FarBeyondDriven wrote:I see that Kings fans aren't the only ones with delusions about Vivek that he is this mustache twirling villain barking at his G.M.s to do his bidding at all costs. It's laughable. He's not the meddler idiots paint him out to be. There's one lone example of him getting very involved when as a new exuberant owner he urged (not demanded) them to draft Stauskas because we needed shooting and he was an all-american who shot 42% from three. The horror!! What a meddling monster. Worst owner in the NBA!! That's literally where the stupid notion that he's a meddler comes from. His only problem is he's hired buffoons to be his G.M.s. First Vlade and then McNair. Maybe Perry will be different.
Right now there's a staring contest. Vivek has virtually zero to with any of this. Do people think he knows who is on other team's rosters? Or that he talks to scouts about college prospects or that he's some capologist making calls to other teams trying to manipulate the cap via a S & T lmao? No, he wants to win and he's tasked his G.M.s to make that happen. Maybe it'd be smarter to tank but that's not his prerogative and he's the owner and you can't fault him for that. But just because that's the case does not mean a competent G.M. can't make it happen with the current constraints of being a small market. Unfortunately the G.M.s he's hired just happened to have sucked so far. Perry has a chance to prove himself by making a shrewd trade. Will he allow himself to get fleeced like his predecessors or will he get good value. Either way, Vivek isn't making the call.
You guys have very little leverage. You need to temper expectations. He's an RFA that you don't want. There isn't a bunch of teams bidding against each other. You will not get better than Carter or Ellis, Saric and maybe a 2nd. You have a coach that doesn't value him and said so publicly, a fan-base lukewarm about him yet you expect top prospects and/or first round picks? Just be happy the Nets don't make him an offer you can't match and he goes ahead and accepts that and you don't get anything at all because the Nets are famous for doing so and they didn't draft a wing with any of their 5 first rounders plus they traded away Johnson.
Until there's a team with cap room, GS has plenty of leverage because JK wants to get paid. What the coach or fan base feels about him is irrelevant. Teams that want him do so because they believe that those feelings are wrong. The price will need to be for closer to what the Kings view Kuminga as, not the Warriors. So Carter/Saric's corpse/2nds won't cut it when GS can just keep him.
No one has illusions of getting Keegan Murray, but you'll need to come better than that
