The Sacramento Kings Should NOT Trade For Zach LaVine

The Sacramento Kings Should NOT Trade For Zach LaVine

Me but we’re talking in the chat at the break and if you want to get in on that chat ESPN 1320 TV um you can hang out in the chatty house youtube.com ESPN 1320 or twitch.tv ESPN 1320 that’s where you can reach us in the chatty house and we talk through the

Breaks we hang out during the break we answer questions um and frankly the chatty house sometimes asks some really good questions that we bring to Air and that’s one we’re going to do right now so I am not ham in the chat declared that Zack LaVine will not be

King and we’ve we’ve talked pretty extensively about about Zack LaVine and I definitely want to get your thoughts on this but for me the whole Zack LaVine thing um I think what it would take to go get Zack LaVine from an asset standpoint you could probably go get probably two maybe

Three lower caliber players who improve your roster more than Zack LaVine would oh for sure I mean financially we’re talking about a guy who makes 200 million over like the next four years yeah just you’re locking yourself into Zack LaVine as a member of your

Corp for the next half decade yeah I I don’t understand in any world where like Zack LaVine to the Kings makes sense I I just don’t like he’s not super efficient scorer he’s he’s never won at all like the fact that he’s fun and he’s highlight re and he gets buckets okay

Like there are a lot of guys like that out there in the league and this guy gets paid a lot to shoot 33.6% from three you know that’s that’s not exactly what you’re looking for and for me it’s if you’re going to add that type of of

Offensive weapon then add it on the front line yep don’t add it in the back court in the back court like I think everyone you can look at like what’s happening with Trey young right Trey young has played alongside Kevin herder he’s played alongside bogdon bogdanovich he’s played alongside deante Murray they

Just keep like wheeling and dealing through these guys that they believe can help Trey young as a player and they keep losing and what they haven’t done is is done something basic like what the like the Philadelphia 76ers did with Allen Iverson like Eric snow did all of

The Dirty Work he held down he rebounded he played defense he got everyone involved he kept the team together he hit a you know 16 foot jumper but that was about it he was so valuable to the Philadelphia 76ers like why haven’t they tried that next to Trey Trey young I

Have no idea and so when I look at dearon Fox I first of all I’ll say dearn fox fit fits next to a lot of players he’s not such a like this crazy megalomaniac scorer guy that he can’t fit alongside people he fit perfectly fine alongside buddy heeld he fit

Perfectly fine alongside bogdon bogdanovich and you the one player that he really didn’t fit alongside was was tyres halberton again you didn’t give it long enough but also you could see that it might not work because you had one guy who needs to orchestrate everything

And one guy who needs the ball in his hands to score and so that’s not exactly conducive to to building a team now we’ve seen again Fox work with herder Fox is probably going to work just fine with Chris dwarte but Chris dwarte is more like that Doug Christie or Eric

Snow type player that you run out there that does the Dirty Work that that gets mixes it up that goes and gets some rebounds that that gets a couple of assists that might have like six or seven eight shots a game but that’s it as long as he’s fitting into that role I

Think he can flourish and I think it makes Kings better yeah so I just and that’s not to say that Chris Duarte is a better player than Zack lav in a vacuum he’s not or even better than Kevin herder no no if you but if you’re if you’re acquiring Zack LaVine it’s

Because he puts the ball in the hoop in so many different ways yeah he’s a ridiculous athlete he can fill it up from outside like he’s a very very good scorer but when you look at the Kings and you look at their needs that’s not it

Putting him next to dear and fox is either handcuffing fox or handcuffing LaVine yeah and it just that defeats the purpose of acquiring a guy like that no totally totally if Daren Fox is really still if dearen Fox I shouldn’t say still if Daren Fox was struggling to score the

Basketball Darren fox is like man you know what he’s just he is 20 points a night and they really need more from their back court then okay but that’s not the case that’s not the case at all I just don’t I don’t I don’t see the Zack LaVine thing outside of hey he

Wants to be in Sacramento and oh that’s that’s he’s won dunk contests like that’s a big name and getting Landing a big name in Sacramento would be cool and and and Rel and different but I don’t think it helps them this year no no no it’s like the Kings have made this

Mistake a million times over the course of time over the course of history I mean it literally is like going out and getting Derek Smith because one of the first games that the Kings played in Sacramento dude goes out and scores like 30 something points and the Kings go out

And trade for him and then he blows out his knees and never the same player like or he had a bad knee already like yeah but it brings us it’s real quick yeah it’s about going and we say this once a show at least it’s about going from good

To great yeah acquiring Zack LaVine is a we haven’t made the playoffs this guy will help us get to the playoffs type of move Zack LaVine is not a this gets you to a championship caliber type of move it’s just it’s it’s not yeah and the

Problem is that Zach has made it to the playoffs exactly one time in his career and he wasn’t great yeah so I mean that’s just like the he’s been in the league a long time and he’s not the type of player that gets you over the hump

Nope um there’s also this other um here in the chat we had Greg moss and and I’m not calling you out Craig I’m just saying uh it plays into a different discussion here Davon plus herder a future first doesn’t get the Kings an anobi for those wondering why the Kings

Didn’t trade for him um this is a an interesting discussion Kyle because everyone wants to go out there with a trade machine and they they want to work out trades and the problem is that like you got to work the trade machine at least helps with salary right so people out there in

The in the world can look at and say okay salary capse this is how this works right um so yeah on paper that the Kings have all kinds of ways to get to get ogn and Obi the problem that you have is that the Raptors didn’t want it’s not

That they didn’t want Kevin herder and Davon Mitchell in a first round pick it’s that they wanted to stay competitive build around a 22y Old Scotty Barnes they got a 23y old they got a 24 year old and they’re building with that as their core the Kings had

That to offer but his name was Keegan Murray and the Kings weren’t goingon to do it and so they lost out so my point isn’t that the Kings had a better deal could have given a better deal my point is that sometimes you’re trading with a team who has different motivations than

What you have and that’s what we’ve run into here and then I think the bigger question is is that going to be the case if they decide to trade Pascal SE yakum and I’m going to say that I don’t think it is and I that sounds weird but go

Ahead so that’s kind of interesting because that’s what I was goingon to bring up on the about the OG trade was we’ve talked so much about the kings first round picks I know they have first round picks and they can offer these and teamc second there were zero first round picks in that

Deal it was it was Emanuel quickley and RJ Barrett and Detroit second yep which will be really good second Pi be really high second round pi the 31 pick in the draft Yeah so so back back of the first round early second round pick so that’s

The only tra that was the only pick that went in that deal because like you said the Raptors clearly still want to compete yep and draft picks don’t help you do that especially if they’re draft picks in 2025 and 2027 well or later yes yeah so if if

We’re talking about a 2026 2028 pick okay now when it comes to seaka I’m going to say a couple of things number one seaka makes $38 million so you have Toronto is going to have to take back upwards of 30$ 32 million no matter what and the people who make that kind of

Money are not a bunch of young players right so so they’re going to have to take back veterans that’s number one number two they already got two pieces to go with Barnes and they have other pieces there already they’re probably at this next Junction looking for more of

The draft compensation and not bearing themselves in the long-term contracts and and getting players that fit Maybe I’m Wrong maybe they’re looking for the exact same deal again they only want 22 23 year old players and if you got those players to trade them then they’re in so

Like welcome OKC to the conversation you have a bunch of these guys but I don’t think that that’s you already got two of them I think that they’re probably going to like look at the build as a long-term situation and build assets because again OG makes so much

Money that it’s going to you’re G to have to take back veterans no matter what yeah yeah and whether that’s I think that’s a great point and whether that’s veterans with a couple of Cheaper young players attached or an expiring with a couple of young guys attached or

Maybe it’s just salary match and then a bunch of picks yeah and maybe that’s where that winds up Landing but I I did think I was certain that the OG trade was going to be a player and then a bunch of picks that was not how it went

Which I thought was really really interesting yeah the Pascal SE yakam deal is gonna be fascinating now I think so too I think it it does the Kings can still get in on this they can still be players in this if they want um but

Remember he makes a lot of money and if you’re Toronto and you’re looking at this you already got three young guys that you can build around could you fill out your roster with role players that actually make sense to help bring these guys along and help develop them and

Help you know put placeholders in place and then first round picks as assets so I think there’s definitely a way that the kings are still involved

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