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The Sacramento Kings have agreed to a deal with undrafted Wisconsin forward Duje Dukan, league sources told RealGM on Monday.
Dukan's deal with the Kings will contain guarantees, sources said.
Over five summer league games with the Kings, Dukan averaged 9.2 points and 2.4 rebounds while shooting 41.7 percent from three-point land (10-of-24).
Dukan, a native of Deerfield, Ill., played four collegiate seasons at Wisconsin. The 6-foot-10 big man was a redshirt as a junior.
DD_reynolds wrote:One of the most bizarre NBA signings of all-time. Vivek and Vlade do it again.
nba2k16 wrote:DD_reynolds wrote:One of the most bizarre NBA signings of all-time. Vivek and Vlade do it again.
Are you surprised? They are the biggest jokes in professional sports right now
Terrible front office is an understatement
kalenclayton wrote:nba2k16 wrote:DD_reynolds wrote:One of the most bizarre NBA signings of all-time. Vivek and Vlade do it again.
Are you surprised? They are the biggest jokes in professional sports right now
Terrible front office is an understatement
How is this bizarre? It's essentially a training camp invite with a little bit of guaranteed money. The dude played well in SL so they rewarded h with a chance. What is the point of summer league and the D-League if players can't be signed from there. It's a showcase people.
codydaze wrote:kalenclayton wrote:nba2k16 wrote:
Are you surprised? They are the biggest jokes in professional sports right now
Terrible front office is an understatement
How is this bizarre? It's essentially a training camp invite with a little bit of guaranteed money. The dude played well in SL so they rewarded h with a chance. What is the point of summer league and the D-League if players can't be signed from there. It's a showcase people.
It's the Sacramento Kings. Anything we do is bizarre and a joke...
kalenclayton wrote:codydaze wrote:kalenclayton wrote:How is this bizarre? It's essentially a training camp invite with a little bit of guaranteed money. The dude played well in SL so they rewarded h with a chance. What is the point of summer league and the D-League if players can't be signed from there. It's a showcase people.
It's the Sacramento Kings. Anything we do is bizarre and a joke...
I agree that a lot of our moves have looked questionable/stupid in the past, but this offseason looks like a raging win to me. Vlade knows what it's like to win and he is trying to bring it back to Sac. His moves haven't looked very questionable to me at all. They all look like savvy moves. We really haven't ever been able to bring talent to Sac via free agency and we needed that this summer. Somehow Vlade made it happen. The Rondo move looked great because it's low risk/high reward (this is highly debatable, but really what was the better option?). Belineli, Butler, Acy, and Cauley-Stein all look like wonderful additions. Dukan could be a diamond in the rough or he could be horrible. Either way, it's a super low risk/potentially high reward situation.
kalenclayton wrote:codydaze wrote:kalenclayton wrote:How is this bizarre? It's essentially a training camp invite with a little bit of guaranteed money. The dude played well in SL so they rewarded h with a chance. What is the point of summer league and the D-League if players can't be signed from there. It's a showcase people.
It's the Sacramento Kings. Anything we do is bizarre and a joke...
I agree that a lot of our moves have looked questionable/stupid in the past, but this offseason looks like a raging win to me. Vlade knows what it's like to win and he is trying to bring it back to Sac. His moves haven't looked very questionable to me at all. They all look like savvy moves. We really haven't ever been able to bring talent to Sac via free agency and we needed that this summer. Somehow Vlade made it happen. The Rondo move looked great because it's low risk/high reward (this is highly debatable, but really what was the better option?). Belineli, Butler, Acy, and Cauley-Stein all look like wonderful additions. Dukan could be a diamond in the rough or he could be horrible. Either way, it's a super low risk/potentially high reward situation.
nba2k16 wrote:kalenclayton wrote:codydaze wrote:
It's the Sacramento Kings. Anything we do is bizarre and a joke...
I agree that a lot of our moves have looked questionable/stupid in the past, but this offseason looks like a raging win to me. Vlade knows what it's like to win and he is trying to bring it back to Sac. His moves haven't looked very questionable to me at all. They all look like savvy moves. We really haven't ever been able to bring talent to Sac via free agency and we needed that this summer. Somehow Vlade made it happen. The Rondo move looked great because it's low risk/high reward (this is highly debatable, but really what was the better option?). Belineli, Butler, Acy, and Cauley-Stein all look like wonderful additions. Dukan could be a diamond in the rough or he could be horrible. Either way, it's a super low risk/potentially high reward situation.
The better option was Collison. I know he isn't a big name but he had such a good year for his guys considering what he's come from. He's no star PG compared to other guys in the league but certainly much better than Rondo
I know Rondo is the bigger name but the dude is done. Couldn't buy into a system with a world-class coach in Carlisle and world-class leader in Dirk, on a playoff team with some good strong heads in the locker room
How do you think he will perform in Sacramento where he doesn't have that? I don't see him magically improving his shooting
And to those saying he will play better because he is playing for a contract... he was playing for one last year too and we all know how that went
kalenclayton wrote:nba2k16 wrote:kalenclayton wrote:I agree that a lot of our moves have looked questionable/stupid in the past, but this offseason looks like a raging win to me. Vlade knows what it's like to win and he is trying to bring it back to Sac. His moves haven't looked very questionable to me at all. They all look like savvy moves. We really haven't ever been able to bring talent to Sac via free agency and we needed that this summer. Somehow Vlade made it happen. The Rondo move looked great because it's low risk/high reward (this is highly debatable, but really what was the better option?). Belineli, Butler, Acy, and Cauley-Stein all look like wonderful additions. Dukan could be a diamond in the rough or he could be horrible. Either way, it's a super low risk/potentially high reward situation.
The better option was Collison. I know he isn't a big name but he had such a good year for his guys considering what he's come from. He's no star PG compared to other guys in the league but certainly much better than Rondo
I know Rondo is the bigger name but the dude is done. Couldn't buy into a system with a world-class coach in Carlisle and world-class leader in Dirk, on a playoff team with some good strong heads in the locker room
How do you think he will perform in Sacramento where he doesn't have that? I don't see him magically improving his shooting
And to those saying he will play better because he is playing for a contract... he was playing for one last year too and we all know how that went
I agree that Collison is the better option at point. He played so well with Cuz and Gay. He is a great 3rd/4th fiddle. What I meant by Rondo being the best option was by free agency. What other potential needle-movers were going to come to Sac? I think bringing Rondo in gives us a really good 2-headed monster at pg. He was the best option to gamble on. I am content with having him over the contract that Wes Matthews received.
