Domantas Sabonis may need surgery for the avulsion fracture in his thumb, Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee tweets. The Kings center had an appointment with hand specialists on Monday to discuss whether the thumb needs to be repaired.
While he mends, Sabonis is open to hearing from the front office about potential moves. He said that if general manager Monte McNair and assistant GM Wes Wilcox have questions for him about roster construction, he will provide his input, James Ham of The Kings Beat tweets.
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- De’Aaron Fox will take lessons from his first playoff series, Jason Jones of The Athletic writes. Fox feels he and his teammates have to improve in order to become true contenders. “I know there’s another level I have to get to as a professional and our team has to get as well,” he said. “I’m grateful for this experience. The playoffs are everything that I expected it to be.”
- Harrison Barnes and Trey Lyles are among the players headed to unrestricted free agency. Malik Monk hopes the front office can keep the core group intact, Ham tweets. “I would love to have the same guys here because we’re all like brothers,’ Monk said.
- Sabonis is eligible for an extension this offseason but it’s unlikely he’ll agree to one, as ESPN’s Bobby Marks explains. The big man could get an additional four years and $122MM without a renegotiation but the extension is $132MM less than the five-year deal he could sign with the Kings after becoming a free agent next summer. It would also be $65MM less than a four-year max with a rival team that has cap space.
- In order to acquire another high-level player, the Kings may have to deal Keegan Murray and/or Davion Mitchell, Yossi Gozlan of HoopsHype opines in his offseason primer.
Kings future is bright
No its not. Unless they get a legit superstar theyre barely a play-in team. Steph will send them home in the playoffs no matter what for the next 5 years.
Warriors fans are hilarious. Like as a fan of a team, you could not have had a better decade. But you all still act like children when speaking about another team.
Guess what boss. That play in team just took the defending champion Warriors 7 games. And it wasn’t Klay. It wasn’t Draymond. It certainly wasn’t Poole. Hell, it wasn’t even Steph Curry. It was Kevon Looney. Every win the Warriors got in this series you can directly attribute Loons offensive rebound ability to them winning the game.
Warriors didn’t play great basketball all series long. The uncanny ability for each member of that team to hit the most ridiculous shot in the world when it matters the most carried them past mediocre play.
I hope you enjoy watching Draymond play Lebron softer than baby stool.
Did you say it wasn’t Curry? If anything it was Curry and Looney! But to say Curry wasn’t it after he averaged 33ppg this series and dropping a 50 in Game 7 kills your credibility!
Curry scoring 50 on 40 shots isn’t the brag you think it is especially with like 10 of those points coming in what was effectively garbage time.
Anytime Davion was on Curry he looked uncomfortable. If Sac’s offense wasn’t as limited as it was with Davion on the floor, he would have been seen a lot more minutes. Regardless, the Kings had at least the beginnings of an answer to Steph Curry.
What the had no idea how to deal with was Loon tenacity on glass, especially his offensive board ability. Sabonis, the league leader in rebounds, looked like a child out there. If Looney decided he wanted that rebound, he was going to get it. Oddly enough I thought Alex Len did great in his minutes with Looney on the floor and would have loved to see that more. Unfortunately for Sac, Kerr noticed that and refused to put Loon in if Sabonis wasn’t in.
Curry had a great series. I am not claiming he didn’t. But he did not kill the Kings. The 39th highest paid center in the league did.
For what it’s worth, I have more credibility to talk Kings ball than you have credibility to talk about breathing and blinking. Know your enemy.
Curry won’t send them home for the next 5 years. He’s already 35 and it doesn’t get easier at this point.
King’s future is definitely bright. They were the third seed in the very strong West this year and that’s no small accomplishment. They took the Champs to seven games and again that’s something to hold their head high.
I think the Champs left this one out on the table due to the coach playing the best 5 in the NBA together for only 36 minutes before game 7. The talent levels were clearly miles apart if GSW is playing its best lineup as often as possible.
Ya miles apart an old hobbled klay a draymond who won’t be there next year and a Poole on a max contract who shouldn’t even be in the d league
“Barely a play-in team.” Are you high?
And why hasn’t anyone made you the coach if you’re so intelligent
Always fun waking up to GSW homers!! Why you doing Kings dirty?
They have 2 all stars that are only 25 & 26. Fox is arguably AllNBA this year and they took the current champions to a GM7! and if not for Steph activating GODmode, they most likely would have won the series.
As for the article, I wouldn’t say they’re a “star” away, their team is good enough to compete with anyone, it was just inexperience down the stretch. Even If they don’t make a big move this same team would go further next year. I also think Murray has been the best Rook this year.(cue the outrage)
De’Aaron Fox definitely played like an All-Star in the series. He showed me a lot.
King will be back next year. This off season they need to find a good big man in the middle which was exploited. Sabonis is too slow to defend. They need somebody to defend the rim and play good defense.
Agreed he isn’t good on the defensive end. Brook Lopez would be a game changer for them. Excellent on D but on the offence he can sit in the corner and knock down 3s letting Sabonis attack the paint giving space. Nice idea but unlikely.
All these years Curry hasn’t won MVP but has won a title are straight up illogical robbery. How is the best player in the league not the most valuable to his and all other teams? They other teams never won? How on earth is choker Sabonis suddenly “valuable” to a team who didn’t win a thing? Corny. So wrong. Needs correcting. True stain on the league. Russ over Curry? Just shut up man, smh
I mean this year with the way he started all the NBA media was talking about him being the obvious front runner. A couple long absences with injury though and your out of the mix. Curry was an MVP calibre player when healthy that only managed to get into 56 games.
I wouldnt be shocked if he still is in the top 5 in voting just light on the playing time and a mediocre team record. He will probably be 1st team All-NBA though yet again.
Ah, the good ol’ mute button.
Sabonis to me is PF not a center. Looney ate his lunch. Why Len did not get a little run is beyond me. Is Holmes really that bad? Davion should blossom. Barnes is the one to go he was terrible when it mattered. Murray can become you star, IMO.
Looney should get some sort of recognition for his role in this series he was a board machine
Len doesnt shoot 3s. If you want to play Sabonis with another big you need a stretch 5 so your spacing doesnt go to sh!t. Its why him and Turner were together in IND since Turner is one of the best 3pt 5s.
Loon used to play PG in HS/college and tried at one point to get his 3PT shot back a couple years ago, maybe thats the project for the summer.
I said this along time ago that sabonis is a pf who cannot block shots. So they chose to put him at center so they need a shot blocking rebound presence at PF then( around their age). Thank you Harrison for everything( I don’t think he wants to come off the bench). Resign Lyles off the bench again. Murray should be a SF anyway. Or put sabonis at PF and find a defensive C.
Looney looked great because Barnes , Huerter , and company couldn’t hit a shot to save their lives. If they were anywhere near the season average Sabonis would have had his way. Looney’s gameplan was a good one. Stay in the key for 15 seconds and act aloof when you somehow bend your arm at a 45• angle while going for jump balls. The kings gave it their all but the moment ended up being a little too big for them . Guy who says the kings are barely a playin team is a typical warrior fan. Not a basketball fan but a warrior fan cough band wagon cough .
The Kings would be nuts to trade Murray
Murray & Mitchell for OG from the Raptors. Memphis offered 3 FRP for OG. Raptors want young players and a backup Point Guard who likes to play defense.
OG is 26 years old, 18ppg, / 6 rpg and top defender of all positions, -6’8″ -225 lbs.