Some Extra Perspective on the Kings/Seattle Situation

Now that Sacramento has put in a bid to buy the Kings from the Maloofs, unless you haven’t had your mind, inbox or Google search feed/email alerts filled with it, here’s more perspective on the move.

(Disclaimer: I don’t for a minute pretend to understand the legalese of the matter.

If It’s Already Sold, Why are You Trying to Buy It? Continue reading

Future Sonics Need to Go Get a Big Name or Two

The Kings have won 17, 25, 24, 22 and 19 games the past five seasons. Obviously the second to last number was during a lockout-shortened season, but the winning percentage still equates to .333. Not very good. Not at all.

The Kings’ current group isn’t cutting it.

Last month I wrote a piece on the Kings’ to-do list. In it I said the team should start Thomas Robinson. That obviously isn’t going to happen. Robinson is gone, off to Houston, and the return is Cole Aldrich, Toney Douglas and Patrick Peterson. Not the biggest or best return, but fantastic if you consider that Francisco Garcia and Tyler Honeycutt’s collective contracts are gone.

The idea was inspired by an audio trinket on ESPN’s website. On it Bill Simmons and Ryan Russilo talk about trades they would make.

Simmons brought up a deal that would send Rondo to Sacramento Seattle for DeMarcus Cousins, Jimmer Fredette and one of the Kings’ Sonics’ bad contracts to Boston.

This is what Seattle needs, a big time player to build their team around Continue reading