They had the time, and now the time has passed. The earthquake that is the NBA Trade Deadline has passed over. With only the aftershock that is buyout season left, it’s only fair to look into who came out as the winners and losers at the deadline. Drew Maresca’s already dove into who the winners
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Before we begin, something, or someone, needs to be addressed- the death of one Kobe “Bean” Bryant. The NBA community lost one of its biggest icons over the weekend when Bryant lost his life in a helicopter crash. This news is very tragic seeing how popular Kobe was both during and after his time in
Down big deep into the fourth quarter Monday night, the Sacramento Kings pulled off a historic comeback. Monday night’s game between the Sacramento Kings and Minnesota Timberwolves looked entirely uninteresting, as both teams sit near the bottom of the Western Conference. The Wolves led by 18 at halftime, and 19 through three quarters, to the
Winning in the NBA is not easy by any means — but a victory on the road is almost more valuable than one at home. Maybe not as far as standings are concerned, but road wins are harder to come by in the league. Being able to get victories away from home can shoot your
The Portland Trail Blazers have agreed to send Kent Bazemore and filler to the Sacramento Kings for Trevor Ariza and filler. Here are NBA Trade Grades for both sides. Mark the Portland Trail Blazers down as the latest team to fall into the Trevor Ariza trap. As first reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the
The Kings, Suns and Timberwolves are all theoretically in the playoff hunt in the Western Conference. Who needs that spot the most? So it looks like the NBA draft lottery works! Three teams who miserably tripped over themselves en route to top-10 picks repeatedly over the course of a decade are right in the playoff
A point guard with the rap sheet that Chris Paul has does not deserve an anticlimactic ending. Now that he’s being paid almost $40 million in his mid-30’s to lead an average team in a Western Conference that won’t accept anything less than elite, it sure seems like his career is headed that way. It’s
The injuries are beginning to mount and NBA teams up and down the standings are looking for fill-in production. Who is being asked to step up? If there is anything that has defined the early portion of the 2019-20 NBA season, it’s injuries. We began the year knowing Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson would likely
Significant injuries popped up for a number of NBA teams this week and we’re breaking down each in detail. You know what they say: Bad things often come in threes. Well if that is the case, Monday was an extremely bad day as we received reports on injuries to, not one, not two, not three,
Listen, if you’ve found yourself here at this exact moment in late October and/or/potentially early November, there’s likely only one thing on your newly-refined, basketball-obsessed minds: hot takes. Make ‘em as hot as you can. And none of that Cholula weak sauce spiciness either — no, let’s sear some taste buds off and shoot them
After one season as a promising team on the rise, the Sacramento Kings are struggling to recapture the same joy that animated them last year and the future no longer seems quite as bright. The NBA’s regular season can sometimes seem like a bit of a slog. It is several months long, the list of
The Sacramento Kings’ season-opening rout at the hands of the Phoenix Suns just got even worse with the Marvin Bagley injury news. If betting walloped by a team that won 19 games last year wasn’t a bad enough start for the Sacramento Kings‘ new season, their situation got even tougher Thursday afternoon. According to the
Here we go again! Last year, this writer dove into what the association was like ten years before the incoming season. Now here we are again. We’re traveling back to the year 2010. Back when the iPad was first sweeping the nation, the economy was still in the toilet, and the Toy Story trilogy had
Ahead of Monday’s deadline for rookie contract extensions, Buddy Hield and Jaylen Brown both earned four-year deals with their respective teams. With the deadline for rookie contract extensions rapidly approaching, the Sacramento Kings and Boston Celtics were able to lock down their respective wing players who were eligible. As reported by The Athletic‘s Sam Amick
Anything can happen in the NBA. Every season, there are so many things that seem to come out of the blue, whether it be a team that was or wasn’t expected to be competitive or big trade that no one saw coming. There is just too much randomness involved in the day-to-day to be certain
Once upon a time, during a routine, regular season game, a well-regarded shooter was left alone for a corner three. Iman Shumpert, then with Cleveland, rushed to a hard closeout. Seeing Shumpert off balance, the shooter blew by him. After the play, LeBron James criticized Shumpert for his overaggression. Shump, understandably, was confused – he’s
With the 2019-20 NBA season less than a month away, we’re exploring the most interesting players for each team in the Pacific Division. We’re now less than a month away from the start of the 2019-20 NBA season. Coming off one of the most interesting offseasons in recent memory, it feels like an appropriate time
The post-Lebron era of the Miami HEAT has seen the team stuck in a cycle of being competent enough to compete for the playoffs, but not talented enough to take the next step. The team has only made it out the first round once in the past five seasons when they lost in the Eastern
The New York Knicks enter 2019-20 hoping for development and cohesion. As recently as this time last year, the Knicks expected to enter the season with at least one cornerstone piece in Kristaps Porzingis, a free agent superstar and a lottery pick added to the roster. Instead, the team experienced tremendous turnover, returning only six
What? You thought all the bizarreness stopped on Monday? Oh, no, dear friends. We’ve got some more to cover. The following plotlines that are soon to be mentioned below are not as wild as the ones that were mentioned on Monday. However, they still fit the ongoing theme of oddities that much be mentioned. Teams
Midway through leading the Sacramento Kings to their best record in over 10 years, then-head coach Dave Joerger compared De’Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley III to this generation’s gold-standard tandem of homegrown superstars. “…We have the next Durant-Westbrook,” he said in December. “That’s how good they’re gonna be.” Joerger is gone a few months later,
Marvin Bagley wasn’t always put in the best positions to succeed last year. For the Kings to unlock his and their potential, they must better utilize him. Quite often, optimization is what distinguishes draft picks who live up to the billing from those who fall short of expectations. Some teams view first-, second- and third-year
With another week gone by, we’ve officially flipped the calendar over to August. Preseason football is starting up, as is Team USA Basketball practice, which signals that fall is right around the corner. It also means NBA Training Camps are somehow only a month or so away. Can you believe it? So what better way
The Sacramento Kings have been mired in a playoff drought but made real progress last season. Is this the year they finally make the leap back to relevance? 33, 38, 17, 25, 24, 22, 28, 28, 29, 33, 32, 27, 39. This is not a LOST-esque sequence of numbers that holds some opaque, secret meaning.
The Sacramento Kings have a talented young core and a ton of money to spend. If they do it wisely, they have a shot at the playoffs next season. In a summer where many NBA teams have money to spend and a lot of notable players looking for new deals, it’s hard to focus on
DeMarcus Cousins seems have a solid market for his services, but he reportedly has some interest in going back to the Sacramento Kings. If not for an Achilles’ injury during the 2017-18 season while playing for the New Orleans Pelicans, DeMarcus Cousins surely would have gotten a max contract last summer. After signing a one-year
Harrison Barnes has put his signature on a four-year, $85 million deal to remain with the Sacramento Kings, keeping a fringe playoff core together. Harrison Barnes is staying with the Sacramento Kings. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Barnes officially put his signature on a four-year, $85 million deal with the Kings, which keeps a young, growing
Basketball Insiders has recently started a new series detailing the top free agents by position as a primer for the free agency period beginning on July 1. As a short recap, or if you’re looking for more pre-research, we’ve got you covered. Drew Maresca grabbed the point guards, then Jordan Hicks hit up the shooting
The Sacramento Kings are reportedly ready to offer Harrison Barnes a 4-year, $88 million deal to keep his talents in California’s capital. The Sacramento Kings are ready to overpay for keeping Harrison Barnes in California’s capital. According to a report from NBC Sports, the Kings are ready to offer Barnes a four-year deal worth $88
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