The Sacramento Kings aren’t facing any immediate decisions with their roster, but we know there are some big decisions coming this summer. The Kings have multiple options a many different places on the roster. On a recent episode of The Kings Insider Podcast, James Ham shared some insights on who he believes the Kings are planning to keep around. Obviously nothing is for certain, but James generally has a pretty good sense of how the winds are blowing inside the Kings.
The following players will be back on the Kings roster unless they are traded this summer:
Willie Cauley-Stein
Skal Labissiere
Buddy Hield
Malachi Richardson
Garrett Temple
Georgios Papagiannis
Kosta Koufos
Some players are pretty solid locks to be gone, including:
Arron Afflalo: Afflalo is on the hook for $12.5 million next season, but only $1.5 million is guaranteed. Afflalo was meant to be a veteran wing on a team pushing for the playoffs. There’s no chance he’s back next year,
Tyreke Evans: Some Kings fans have hoped that maybe Tyreke would stick around, but according to Ham that sounds very unlikely. In the podcast James tells us:
“I can almost guarantee you Tyreke Evans will not be back.”
Rudy Gay: Barring a setback in his rehab, Rudy seems like a lock to opt out of his deal. Rudy has until June 10th to make that decision, in case you weren’t aware of that deadline.
Some players are almost locks to stay. James reports that we should include Langston Galloway in that conversation:
[Galloway]’s due $5.4 million next season, he had a player option and I’ve been told almost assuredly they believe he will opt in, and so, expect him to be around.
Darren Collison and Ty Lawson: I think James summed this situation up well, saying he wouldn’t be surprised by either player coming back, neither player coming back, or both players coming back. Point guard is a huge mystery going into the offseason.
Ben McLemore: I think most of us are in agreement that Ben seems unlikely to return to the Kings, but it seems likely that the Kings would at least extend a qualifying offer. Free agency is a strange animal, and I don’t think you can completely rule out a return by McLemore.
Anthony Tolliver: This, to me, was perhaps the most surprising part of James’ podcast. It should be a no-brainer for the Kings to bring back Tolliver. Great teammate, great veteran presence, great role model for the young guys. But Ham makes it sound like this isn’t a lock.
"I think the Kings are in a dilemma here. Because he’s not young, I think he’ll be 32 going into next season, he’s owed $8.5 million, and the Kings have a buyout for 2, and so you have to decide is he worth that $6.5 million for next season. Can you get something better for that money, and does it behoove you just to keep him because he’s such a great human being and will help your young players develop"
"I’m not sure the Kings are ready to keep him. Can they improve that position?"
Brevin Knight escribió:Leonard me parece bastante malo aunque bueno, si aporta dureza y presencia atrás pues bienvenido sea.
AleixG7 escribió:Esto comentan en el SacTown Royalty (de acuerdo a los comentarios de James Ham en su podcast) sobre los jugadores que podrían marcharse en verano. Me sorprende sobre todo lo de Tolliver, espero que no la caguemos y continúe.
Es decir, según parece, seguirá Galloway (extenderá la PO), se marcharán casi con total seguridad Afflalo (lo tendremos que cortar, dudo que lo traspasemos), Evans, Gay y McLemore. En el aire Collison, Lawson y Tolliver.
The following players will be back on the Kings roster unless they are traded this summer
I'm going to talk more about it on the pod tomorrow, and play you the clips, but when Gentry and Demps speak it sounds like Holiday is gone
OMR.RAYO escribió:Brevin Knight escribió:Leonard me parece bastante malo aunque bueno, si aporta dureza y presencia atrás pues bienvenido sea.
Leonard dureza? Es tan duro como un pastelito de crema y nata...
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The Kings announced today that they have hired Luke Bornn as their new Vice President of Strategy and Analytics. If you haven’t heard that name before, that’s no surprise. Bornn has no background working in basketball, having recently served as the Head of Analytics for A.S. Roma, an Italian soccer team but he has co-authored 6 papers on basketball since 2014 and he’s also been a mainstay at the MIT Sloan Analytics Conference. He’s also been a statistics professor at Harvard University.
Over the coming weeks, Bornn will work with Divac and the front office to add some of the sharpest minds in the field of statistical sciences to augment the analytics department and continue building a database accessible to players, coaches and basketball operations personnel.
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