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No, it's not even close to lateral. It doesn't matter that Kenny, Snow and Marshall all suck. Shaving a year off of Kenny's deal is absolutely huge for us.
In many cases sure, it might make more sense to package Ron with Kenny, but we're not getting a full expiring back regardless, so really, if we can move Kenny, we freaking do it.
I'd hardly call moving from Kenny Thomas to Eric Snow or Donyell Marshall huge. Positive movement, fair enough, but not in the same ballpark as huge. If the player that Sacramento got for Kenny had some real on court talent or was an actual expiring contract, that would be huge, getting Marshall or Snow in return is the absolute least they can do for the substandard return for the player they want (Artest/Bibby)
Gooden in return for Bibby isn't that impressive because he's not that much of an upgrade over what the Kings already have. Gooden, Moore & SAR would all be fighting for playing time next season leaving none of them happy. Gooden is a decent rebounder, but not great, an OK scorer, but not great. He's not much of a defender or shot blocker, he's almost redundent for pieces the Kings have already.
