2025-26 General Thread

[BoogieTime]

Imagine Monte McNair in his next GM interview attempting to explain trading Haliburton for Sabonis and Fox for Lavine. That guy seriously doesn't get enough hate from Kings fans

yet people still blame Vivek. McNair makes that trade, the horrendous Fox situation, drafts a 22 y/o Carter knowing he was injured and out for 1/2 the year and somehow, someway, genius fans are like "fIrE tHe OwNer!"

Then Scott Perry, armed with a deep backcourt already, knowing we need a rebuild, drafts a 23 y/o guard and 22 y/o center, then gets Schroder and Westbrook so the young guys can't even play...but that's Vivek's fault? Then he overpays the definitively mid Keegan Murray (which elicits mostly applause from you guys btw) and you wonder why we suck and laughably blame the owner.

What don’t you understand about Vivek win now mandates that we’re going on the entire time

During Hali’s situation, Vivek was pushing for an all in trade, and there were reports behind McNairs back and to spur McNair on that the Kings were looking for win now help even as a bad team that they were.

Fox, was not only “leading” bad Kings teams before Domas arrival, but he was bumbling through a bad season and had no value, and who does that leave?

It was dual Vivek/Fox in equal parts leading to the Kings losing Hali

[OGSactownballer]

Imagine Monte McNair in his next GM interview attempting to explain trading Haliburton for Sabonis and Fox for Lavine. That guy seriously doesn't get enough hate from Kings fans

yet people still blame Vivek. McNair makes that trade, the horrendous Fox situation, drafts a 22 y/o Carter knowing he was injured and out for 1/2 the year and somehow, someway, genius fans are like "fIrE tHe OwNer!"

Then Scott Perry, armed with a deep backcourt already, knowing we need a rebuild, drafts a 23 y/o guard and 22 y/o center, then gets Schroder and Westbrook so the young guys can't even play...but that's Vivek's fault? Then he overpays the definitively mid Keegan Murray (which elicits mostly applause from you guys btw) and you wonder why we suck and laughably blame the owner.

What don’t you understand about Vivek win now mandates that we’re going on the entire time

During Hali’s situation, Vivek was pushing for an all in trade, and there were reports behind McNairs back and to spur McNair on that the Kings were looking for win now help even as a bad team that they were.

Fox, was not only “leading” bad Kings teams before Domas arrival, but he was bumbling through a bad season and had no value, and who does that leave?

It was dual Vivek/Fox in equal parts leading to the Kings losing Hali

And it’s very well known and established that Vick has constant man crushes for scoring guards and thinks he is somehow finding the next Steph.

The constant of chasing those players and not appropriately building role playing flexible athletes around the chosen core is exactly how we ended up here.

[Anderson Hunt]

LaVine for LaRavia and three expirings (Hachimura, Vincent, and Kleber)

Waive McDermott, Saric, and Eubanks

[BoogieTime]

Will be interesting to see what happens in this deadline.... I think DDR/Lavine/Keon will be elsewhere, with Keon possibly needed to grease the wheels on a Lavine trade to make him more palatable... expirings for Lavine, or a little long term salary coming our way, and hopefully 1-2 2nd rounders for Demar, the way he has shot the three ball this year..

As for Domas, no team will be offering value for his talent.. so it depends how badly you feel he will mess up the tank.. apparently the FO seems intent on not moving him for little to get a worse record, and I don't mind that.. Just let him come back very late this year to not mess up this particular tank

“For Sabonis’ part, league sources say the 29-year-old big man has heeded that call for patience. His contract runs through the 2027-28 season, with a combined $94 million owed in the next two seasons, meaning his market is inevitably limited by the sheer magnitude of the money owed.
Teams like Washington, the Phoenix Suns and Chicago have shown significant interest in the past and are still believed to be on his short list of possible suitors, but Sabonis is prepared to remain in a Kings jersey for the foreseeable future. He has been out since Nov. 19 with a partial tear of his left meniscus and was scheduled to be re-evaluated within the next week.” - Amick

[codydaze]

I feel like Schroder is going to be moved right when the December 15th deadline opens up. Seems like there might be a move already in the works considering he's been out with game time decisions consistently for a while now.

[Silver Man]

I feel like Schroder is going to be moved right when the December 15th deadline opens up. Seems like there might be a move already in the works considering he's been out with game time decisions consistently for a while now.

Seems a bit hard to believe someone is going to want him with the contract we gave him but hopefully this is the case.