It will be an unusual offseason for Kings head coach Dave Joerger, who grew accustomed to relative roster stability during his years in Memphis. While the Grizzlies never made many major changes to their core, Sacramento’s roster heading into next season is in flux.
The team could have two lottery picks and draft-and-stash prospect Bogdan Bogdanovic entering the mix — it also remains to be seen how trades and free agency will affect the roster. For Joerger, who will have an extra-long offseason to consider the next moves for his club, that uncertainty will complicate matters, as Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee details.
“I’m going to go crazy thinking, man, ‘I want to run this, work on this, and this is going to be great next year,'” Joerger said. “But you really don’t know how it looks until all those things come together.”
Here are a few more notes out of Sacramento:
- Rudy Gay said on Tuesday night that he remains undecided about whether or not he’ll exercise his player option to remain with the Kings this summer. Per Jason Jones (Twitter link), Gay says he’ll take it “one day at a time” as he continues to recover from an Achilles tear.
- Ben McLemore, who will be a restricted free agent this offseason, said he can see a bright future for the Kings, and can imagine being a part of it (Twitter link via Sean Cunningham of ABC10). We’ll see this summer if Sacramento feels the same way about the RFA guard.
- Speaking of McLemore, he failed to meet the starter criteria, meaning he’ll receive a slightly lower qualifying offer if the Kings make him a restricted free agent. For a full explanation of the starter criteria and how it affects QOs for potential RFAs, check out our breakdown from last week.
- Kings center Willie Cauley-Stein said on Tuesday that he’s looking forward to asking management what they want of him going forward, tweets Cunningham. Cauley-Stein saw his minutes fluctuate throughout the 2016/17 season, and suggests he wants to have a clearer picture of his role heading into next year.
Let Rudy go
It’s a player option if he takes it then he is on the team . Not sure if after he accepts he csn be traded or would they have to December to trade him if they wanted to. Kings have a ways to go but not sure who would pay him 16 plus million a year coming off injury. So if he wants the money I bet he will accept the player option . If it’s not about money then decline the option take prolly less money but chance to win .?
The best team for Gay would be Memphis, they could use his offense really bad.
Didn’t work last time. Memphis got better as soon as he left