NBA mock draft has Kings taking another PG

NBA mock draft has Kings taking another PG

mock draft in the athletic okay and we had one a new one from the ringer both came out today and again we we’re talking NBA draft because it’s a little bit our responsibility just in case if the Kings do use their pick but you’re under the impression that they’re not going to you’re under the impression that that pick is going to more likely than not get dealt okay look I I’m not going to say that because every time I think that they’re going to trade their pick no it’s okay it’s okay like I’ll explain every time I think they’re going to trade their pick they don’t right so like when they drafted Davon Mitchell like that pick was up for grabs like everyone in the NBA knew that the number nine pick was up for grabs and then they used it to draft Avon right and like the Kegan Murray draft like I think more like for me it was like you probably if you’re going to draft keg Murray that’s fine you should probably trade down to five and if you can’t get anything out of Detroit which I guess is what happened then sure you got to take him at that’s that’s a okay MH right but um when it comes to like this group I did not think that they were going to draft last year and they traded the pick so maybe there is something here to the trend but the conversations that I’ve had is very specific they are going to be open to everything and and people can go okay well what does that mean there are so many things you can do with a draft pick right you can draft a player for another team you can draft a player for yourself but that’s not it you can trade back in the draft you can trade up in the draft but you can trade back in the draft in order to get another a 2025 or 2026 pick that then would free you up to trade other things like as long as you have a first round pick you can you you don’t fall under the steppan rule so there are ways that the Kings could help themselves like not just this season but multiple Seasons um I don’t think we’re going to see a like a cash dump which we’ve seen in the past because there’s no reason for that mhm so I don’t see them packaging like Harrison Barnes and the number 13 pick just to bail mhm but I think that they’re looking at this that would be crazy no I think it would be too I think they’re looking at like like pretty wide open like look if if there’s a trade that we could package a couple of veterans and the number 13 pick to to K Kyle kusma maybe that’s something that that that’s one option if there’s a way for you to package the your 2024 the number 13 pick with a 2027 and 2029 and some other player package to go get Brandon Ingram okay maybe that’s on the table like you have to look at like there’s all kinds of things that could be on the table I just don’t think that drafting a player is uh at number 13 is going to help them today right and that’s and that’s where I think the difference is you mentioned the Davon pick and how in the 21 draft you thought they’d trade the number nine but they end up taking Davon that was that that was such a different point in the timeline that was in 20 in the 2020 2021 season they won 31 games and it was still very early in the what the heck is this team process and then davon’s rookie year they go 30 and 52 um and that previous season they were last in the league in defense like they needed they needed help there and so it made it made sense like yeah hey you’re going to bring a young guy you think he can help you defensively that’s like a building block for the for this team and and if there’s a if there’s a draft pick at 13 that Monty mcir is like hell yeah that guy’s gonna play 20 minutes a night for us right now and to help us in ab and C ways dang what a player then sure they they’ll use it but I think that they’re less liable to do that this year because of that urgency like we talk about all the time fans talk about it all the time chatty house is is talking about it all the time you get on Twitter like they the The Vibes of yeah hey just being in in playoff contentions cool like no man people people want more I think the team wants more you wrote about it like nobody in that building was happy with how the season went last year no I I I think people’s jobs are eventually on the line right like you’ve got to win like and that’s the key difference between this year and the Davon Mitchell draft for example it’s like yo this year they got to do something yep more than just yeah let’s bring in a rookie and see how he fits we’re building this thing up like no man if you’re bringing aook you know how he fits and he’s going to be in the rotation day one well that and the problem is Kyle that your team is now like between 24 and 28 yes you know two years ago this team was between 22 and 25 it just keeps getting older and that you would think oh well you want to get younger go get younger players to get Young no like you have a track that you’re now on and I I keep bringing this up but I always think about the time when the Kings had Marco bellelli who was a top eight the rotation shooter right and they were able to trade that guy to the Charlotte Hornets for the number 22 pick in the draft right so they were able to go out and and get a a the number 22 pick the number 13 pick is worth way more than that pick so what can you get with that like in in any draft the number 13th pick should be able to get you a either a starter or a number six man like right there right a a quality contributor yeah we’re talking u a 456 guy in your rotation is what you should be able to get for the 13th pick because typically what you’re doing is you’re dealing with a a team who is trying to start over and they might have some quality veterans on their team but those quality veterans aren’t going to help with what they’re doing today so they’re going to trade those guys to go add another pick right go add another asset sure so that’s where the kings are kind of at they’re in the reverse of what they did with Marco banelli but I also I think that they’ve got to be open to just about everything and if that means that that you can’t find anything that works and you get to that number 13 you draft the best player available and so we can look at all these draft boards these mock drafts and say who is it that’s going to be around that range you know like again what do we got Rob Dillingham right that was in the athletic is in the athletic as the guy like he makes some sense like especially if you were to lose Malik monk even even if you I don’t think if you were to keep Malik monk he doesn’t make any sense because I totally agree like Dillingham is is a quality player but he’s not very big what is six to a buck 64 yeah exactly yeah and not only that but he’s known for his offense he’s not known as a defensive player um and one of the other problems he’s six uh he measured in at 61 without shoes MH and he’s got a 63 wingspan he’s not even a big wingspan guyy yeah n yeah so if if I’m going to draft a 6′ one guy right there I want a 66 67 wingspan right so maybe his defensive potential is higher yeah and and I’m not saying he’s a horrible Defender I don’t know what he’s going to look like at the NBA level he’s an electric scorer he’s a an electric playm he reminds me a lot of his production reminds me of Malik monk his game reminds me more of Tyrese Maxi at the college level not at the pro level nobody again like people might want to tell you that they thought Tyrese Maxi was going to be this good Maxi went what number 19 in the draft or whatever yeah his Ascension even just the last year year and a half has been insane spectacular spectacular what he’s been able to do uh is really really impressive but you know again I think when you’re looking at specific types of players that the Kings need I don’t know that adding a 6′ one guard to a 6 fo three and a and then another six 6 foot one guard and Davon Keon L’s 64 and a half well 63 and a half without shoes yeah like it’s not a very big back court dude and it’s we tal we’ve been going we’ve been going size athleticism that’s what this team needs and then it’s like hey how about this 6’2 164 pound guard who doesn’t play a lot of Defense like man what and like you said if Malik monk leaves and the kings are sitting there with Rob Dillingham and again this is from in a mock draft from the athletic they have Dillingham falling to the Kings and Sacramento selecting him they also put the caveat in there that they’re more likely to deal the pick yeah that that’s in there as well but I don’t I don’t like it at all unless if if monk leaves and Monty McNair in the front office and Mike Brown Look At Rob Dillingham and they’re like like yo he can do Malik stuff year one okay might be a little rocky out of the gate but come playoff time come come March April we really think that he could be at least Malik monk light in year one then fine go for it yep but man I just if monk stays and Rob Dillingham Falls to 13 I think the benefit there for the Kings is there are a lot of teams who would probably love to have Rob Dillingham oh I totally agree and not not contenders looking to win finals this year but teams that are looking to younger the the Spurs might love to have a player like that next to Victor wanyama for example just throwing one out yeah um if if the if the Hawks end up trading Trey young you throw Rob Dillingham in there and see how he I mean there’s just there’s so many I think there are a lot of instances where he’d be super valuable to a team and more valuable than what what he he’d give to the Kings well that and like here kind of like there’s a couple layers to what I’m going to say here um first of all at at Kentucky as a freshman he started one out of 32 games he averaged 15.2 points 2.9 rebounds 3.9 assists Off the Bench 495 from the field 444 from three like all of those are like oh my gosh his per 40 numbers which is what they do in the in NCAA 26.1 6.6 and five with 1.8 steals per game man like hey impr it’s almost like they’ve created another Malik monk to go put out into the world and that’s fine right it’s like hey that guy rules let’s make a new one exactly but but here’s the problem that I’m gonna bring up yeah is that if you’re the Kings you’ve got you’ve got a handful of assets to work with right the first asset you have is number 13 pick in the draft yes the next asset the only your only true free agent you have Alex Len you have uh McGee you’ve got um uh Kessler Kessler Edwards okay those are your three uh free agents right outside of Malik monk but the problem is if you don’t sign Malik monk to that 17.4 million the only thing you you have to spend is a mid-level exception at like 12 13 million and a biannual exception so that’s tough so what you can’t do is on one night draft Rob Dillingham and then two days later signed Malik Monk and now the only thing that you did at during your offseason basically brought in two of the same players that makes it really really difficult when those are your only two like pieces now you can go on and trade and you can trade future picks and stuff like that but the immediacy of this is that you only have really these two things that you’re working on what do we do with the number 13 pick slash other pick SL trades and what do we do about Malik monk is Malik monk coming back is he not coming back you would hope that by the 26 27th the draft day that we’re gonna know where where Malik Monk Is is in his process and and then you’re going to hope that nothing changes right at the last second because that’s what you always have to always have to be worried about do you think we’ll we’ll just on the Malik monk front briefly do you think that will know because day after the finals end is when the Kings can start negotiating with him yeah do you think we’ll legitimately know like right away no I don’t because the other teams can’t negotiate with him that’s the problem so we know that the Kings can negotiate with Malik but that’s it and so I’m not really sure you know what they’re going to do there like you’re GNA you’re going to be able to see like okay we know I I I can tell you right now the kings are all in at 7 fore 78 whatever million a 17.4 million they’re they’re in like they can’t announce that they can’t put it out there but there I can tell everybody out there in the world the kings are not going to lowball him and I know some people like well look what happened to mik Brown situation no it’s not happening it’s over it’s like he whatever it is he can get from the Kings he will be offered that right so he’s not going to sign up day one because he now has another we got two weeks until free agency we’ve got we got 13 days until free agency officially starts mhm technically no team can go out there and give him an offer at all outside the Kings until the day of now it doesn’t mean that that’s the way it works because we always like know a little bit in advance about what’s going to happen um but it’s because the offers kind of like roll in like really quickly that I mean how does a player switch teams on 1201 on on the day or or three three 301 it’s called tampering James it’s called tampering exactly it’s just a complicated World though that they’re in because you can call an agent and say hey we’re um you know we have player x that you have that’s that’s part of your so again mik monk has an agent the Kings can call Malik Monk’s agent and talk to them about Malik Monk um another team could call that same agency because they have a player and then say you just like in a general conversation that that agent could say you know well Malik monk is looking for XYZ if you guys are interested and the other team can well we can’t tamper right but but there are ways in which you understand what it is players are asking for what they want what they’re going to get from another team and the other thing that like it’s kind of a bummer for the Kings but there’s like a giant billboard on the internet that says the Kings can only offer Malik monk 17.4 million and 78 million so every team in the league knows what they’re competing with right right they understand makes it really tough yeah they understand exactly what the Kings can offer so sure do they know that they probably have to come in at 25 in order to get Malik to like switch what’s happening here maybe but maybe 22 gets it done maybe maybe 19 gets it done you don’t know until you you get into the negotiation try to figure it out yeah so yeah we won’t fully know what we will start hearing is it like oh team the Orlando Magic or Toronto Raptors or Philadelphia 76ers are are uh kicking the tires preparing to offer yeah they’re they’re in interested you know in in acquiring if W says a team is zeroing in on Malik monk watch out that means it’s it’s done that it does so whe and then that’s when the kings are like calling to you know say hey do we have tampering going on here yeah yeah yeah yeah so man anyway it should be interesting

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