July 7: Lyles’ two-year deal is official, the Kings announced (Twitter link via Sean Cunningham of Fox 40 News).
June 30: Power forward Trey Lyles is re-signing with the Kings, Chris Haynes of TNT and Bleacher Report tweets. It’s a two-year deal, James Ham of TheKingsBeat.com tweets.
The base value of the contract is $16MM, plus bonuses, Sam Amick of The Athletic tweets. There are no team or player options in the deal.
Lyles proved to be a valuable reserve for a franchise that finally ended its long postseason drought this past season. Lyles expressed his desire to stay late last season, saying he felt “at home” in Sacramento. Lyles has also played for Utah, Denver, San Antonio and Detroit.
Lyles appeared in 74 regular season games off the bench for Sacramento, averaging 7.6 points and 4.1 rebounds in 16.9 minutes per game. Lyles, who also saw action in seven postseason contests, played for a modest $2.625MM salary last season.
Absolutely earned it
Overpay. Was there a team that was going to pay him the non taxpayer MLE? I don’t think so
I don’t think it was an overpay. He was a spark off the bench whenever called upon. I like it.
He’s a nice player. I just don’t think there was another team paying him more than 12.4 mle
Well good thing he signed for significantly less than the MLE right?
Trey Lyles for 2 years and $16 million is a really nice deal and they did right by him.
Should of signed a different PF. Traded a first Rd pick to resign the same team
You’ve held on to this point for 2 days and through multiple explanations. Im not sure what you want anyone to say
This is a slight steal. I really like the team they’ve put together
My question is, Where’s the upgrade ?? They opened up w/ a $35m to play with. Yet they resigned 2 players that ate all that up. We went from 5 Centers on the Roster and now only 1. Both were good signings, but they paid them too much and there was better avail out there, such as Kyle Kuzma, Brook Lopez, for starters. where’s the upgrade ?? We were still bottom feeders when it came to Playing Defense. and Besides Sabonis, all the rest of them are poor rebounders.
Fowards not named Harrison Barnes and what they signed for:
Kuzma- 4/102 – 25.5 AAV
Grant- 5/160 – 32 AAV
Cam – 4/108 – 27 AAV
Middleton- 3/102 – 34 AAV
Brown- 2/45 – 22.5 AAV
The only contract that isn’t a horrible overpay is Johnson and that’s banking on his upside. He was a RFA and any deal would’ve been match by Brooklyn.
So which one of the remaining guys adds defense and rebounding? Grant? Is Jermai Grant better than having HB, Duarte, and Lyles?
Don’t reply if you answer is anything other than NO.
I didnt live in agony for almost 2 decades for people like you to pretend to know what the Kings need. Starting to think half the people on here talking Kings ball watched their first Sac game in January
I’ve lived in Cali all my life til 5 yrs ago when i got out of Commifornia. I watched them roll into town after leaving KC. I was a season ticket holder at Arco Arena in Northgate, so don’t lecter me about my Loyalty to the Kings. You know absolutely NOTHING dipshit !!
Very disappointed in the Kings so far. Kuzma and Brook Lopez should’ve been their targets. They’ll definitely take a step back next year.