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Suns out/Kings in: Jared Dudley, Earl Clark, unprotected 2011 1st
Kings out/Suns in:Jason Thompson

Kings get one of the best roleplayers in the nba right now in Dudley (smart, great defender, great 3 point shooter, tons of hustle) an interesting forward prospect in Clark, and a draft pick while thinning the big glut and opening up minutes for better prospects and players

Suns thin their overload on the wings while aquiring a guy we can start at pf

Im guessing kings fans wont be friendly to it but worth a shot

All that does for the Kings is move their glut from a desirable position to an undesirable position. In fact I'd argue that the glut at SF would be far worse with the Kings having Dudley, Clark, Greene, & Casspi all looking for minutes while at PF they'd be left with, well, Landry.

As for the Kings' big man glut, it's not THAT bad. Whiteside will get very minimal playing time this year (we may even send him to the D-League as a matter of fact). That leaves a 4 man rotation of Landry, Thompson, Cousins, & Dalembert. I don't much see that as a problem.

Earl Clark is 6'10" and 225lbs. Kid can play some PF. Infact, the Suns played him @ PF during the Summer League. The problem is, he is a complete prospect. He showed up for SL completely out of shape and horribly under performed.

This will fail in part because Thompson is the starter...nobody else is,and as much because it is between 2 West teams and SAC needs the Suns to get old and fade.

old rem wrote:This will fail in part because Thompson is the starter...nobody else is,and as much because it is between 2 West teams and SAC needs the Suns to get old and fade.

Sac needs the Suns to get old, so they turn down the trade and make the Suns keep a 25-year-old, a 22-year-old and a draft pick?

But yeah, the other reasons are valid, and I don't see the Kings entertaining this even though the value isn't way off.

rpa wrote:All that does for the Kings is move their glut from a desirable position to an undesirable position. In fact I'd argue that the glut at SF would be far worse with the Kings having Dudley, Clark, Greene, & Casspi all looking for minutes while at PF they'd be left with, well, Landry.

As for the Kings' big man glut, it's not THAT bad. Whiteside will get very minimal playing time this year (we may even send him to the D-League as a matter of fact). That leaves a 4 man rotation of Landry, Thompson, Cousins, & Dalembert. I don't much see that as a problem.

Not to mention that Landry and Dalembert will be free agents next season. Kings need to keep this big man "glut" as insurance for what might happen next summer.