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Andres Nocioni has requested to be traded and the Sacramento Kings have agreed to it. Should we consider Andres Nocioni as someone who can be valuable off our bench?

Andres Nocioni:
$6,850,000
$6,650,000
$7,500,000 T/O - I doubt any team exercises the option.

Mike Bibby:
$5,564,767
$6,217,617

My proposal would be Mike Bibby & the 53rd pick for Andres Nocioni & the 33rd.

The positive about Andres is that he is a high energy guy that won't produce big numbers, but will do the little things that role players never seem to get credit for. This past season he hit 96 3-pointers, which was the second most during his career, and he made 38.6% of them.

The problem for us is that Jeff T would need to make strides this off-season and be prepared for possibly a starting role next season. Positives and negatives, but are there more negatives?

I don't see any huge negatives, but I don't see Sac accepting. This would kind of hurt our guard depth though, especially if Joe leaves, so we'd need to spend the 33rd on a guard, possibly Eric Bledsoe if he slips.

I also don't see why the Kings would do it if they are moving 20 picks down.

My best suggestion for a Bibby trade would be Bibby/Evans for TJ Ford.

I don't see Sacramento doing that. I do like the pick improvement and Nocioni would be interesting to try in the rotation instead of Bibby. As for Teague taking over, if he isn't ready then Crawford would see more time at PG or we'd go for a vet free agent guard around the BAE level or minimum to help out. If we drafted a PG it would be because we have doubts about Teague long term because having 2 essentially rookie PGs really isn't much better in reality than just 1. Armon Johnson is the guy I'd be looking at if we have doubts on Teague's ability to develop.

I anticipate there will be better moves that can be made, but I don't hate it.

what happened to mike bibby that makes this seem like a good deal?

chrbal wrote:what happened to mike bibby that makes this seem like a good deal?

Not sure how to answer this...
If you're an ATL fan, yeah, I have no idea how Bibby could garner us Nocioni and 20 spots in the draft either.
If you're not, then basically, we've been so PG-starved for so long, that it took us 2.5 years to realize why SAC was so willing to dump him for some expirings and a 2nd - he's surviving on "guts and guile" and no longer has the athleticism he had in his prime (which wasn't much to begin with). It's fine on O - he's still a good enough shooter and distributor to be a contributor on that end. On D, it's a mismatch waiting to happen... against literally anyone in the league.

The King fans appear to be interested. Link

Scroll down until my post on page one, a couple declines after that, but on page two the interest is there. Mike Bibby being a teacher to Evans appeals to some.