you against him?

In regards to Leonard. If they are looking to move down, they better hope Leonard is around when they finally come up, I can see his stock rising and they might get seriously burned.

Lots of talk of how Drummond would compliment Cousins. That has the potential to be brilliantly good, or spectacularly bad.

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RollWithEm

Absolutely on the money. That's the true definition of swinging for the fences.

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Floods

When you're in the Kings position you won't get very far by aiming for the middle.

RollWithEm

That's the trouble with the crapshoot that is the NBA draft, though. There's an example almost every year of a player who is passed up on despite his great college production because no one wants to "aim for the middle" who normally comes back to haunt all of those teams.

How many teams wish they would've taken Pierce in 1998 or Gilbert Arenas in 2001 or Tayshaun Prince/Carlos Boozer in 2002 or David West in 2003 or Danny Granger in 2005? Sometimes "swinging for the middle" on a guy like Arnett Moultrie, John Henson, Kendall Marshall, or maybe even Andrew Nicholson who produced at a high clip in college will wind up giving you the best return on your investment outside the top 2 or 3 picks.

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RollWithEm

Kings Want MKG

This seems unlikely. Also, would MKG even be the best fit for this team?

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Floods

Beats the hell out of Beal.

waggy

I wonder if the people at the Bee know how aggravating their website is with all the bullshit pop ups and other crap that has to load? Hate that website.

No way of knowing if MKG will develop an elite level outside shot, but you have to take him if he by some miracle drops to 5.

Da Grinch

keep smart

cousins

trade evans , jimmer while their value is still high ,
cousins and evans has to go , they clearly have the bad habits that losing only makes worse(chucking , inconsistent defense , poor shot selection , generally being poor teammate , trying to get his before their extension.) i figure jimmer will take time but at best he's a shoot 1st pg and unless he is a star its the worst thing for a losing team.

trade jimmer to the suns for #13 draft (tyler zeller)

trade evans for wilson chandler

trade #5 + salmons and terrance williams for josh smith

draft draymond green

sign raymond felton

sign bill walker



new team
cousins/zeller
smith/thompson
chandler/green/outlaw/greene
thorton/walker
felton/thomas

much better defensively , not the best offensive team , but much better than they are now.

more importantly a competitive team something suitable to growing cousins into a franchise big man , with vets that wont go for his immaturity.

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Bogg

Smith is a noted coach killer and crazy person, while Felton was one of the players that led the near-mutiny in Portland that submarined their season. You're just trading one toxic situation for another.

RollWithEm

I don't know about Josh Smith being a crazy person, but he works tirelessly on the court.

Felton definitely tried to sabotage he Blazers, though. I agree with that.

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Da Grinch

i tend to give felton a pass because its not in his best interest to be a troublemaker in a contract year and he's never been a problem before ...sometimes you run into a team in flux and things go awry.

as for smith being a coach killer , i don't see it , he's only had 2 coaches, and woodson wasn't fired because of him.

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RollWithEm

I still think Josh Smith is a very valuable player in this league. He would up the Kings' professionalism, IMO.

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Bogg

He fought with Woodson the whole time the two were there together, just google their names together. He's calmed down some now that he's hitting his late twenties, but he's far from a stabilizing presence in a young locker room. At any rate, it's not a great move for Sacramento because Smith is in the last year of his contract, he'll require a big extension, and decent amounts of money would have to be committed to Chandler and Felton. The Maloofs, being broke, aren't likely to go for that. Best bet is probably to try and turn Evans plus something else into Derrick Favors, Derrick Williams, or Enes Kanter; draft the BPA at five; and do your best to clear out the Salmons contract.