With 42.1% of the vote, Cameron Carr is off the board for the Kings Herald Community Draft Board. He joins Labaron Philon, Aday Mara, Yaxel Lendeborg, Brayden Burries, Mikel Brown Jr., Keaton Wagler, Kingston Flemings, Darius Acuff Jr., Darryn Peterson, Caleb Wilson, Cameron Boozer and AJ Dybantsa off the board.
This is the readership’s opportunity to create a democratic draft board which represents the order in which we as a collective would like the Kings’ draft board to look like. It does not represent the desires of individual writers or fans, but some semblance of the community’s collective thinking.
When a choice comes up, pick who you’d want the Kings to pick given all the players remaining. Note: THIS IS NOT A MOCK DRAFT. This is a draft board, a ranked list of prospects you’d like to see the Kings pick. In other words, if we were the Kings front office, when our pick came up, we’d take the top name left on our board. So pick your choice, not who you think Scott Perry or anyone else would choose in a slot.
Explain your choice in the comments, and lobby for who should be added to the next pick’s choices. We’ll be doing this until the end of this week.
We’ve officially reached the delineation point where I am not really excited by any of the remaining prospects. I went with Nate Ament here, despite the fact that I think he has incredibly high bust potential and that I don’t think his potential can be realized in a place like Sacramento. But he’s a huge wing, and if he does develop right, that’s an invaluable piece for many teams, and at this point the Kings probably should be swinging for the fences instead of playing it safe. I do hope that the rumors the Nets are interested in him at 6 are true though, as that takes one player I want no part of off the board and leaves us with better options at 7.
Tomorrow will be the last draft board poll.
Knowing the Kings, they’ll try to make him some type of Point Forward, ISO creator, like they did with Keegan. If they select him after adding a pick in the teens, just find what he does best and let him do that for a year.
Voted Christian Anderson. Why? Shooting and better defender than Acuff.
He did better against Duke than Okorie.
Besides that dumb layup, those brick shots by Fox…we need a pg who can shoot.
Went with Jayden for the Jerryism when he slaps a nice block back at the opponent’s face:
“Nice to make your a-Quaintance!”
Is it concerning that less than 2 weeks away from the draft, the Kings have not worked out any projected 1st round picks (based on what the reports have shown)? Maybe these things are being done under the radar, but they have even only been reported as visiting with Flemings, and Perry had to go to Texas to meet with him. Dude didn’t even come to Sacramento for a visit.
I will say I think workouts are a bit overrated given all the data you should have on players beforehand, but they also aren’t all publicized so we don’t know for a fact the Kings haven’t met with some of these guys.
Also apparently Keaton Wagler is coming in for a workout with Sacramento next week per Kevin O’Connor’s latest mock draft https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/draft/
Morez Johnson, Jr.
I would have thought that MoJo would be the moniker. To the surprise of no one, not even myself, I am wrong. He has much better nicknames and for that reason alone, he is a wonderful fit for the Kings.
Most common nickname: Rez (shortened version of his first name: Morez). And if any organization needs a rez (resurrection) it is this moribund franchise.
Second nickname: Cheat Code for his defensive prowess (not by much, but that beats Off Night)
Ament, only because he’s mocked in most drafts in the top ten and here we are at #14. I don’t get the appeal of him, but far greater basketball minds think he’s going to be good. So… yeah.
Went with Ament here, though I almost wrote in Allen Graves.
Badge Legend