![]() $108m over four years for RFA Cam Johnson. And Kyle Kuzma took $102m over four years. What in the ever loving…Īnd then Jerami Grant signed a 5/$160m contract. And at $18m a year (insert sad trombone sound here). …and then we re-signed Barnes (insert record scratch sound here). ![]() This makes a lot of sense, especially for a team that is good now and needs some help at stretch four and the wing. The Kings picked up about $38m in payroll space with this deal, or about $8m a year for the next four seasons and $5m in year five. ![]() However, the cost of that would have been $5m a year for five years, plus the money for Prosper, which starts at roughly $2.7m this season and would be at around $14m for the first four seasons. The Kings could have simply waived and stretched Holmes and kept the pick. I think that it is fair to say that this was not what we were expecting the moment that the 24 and Holmes were shipped out.ĥ38 words into this drivel (I can drivel adeptly with either hand, don’t you know), this seems like a good place to start. But this front office had earned at least a bit of patience from us, so I think that overall attitude around here was “wait and see – hope there’s more to come.”įast forward to today, and we have basically the same team as last year, with a couple of tweaks. We walked out of draft night kind of underwhelmed – is that a fair statement? We could have had (for example) Brice Sensabaugh, Jones, and Jackson Davis, but our “haul” was Jones and Slawson. A collective “OK?” was uttered when the Kings selected Jalen Slawson, with a few draft die hards lamenting that Trayce Jackson-Davis was still on the board. Good pick, we thought, but our attention had already turned to free agency. The evening continued, and the Kings moved up from 38 to 34 to select Colby Jones, a player that would not have been inappropriate at 24. The Kings were going to be players in free agency! Excitement grew as the Kings became one of roughly a half dozen teams with excess of $30m in cap space, and they were the only playoff team among this group. We were quickly informed that the Kings had traded the rights for Prosper, along with Richaun Holmes and his 2/$25m contract to Dallas for a trade exception. But maybe that was the mindset for a front office drafting closer to the end of the first round than the beginning of it. While OMP had the potential to click a lot of boxes for the Kings, his ability to contribute immediately was at least a bit of a question, and he was certainly less polished than the prior picks of this front office. Some of us (mercifully) muted the proceedings, while others committed fully, relishing the pain of the broadcast as though it was Harrison Barnes missing the game four shot on an endless loop (we’ll get back to Barnes a little later).Ģ4 arrived, and Olivier-Maxence Prosper was selected. Or maybe we wind up trading the pick for a player that could help out more quickly and reliably.Īnd then the draft started, and we sat around for two and a half hours waiting for our turn to pick. We re-adjusted our collective thinking, going from hoping for a franchise savior to hoping for a rotational piece, hopefully a stretch four or a rangy wing. The Kings Herald provided no draft prospect writeups on Wemby or Scoot, both of whom would likely be completely out of the Barclays Center by the time the Kings selected at 24. Instead, the Kings were scheduled to select from the discount rack, outside the lottery. The Kings were not going to be afforded the opportunity to spend a lottery pick on Spencer Hawes, Jason Thompson, Tyreke Evans, Jimmer Fredette, DeMarcus Cousins, Thomas Robinson, Ben McLemore, Nik Stauskas, Willie-Cauley Stein, Georgios Papagiannis, DeAaron Fox, Marvin Bagley, Tyrese Haliburton, Davion Mitchell, or Keegan Murray. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-USA TODAY Sportsįor the first time since 2006, the Kings entered the off season with a winning record and fresh off a playoff appearance. Sacramento, California, USA Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes (40) celebrates with forward Domantas Sabonis (10) during the fourth quarter against the Houston Rockets at Golden 1 Center. ![]()
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