The Sacramento Kings are deciding to pull out of the Pascal Siakam talks, sources say. Things can be fluid, but Kings-Raptors talks are now over.
The Sacramento Kings are deciding to pull out of the Pascal Siakam talks, sources say. Things can be fluid, but Kings-Raptors talks are now over. https://t.co/oQtwcbKtjF
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 6, 2024
by IonHazzikostasIsGod
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Okay, onto the next opponent, Siakam to GSW lol
That was fast
Siakam revenge game tonight then
They were never a real player. They weren’t trading Murray.
No Murray I guess
GRAND OPENING GRAND CLOSING
thank god cuz that supposed package was putrid
They never had the realistic pieces to get a deal done. I didn’t understand why they were so heavily rumoured.
SO MANY CHESS MOVES
“Things can be fluid, but Kings-Raptors talks are now over.”
Would love to see Siakam get a 50 piece tonight just for fun. Never saw Sacramento as a real trading partner but it would be fun to see pascal torch them today
Guessing either they spoke with him pregame and didn’t get the indication he would want to stay in Sacramento, or the Raps held firm on Keegan Murray or no deal
They had a done deal, Pascal wouldn’t commit to signing this offseason. Listen to Shams first TV hit, it’s very obvious. The Kings wanted assurance that Pascal would re-sign if they included Murray.
this just tells me something is seriously brewing and pascal is as good as gone
Kings pullout game is strong!
My guess is pascal not willing to commit to signing with the kings.
Bruh this is so weird to me. The kings being suitors coming out like 2 hours ago and then this now. Seems weird.
Siakam bout to torch the kings tonight 🔥
“Keegan Murray over ME?!!” – Siakam
Good don’t want their scraps
Who is relaying this to Shams in real time? We’re not normally a team to leak, and I don’t see how the Kings benefit from them progressing in talks getting out.
Plus it’s developing in real time so there’s not a chance for it to spread through the organization and an unwanted leak to emerge. This has to be a calculated attempt by one of the FOs to do something.
Weird
LMAO all that noise for half and hour and now they’re out
Lmao Shams. Guess Grange overheard them saying “Keegan or bust” afterall
Can’t trade for top 25 in NBA for scraps. Kings will be Kings, a meddling 1st round exit team. Can’t sign him? That’s your problem.
Pacers just blew out the Hawks and if the raptors win tonight they are ahead of the Hawks in the standings, so that’s something else to keep an eye out.
Haynes is very reputable and if he said keep an eye on GSW, I will do so.
Were not trading Siakam unless the package is too good to refuse
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This is how Masai moves.
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If I was a betting man I would put money down on Siakam being in a Raptor jersey
If they’re not giving us Keagan Murray, they can fuck right off.
It feels like if Pascal does get traded it would be a curve ball out of no where like OG
That was a wild two hours.
If this is Siakam blocking the trade by saying he won’t sign then he’s genuinely pissing me off. I know it’s not confirmed that thats why, but my god if he pulls this shit and then decides to bolt in FA, that would be a move that would make Vince Carter look good
I think I might be in the minority saying this but I really don’t see the point of trading Pascal Siakam. I think we should resign him (he’s shown tremendous willingness to stay in Toronto and he’ll get paid more here). The OG trade changed a lot for us and mainly its because we didn’t see any real possibility of not only getting a starting budding star point guard in IQ but also a SOLID starting forward in RJ. Use this season for IQ and RJ to gel with the team. Scottie will continue to get more on ball reps and IMO he still has a few more leaps left in him. Take a look at the starting line up of a confident IQ + RJ + SB + PS + JP. I believe that starting line up can compete with the best of them in this league. And because of the OG trade, we were able to also find us a sixth man in naturally shifting Dennis to a back up role. We also seem to forget there’s a guy we drafted, by the name of Gradey Dick who was supposed to be a sharp shooter and instant scorer (think Duncan Robinson for the Heat). He’s having a rough time sure, but I think with proper cardio management and a summer to get right, this guy will be a MASSIVE lift off the bench as well. I don’t know about GTJ so I won’t comment on it. But we’ll have at least Gradey + Dennis. I do think we should move off Boucher and we should start to have serious getting rid of Temple + Young and replacing them with young guys like Jontay Porter, Liberty Freeman or even Nowell. Young + Temple are just sitting on the bench. Heck, I’d add Otto Porter Jr to the mix but he’s played good when he can actually play lol. Point is that the bench needs some work but AT LEAST we should be seven deep at the start of next season. If we trade Pascal, I do think we’re not going to get nearly enough of a ‘budding star’ or young assets that are going to impact the game for us the way he does.