Hear ye! Hear ye!
Gather round and attend the first reading of the herald’s chainmail. The honorable Will Griffith and the irritable Tim Maxwell shall host the proceedings. Have you a question regarding the Sacramento Kings or The Kings Herald? Draft a comment below and submit your query.
(Drops terrible impression of Jonathan Groff as King George in Hamilton.)
Will and I are here to answer your questions about anything regarding the Kings or this wonderful new site. It could be an idea for an offseason acquisition (Are we in the offseason? Who knows!), a trade proposal, a question about the Kings cap space or assets, a question about Bogdan Bogdanovic’s contract situation, a draft thought, an opinion about a player, or really anything else. We’re as flexible as Vox Media’s hiring standards!
Post your question below and we’ll pick the best of the bunch to answer in a few days. Don’t be shy! Ask away!
What were the more challenging aspects of opening up a new site?
deciding to keep Tim on board.
How dare you!
Fixed: How dare you keep him on board!
Didn’t some guy on an early thread already threaten to kick his butt?
I was just swept up in my emotions
Would a shutdown of this season buy Vlade and Luke more time in their respective jobs?
Certainly provides another excuse and Bagley some cover.
Gallo del Cielo is here!!
Reply fail! Did I get the first one on the new site?
Wooohooooooo!!!!!!
I always liked your chances.
Obligatory:
My all time favorite Christmas movie
I like our chances!
Do any of you still check on StR to see how crappy the content has become, just for the visceral pleasure of it?
I typed it in once out of habit. That place is bruuuutal.
I did this morning…the article was about a phone game called Animal Crossing.
Sigh, if we are going to mock let’s get it right. Animal Crossing is a first party Nintendo game, not a mobile game. Having said that, PCMR forever.
I did once to see how many comments it was getting. Then I noticed that their Twitter was following all LA accounts, then it was dead to me.
How many hours did the staff burn collectively to get this site launched? Also, what was the nastiest thing you found when you cleaned out the StR fridge?
Your chair?
Did you find your old pants?
Pants, shmants.
Words. There are none. Especially if one has actually met you. ðððð
Perfect. ððððððð
2 part question:
Number one: What would be the first thing you do once it’s safe to go out and socialize with humans again? Would it be to visit your parents? Get brunch with some neighbors? Play twister with friends in a park? Fly to Italy? Or ___________________________________?
Secondly, why do people smile and laugh when you tickle them if they profess to hate it so much?
That’s going to be ‘Go Bowling’ and ‘Eat at our favorite restaurant’ for the Mookie household
I bowled my first +600 series ever the last week of my bowling league, and was starting to consistently bowl well before all this shit! Obviously there’s bigger issues to worry about, but the timing was still annoying nonetheless.
My team won the championship. So, if we are looking for bright sides: the longer this plays out the longer I stay champ!
Nice! My team basically disintegrated in late February. One dude had to get shoulder surgery. Another dude worked at the bowling alley and got fired so he quit the league. The only girl on our team had to go to rehab! I was basically the last man standing.
and 1951’s team beat my team in our 3rd game to reach the playoffs too! I’m like the kings! always ‘one year away from being one year away’
Hobby-wise, have you tried or learned anything new during this time of quarantine?
For me, I’m doing another animation in Photoshop (including personalized dialogue from Janet Varney, known for voicing Korra from The Legend of Korra) after doing one last year. It’s a lot more complicated than what I did last year, but I can’t wait to finish it.
I’ve learned that we touch our face a crazy amount of times per day.
Also, I haven’t picked my nose now for three months.
Be careful. Then next time you pick a bugger your head may collapse before you can eat it.
Making sourdough bread!
I’ve lived at the base of Mt Diablo for like 3 years now. I never actually hiked around there until we had to shelter in place, and I started to get stir crazy. The place has been pretty empty and everybody is good about giving each other 6 feet of space on the trails, so I figure it’s a safe hobby to take up. Already got myself a pair of hiking shoes!
I’ve never hiked Mt. Diablo, but would like to do someday.
Have you ever done Mission Peak in Fremont? First time I ever did it my legs were super sore for the next few days. On top of that, the particular day we went it was super hot. But somehow we all made it to the top of the summit.
I’ve never been. I haven’t even hiked to the top of Mt Diablo yet! I got to Eagle Peak which is a little more than half way up the mountain and my legs were torched when I got back.
Wow dog that’ s a trip. I used to do a big ride there in April and we would enter the gates at dark and climb that mountain at sunrise, what a view. So memorable. I’ve heard the hiking trails are fantastic.
I’ve hiked all over that mountain. Used to ride my bike up and down it a bit, albeit back in the late 90s! It’s a great place to spend time.
Briones is underrated too.
The ride I used to do went ((((brrrrr)))) down Diablo after the sunrise climb, and then flipped over to Clayton and Morgan Territory before heading to Mt. Hamilton. We never turned NW to Briones, but I have friends who ride there from Sac and then take BART/Amtrak home. Always wanted to do that.
The trails are great. They have all these markers, so it’s pretty easy to know your way around. The folks with the mountain mikes are crazy. You’ll just be puttin around and hear someone yell “on your right!”, then they’ll blast by you doing like 40 mph down the hill.
My wife is the one who has a ton of work during this stay-at-home period, so I’ve been really trying to take care of her as much as possible. I bought a rice cooker, dusted off the slow cooker and pressure cooker, and have been really trying to up my “one hour or less” dinner game. I’m thinking mostly about when we return to work. Sometimes I feel like we’ve fallen into the convenience dinner routine and opt to grab a Raleys dinner instead of making our own. So this stay at home period I’ve returned to cooking with staples and non-perishables the way my mom and grandmother did. Rice and beans as a base kind of thing. I’ve scored major kudos with the wife, major.
I’ve also been riding my bike like crazy each night, and am shooting for the first 1000 mile month of my life. I think I might make it.
Hobby wise I’ve mastered Adobe Premiere Pro, going from intermediate to expert through a ten week workshop I was able to finish in about ten working days. It was hard but worth it. You can get lost in Premiere pretty easy but those days are now GONE!
I think a thread like this would be cool. I’d love to see what you’ve all been up to.
This is awesome! I studied animation in college but never pursued a professional career. Huge fan of the Avatar series too. I’m glad talented people can take advantage of these strange times. Nerd rant over.
By this point we’ve had a chance to go over Bryant’vs Draft board. What are the positions of the Kings you’d like to see addressed, and how?
General Manager.
Layup
As there will not be more college games, what would be your first 3 selections on the draft? Why? Players that could be in Kings range (12th). Thanks!
How will corona affect the salary cap?
I assume most of the writers were busy working on the new site the last few months, but I’m curious if anybody found some other way to fill the StR/NBA void these last few months?
I work in Home Health, and I actually started analyzing all this publicly available data from CMS. I realized I was basically replacing the time I used to spend on nba.com and bball reference. I even started coming up with my own advanced home health stats! My boss was like how did you figure all this shit out?! I had to resist the urge to say “well I used to spend a few hours a day discussing NBA stats, then got bored in March and decided to apply that hobby to my actual job”!
I spent more time with my kids…
…They are very happy that the new site is up.
LOL. I don’t have any kids (that I know of). I made the mistake of letting my landlord’s kids know I have a Wii. They always ask to play, so they can whip my ass at like swordfighting. It pisses me off so bad getting beat by a freaking 7 year old. I dominate at frisbee golf, so they never want to play that.
Love the avatar, btw. Epic!
I built climbable wall mounted stuff for my cats to climb on.
When do we get a Tim Maxwell-De’Aaron Fox grudge/cage/death match?
Now that we’ve all had time to digest the changes, I have one important question.
What are your thoughts on the 916 Crew?
I would rather have the dancers.
I follow the Kings, but I’m a 6ers fan first, and there are some fans under the impression that Heild is on the trade block. If true, what package of picks/players would it take to get Heild in Philly?
I also thought Heild was untouchable bc Vivek, the owner, is a big fan of his comparing him to Curry.
I have no idea if he’s actually on the trade block. I certainly think he should be. But I believe anyone on the Kings’ (and the vast majority of NBA players in general) should be depending on the return. I think there are a lot of ways to structure a potential deal. The simplest is probably something like Hield for Richardson (considering he won’t be picking up his player option. If he had more years on his team-friendly deal he’d be worth much more) + Milton/1st + Scott (salary matching). If the Sixers also want to unload Horford, which I’m open to, obviously it’s going to take much more.
What are the most important new doodads for Kings Herald? Purple for five recs?
I’d opt for a “Z” (new comment) key first. Pleased that Control F works here.
Agreed. I’m hoping that the Z key is at the top of the To Do list. Also, it would be nice to be able to see if someone has replied to any of my comments.
a temporary workaround for ‘z’ working would be if comments that were new from your last visit that in addition to having a darker grey color as they do now, had a marker like the word ‘new’ or something that you could Control-F and look for then cycle through the results.
edit: oh wait, the darker grey ones are all ‘responses’ to root comments, not new ones. rats.
I would like to see new articles about the Kings in the playoffs.
More realistically, I’d like the Fanpost section to be brought back so that non-staff could try out some ideas.
I’ll be interested to see how people primarily surf the comments, in lieu of a z key. I’ve tried sorting both newer and older. Would be nice if there was an alternate color for brand new comments (the McC champagne site has that functionality, but it’s only seems to work sporadically).
one thing I kinda prefer about this format is that there’s no subject line. Mainly because it annoyed me when people would just write the first word of their sentence as the subject, then write the rest of their comment below as if the subject line was mandatory.
Bite
me, Rory!
I miss the ability to bold, italize, quote, underline, etc….
You still can do that. You just have to add it manually instead of being able to click a button easily like you do on Vox’s platform.
Oh wow, really? Does this mean editing HTML or something like that?
Are you on board with the Trade Buddy talk? If so, what is the most favorable & the most realistic trade scenarios?
I’ve been a member for 20 yrs and happily signed up to sponsor the site but wondering what is your business model and plans for future
20 is nothing I have been a member of Kingsherald.com since it was invented
I would second the general direction of this question. What would be your motivation for the new site? I guess nobody got rich over at STR, but you probably could invite your better halves to a dinner now and then from writing an article. That seems still somewhat remote here. So what drives you to provide this high quality content? Just the fun of writing stuff? The feedback from the board? Getting press credentials to occasionally feast on the game buffets for the press corps?
Thank you guys so much for coming back, We really appreciate all the hard work on getting the site up.
My main question: How different will the Kings look in the upcoming season? (assuming this season has finished) Do you see the Kings making some big moves, or just continuing to develop the young players on the roster?
a. What are some draft prospects all the writers like and fit well with the Kings? (Bryant’s article and draft board was awesome, but would like to hear others’ opinions)
b. What are some realistic free agent targets that the Kings could be looking at?
Thank you for all your hard work and getting this community rolling. Long live Sacramento Kings fandom.
In Coach Walton’s recent comments on the team, he talked about how getting Harrison Barnes more looks at the 4 was ultimately good for the team. Do you think that this will have an impact on Bagley’s future with the Kings? Do you think he could be capable of playing Center full-time?
Quick technical question: do all twitter links require approval?
I see a “comment awaiting moderation” note. Just wondering how that works.
What is kingsherald.com checking for about my browser that will take about 5 seconds?
First post at the new site, exciting stuff! Giggity
Pretty sure it’s prostate related.
At my age, everything is prostate-related.
Why does the profile require pictures being a certain size? Or is this just a bug that has yet to be worked out as of yet?
Nevermind. I realize that’s the header for the profile vs the profile pic itself.
Nice profile pic, Kingsguru21!
can someone inform me on how to insert a pic/gif?
You can copy the link directly into your comment and then once you ‘Post Comment’ it will show.
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