Rudy Gay opting out

Post #1 » by **bwgood77** » Mon May 8, 2017 7:17 pm

Post #2 » by **City of Trees** » Mon May 8, 2017 7:29 pm

Had a feeling Rudy would opt out. Wish him the best.

Damn, Kings have money to spend this offseason.

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Post #3 » by **KF10** » Mon May 8, 2017 7:37 pm

Pretty good news.

But that means, the SF position is wide open.

SactownHrtBrks8 · Post #4 » by **SactownHrtBrks8** » Mon May 8, 2017 7:40 pm

I am happy about this.

SacKingZZZ · Post #5 » by **SacKingZZZ** » Mon May 8, 2017 8:06 pm

I wonder what team he goes to? This for sure signifies no doubt that the youth movement must go on unobstructed from here.

benchmobbin02 · Post #6 » by **benchmobbin02** » Mon May 8, 2017 11:18 pm

That is what I thought would happen. We are setting up the young group to take the leadership roles with the team. But I still think a few key vets will play roles and get minutes.

For Rudy, I hope he goes to a playoff team like Bos or ATL. Want him to do well.

Lost in LA · Post #7 » by **Lost in LA** » Tue May 9, 2017 1:37 pm

benchmobbin02 wrote:That is what I thought would happen. We are setting up the young group to take the leadership roles with the team. But I still think a few key vets will play roles and get minutes.

For Rudy, I hope he goes to a playoff team like Bos or ATL. Want him to do well.

We may be looking at a 20 win season next year but for the 2-5 year horizon it's the best way. He does not fit the structure and players we have and are trying to develop

dckingsfan · Post #8 » by **dckingsfan** » Tue May 9, 2017 1:41 pm

City of Trees wrote:Had a feeling Rudy would opt out. Wish him the best.

Damn, Kings have money to spend this offseason.

I would hope they wouldn't spend the money and take the time to actually develop their young players.

Assuming Gay and Galloway are going to opt out you have:

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Player                 2017-18        2018-19
Arron Afflalo          $12,500,000    
Kosta Koufos           $8,393,000    $8,739,500 
Garrett Temple         $8,000,000    $8,000,000 
Anthony Tolliver       $8,000,000    
Willie Cauley-Stein    $3,704,160    $4,696,875 
Buddy Hield            $3,675,480    $3,833,760 
Georgios Papagiannis   $2,301,360    $2,400,480 
Malachi Richardson     $1,504,560    $1,569,360 
Skal Labissiere        $1,312,611    $1,544,951 
Caron Butler           $517,220        $517,220 
                      $49,908,391   $31,302,146

You pray that we can grab either Isaac or Tatum in the draft and then Ntilikina.

Then you trade either Tolliver or Koufos for a wing.

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PG   Ntilikina      Temple   
SG   Hield          Afflalo   
SF   Isaac/Tatum      
PF   Labissiere     Koufos       Tolliver
C    Cauley-Stein   Papagiannis

You will still need to add players on short (hopefully one year) contracts to get to the minimum or you don't and then during the season you take on trash contracts plus draft picks (like Philly did).

blind prophet · Post #9 » by **blind prophet** » Tue May 9, 2017 2:17 pm

We also own our pick with no strings attached next year.

Good time to stay young.

SacKingZZZ · Post #10 » by **SacKingZZZ** » Tue May 9, 2017 9:12 pm

blind prophet wrote:We also own our pick with no strings attached next year.

Good time to stay young.

I thought it was a pick swap next year too? If not then cool.

blind prophet · Post #11 » by **blind prophet** » Tue May 9, 2017 9:59 pm

SacKingZZZ wrote:
blind prophet wrote:We also own our pick with no strings attached next year.

Good time to stay young.

I thought it was a pick swap next year too? If not then cool.

Nah its all ours without any swap.

So bring on some bad loot in trades if the incentive is all right.

benchmobbin02 · Post #12 » by **benchmobbin02** » Wed May 31, 2017 3:28 am

So Rudy is cleared to start full training and practicing. Looking like the chances are good he opts out as long as there are no set backs.

Sacramento_King · Post #13 » by **Sacramento_King** » Fri Jun 2, 2017 8:27 pm

Funny thing about Rudy, me personally, didn't appreciate his game when he was here if he opts out. Watching the playoffs though, I said more then a few times that the team I was watching could use a guy like Rudy. I hope he does well and I could see him thriving with us if he comes back and he's healthy.

benchmobbin02 · Post #14 » by **benchmobbin02** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:11 pm

Read on Twitter

sacking123 · Post #15 » by **sacking123** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:52 pm

benchmobbin02 wrote:

Read on Twitter

Fantastic that it's official. And they made the right call not to stretch Tollivers money even though that was an easy choice.

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Post #16 » by **Wolfay** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:24 am

Perhaps the best part is the return of our inside "can he play SF?' meme.

Anyway, this was probably the best for him and the Kings. A genuine pro and I wish him the best.

KingFox · Post #17 » by **KingFox** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:51 am

Eh, his style sucked for us. Thank God he's gone and good riddance

dckingsfan · Post #18 » by **dckingsfan** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:59 pm

Next up - what to do with Afflalo?

benchmobbin02 · Post #19 » by **benchmobbin02** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:33 pm

dckingsfan wrote:Next up - what to do with Afflalo?

His full contract is guaranteed if he isn't waived on draft day. I think we wait to see if we can include him in a trade with someone that wants an expiring regardless of what the goal is, whether getting picks or moving up. It makes sense. 9 days people.

dozencousins · Post #20 » by **dozencousins** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:17 pm

Not really any news to me . I said he was opting out months ago .

Good luck elsewhere Rudy .