The Sacramento Kings may pursue Mitchell Robinson in free agency according to a new report from the New York Post.
“Sources around the league have pegged Sacramento as a threat to pry Mitchell Robinson away in free agency. Kings GM Scott Perry has long been a fan of Robinson after drafting him in 2018 as a member of the Knicks front office.”
This is Robinson’s 8th season in the NBA, all with the Knicks. His career averages are 7.5 points, 8 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks. He played in 60 games for the Knicks this season, averaging 5.7 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks. He is currently averaging 5.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, and .8 blocks for Mike Brown’s New York Knicks in the playoffs.
Robinson is on the last year of his deal. He is making $12.9 million this season and becomes an unrestricted free agent after the season is over.
Should the Kings sign him with Domantas Sabonis on the roster, minutes next season might be tough to find for Maxime Raynaud.
Leads me to believe that Domas will be traded this offseason for a non-center in return. Why else bring in Robinson with Max, Cardwell, and Domas on the roster?
Rekindle the trade to Toronto for a package of Quickley and Barrett, then somehow cut enough salary to sign Robinosn. Perry will then achieve his goal of recollecting all “his” Knicks players that peaked at 41 wins. Play-in baby!
Why get him at all? Just a bad idea from Perry. Always injured and can’t shoot.
Perry seems to Love non shooters. Zero faith he’ll fix this team at all.
It’s idiotic. They don’t need a gimpy non shooters. They don’t need fucking Kuminga. They didn’t need Russ and Shroeder. Get your head out of your ass Perry.
Yeah, Perry makes some weird choices.
Anyone that thinks Perry has a good record of building teams does not do their homework. He is here to be a yes man and collect a check.
Minutes should not be taken from Max. Trade Sabonis, don’t sign Mitch and continue to get young.
Agreed. Mitchell doesn’t make sense for a rebuilding team…unless Vivek told Scott that he need to make the play-in next, haha!!! Mitch won’t help with that, lol.
LOL, wut?
Not only does this not make any sense from a roster standpoint, the Kings can really only afford to give him the vet minimum.
The Kings aren’t pursuing shit in free agency this summer.
They can only afford to pursue a ham sandwich and cash considerations.
This move needs 2 things to be true.
1) The Kings view Raynaud as a 4.
2) They must be very confident they have a deal in place for Sabonis
I know this to be true because of the Kings history of never making dumbass trades.
I am back for only one comment. Ideas to bring in money.
First: Trade Monk to Lakers for Hachimura’s expiring contract. Lakers don’t need or want or can’t keep Hachimura. The Lakers would really like Monk and have said so. Monk’s leaving contract and Hachimura’s expiring contrack will save the King’s 42 million.
Second; Buyour DDR’s contract. Save 15 mil at the beginning.
Third:Wave contracts of Hayes, McDermott, Westbrook and Eubanks. Save 10 million.
Total savings 67 million.
Extras: Possible saving in trading Sabonis and or Lavine opting out of his contract would have huge savings but this is only hypothetical.
We still save 67 million to start this year.
With his 2025-26 season already ended, Hachimura is an unrestricted free agent; the L****s cannot trade him.
Similarly, the contracts of McDermott, Westbrook and Eubanks have ended; the Kings cannot waive them to save anything at this point. They cannot only avoid additional expense by not re-signing them.
do you have a poem for this post?
Back to Jack- yes cut DDR and try to get someone to convince ZL to opt out of Kings deal- say someone would offer him 25 M per year for 3 yeas instead of the 48 M from the Kings for one year. If the Kings tell him “Not in our plans, dude” then he sees his “value diminish after this year and he might be tempted to extend his career. Others a stretch provision?
Trade DS if they think Max can handle it and trade Monk.
Monk’s value is in shooting and you hate to lose that but need to rebuild.
JMAN- could the LAL do a sign Rui and trade Rui? but that might give him too much money and too much time.
I like Acuff- a lot depends on LAC- are they going to rebuild or make another un? We should give them Vivek so they will make another run In that case they bypass Acuff but the Nets take him or they might be interested in a 7 for a 5.
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Sorry…can’t help myself.
Thanks murraytant. Wrong on Monk trade for Hachimura.Have another idea.Bulls trade Josh Giddey and their #15 pick to Kings for their #7 pick. Kings still have 3 picks #15, 34, and 45 and a proven young 6’7″ point guard.
I think the Bullls hang up on Perry for that one. Giddey is a keeper for them and is on a good contract.
You don’t think the Bulls would go for a #4 and a #7. They could get Wilson and either one of the top quads and the Kings get Giddey and maybe a top forward
Giddey is a proven player, and a good one at that. There are no guarantees at #4 or #7.
IMO, a more realistic trade is the #7 for the #15 and a future first.
I like Robinson the player quite a bit, but not sure how to make sense of signing him considering the existing roster and current cap challenges.
Um, this. I like Robinson but unless Domas is gone, there’s no reason to pursue him and financially they can’t. This seems like typical off season rumors.
Don’t they already have a defense only center in Cardwell? What kinda shit are Perry et all taking?
Its a ludicrous version of reality.
Robinson serves zero purpose. He will not make this team any better.
Not to mention he’s always injured. Fuck these idiots
Ask Doug.
Ha. I liked Doug the analyst. Doug the color guy was bad and annoying. Doug the coach is an a-front to logic.
And competency.
In over his head.
He is a defensive-minded rebounder, so it’s not a bad idea. I would take on Sochan too and offer them Monk– this works well for both teams, as we have too many guars. A sign and trade, if Robinson isn’t under contract still works in order to get rid of Monks contract.
Apropos of bigs, do you all think Sabonis and Raynaud can play together?
Sure.
Is it a winning combo? I don’t know.
Does it need to be a winning combo upcoming season? Winning enough to stay out of the bottom 3…
suppose hypothetically Raynaud were on Orlando. Where would you rank him next to Wendell Carter, Mo Wagner (when healthy) and Goga Bitadze?
Below all three right now. But it will interesting to see how he comes back next season and can make a jump, especially defensively and physically.
Sure, but the team would need to play a defense that allows both to stay near the paint. The team would need to play a lot of zone (think 2-3, 1-2-2, 1-3-1) or a hybrid Triangle & 2 (two players play man-on-man on perimeter while there a triangle zone below that).
The Kings flirted with zone quite a bit last year, but to play two bigs that don’t(/can’t) player on the perimeter, the defensive scheme needs to be a mainstay principle for how they play.
Defensively those two on the floor at the same time outside of spot minutes would be a disaster. Sabonis is what he is on D, and Max needs time to grow and bulk up physically.
I don’t think it’s ideal. Maxi hasn’t shown to foot speed on defense to defend on the perimeter. He also hasn’t shown much rim protection. Ideally you’d want it to be like a Hartenstein/Chet double big set, but Sabonis and Maxi are not the defenders those two are.
Offensively, both Sabonis and Maxi are skilled players around the rim showing savvy moves and a number of shots, but neither has shown a consistent outside shot.
You’d better have some A+ perimeter defenders and outside shooters if those two are on the floor together.
Their stupidity/ego is staggering. It’s not that complicated.
Get rid of DDR, Levine and Russ if you can/At all costs. Get rid of Sabonis unless you build your O around him (ala golden state or what the Knicks are doing w KAT now). High post passer. Kings too stupid to even do that.
Draft and bring in the most talented players you can- regardless of position. Players that can SHOOT!
Hate these guys.
Does Scott Perry know this bottom five team is in the luxury tax this season? He’s not cutting salary without giving assets away. He tried to give an asset away with the Schroeder trade, and somehow managed to add salary.
There are no assets left on this team except for draft picks and Raynaud, so if we wants Robinson, some of those have to go to get other teams to absorb the mountain of bad salary on the Kings.
Perry’s apparent obsession with players he drafted and middling/over the hill vets (Jonathon Kuminga, George Hill, (old) Zach Randolph, (old) Vince Carter, Dennis Schroeder, De’Andre Hunter, (old) Russell Westbrook) is not going to produce winning basketball. NONE of those players were difference makers when he acquired or tried to acquire them.
Perry and Vivek both have smartest guy in the room syndrome. I can only imagine what a conversation between those two is like.
Who did Mitchell Robinson piss off to become the center of such an unsavory (for him) rumor?
Did you say rumor? Perhaps Anjali has interest in the big man. I trust her GM skills, on and off the court.
Randumb thoughts:
The Spurs are impressively in the WCF after amazing tank jobs in recent years and have two dudes that are likely two of the best players in the NBA for years to come and they’ve only been in the NBA a combined three years. Just a master class by the Spurs FO. And they’ll be in a position to flip Fox at anytime for young assets to prolong this potential dynastic run.
OKC laid the blueprint and the Spurs followed it to a T. Meanwhile, in Kangzland, we do the opposite.
Even the Wiz and Jazz have to be credited with their tanking efforts this past offseason, all while accumulating players that can help them win next season (AD, Trae, JJJ) all whilst the potential exists in the Wiz’ case of AD and Trae recouping their value and having good trade value to further build that young Wiz team. The King’s vets don’t seem to hold value per their contracts and cost a pretty penny to obtain to begin with (Zach for Fox, Domas for Hali, DDR for a pick swap). Just a dumb, putrid, shI!thole of a franchise. The last few years presented Vivek with an opportunity to tank and obtain a future superstar(s), and now with the changing lottery rules, that opportunity will never exist.
There is no hope.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Coach Brown. Good enough to coach a team that’s likely headed to the Finals, but not good enough to coach for Vivek’s ego.
Seeing the Kings FO-approved moves of Lavine for Fox, Domas for Hali, DDR for pick swap & Barnes all lined up together is so disheartening.
We as fans can take a few haymakers, but back-to-back-to-back is tough…and that doesn’t even include all the jabs & body shots:
Like I keep saying, If you didn’t know any better, you’d almost think it was intentional.
It’s pretty wild how quickly they tore down the first playoff team and success this fanbase has seen in near a generation. Losing a GM of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Clutch Player of the Year all in less than 4 months is remarkable. It’s like someone up top said, “No, can’t have any of that around here.”
It’s because that someone at the top wasn’t getting any of the credit, and we most certainly cannot let the dismissive little chap be….dismissed, now can we?
Vivek and the FO continually take the Bulls trash off their hands. It’s comical the solid Vivek has done for the Bulls.
Patrick Williams incoming?
Spurs are not going to be able to flip Fox for anything good. Bank on that, contract is an albatross for a non superstar
no
Limited to offensive rebounding.
Cardwell is Robinson or Robert Wlliams- lite and a lot cheaper
I am seething about winning one too many games and losing the coin flip with the Super Tanker Jazz.
I like Acuff over all the other PG’s and these dumb ass moves precluded that.
Trade DS to LAC, get pick #5 (get what should be there’s anyway) and draft Acuff, the only PG with “star” potential.
This is dependent on the LAC wanting to stay competitive. If they put Garland on the market, then they want a PG (Acuff) and this is dependent on belief in Max as a starter.
Flemings yes, Wagler ?, Burries- ok
Nets will take Acuff first and Flemings second so if Kings cannot trade up with LAC, hope they want to stay competitive and take Wagler for his size.
I am livid about their abject stupidity but what else can I expect?
Typical Kings mentality…
“Wow, we got a real gem in Reynoud! Let’s bury him on the bench.”
Sure, they may want to trade Sabonis, but as much as I love the guy, how many teams are going to be willing to take on that contract?
And if no one does, what sense does it make to sign Robinson?
This team…
As much as I like Robinson’s game, I don’t think he fits here. The other thing is he’s on a team that is one series away from the finals. You think he wants to go from the Penthouse to the Outhouse?
I agree that Sabonis’ contract is a problem (and I love the guy too). Personally I don’t think 30 is that old for a 5. So if you can’t move him maybe go back to the point/center scheme that worked so well for us several years ago? Go with Sabonis, Max, Cardwell, Precious and ???
I read a bs article the other day on Yahoo about a rumor of Sabonis to the 76ers for Embiid. Embiid is 2 years older than Sabonis and is held together with bandaids. NO!
This front office has painted itself into a corner.
OT: On a brighter note, I feel with Minny’s elimination, that 2031 pick could be worth its weight in gold. I think the current iteration of the T-Wolves has peaked. They owe a ton of money for the next 2 years to their core of ANT, Randle, Gobert, McDaniels, and Reid. They also have no PG on their roster.
They may have to reset in order to build around ANT or they face the real risk of losing him in 2029. I don’t see how they stay relevant as an aging capped out team going forward.
Depends on what lottery reform will look like at that point.
Which is why this front office will probably trade it away
Wonder if we can make money on Kelshi, will the Kings actually use this pick?
OT: I am looking forward to the WCF and how OKC will try to limit Wemby’s inside presence. Minny had the right idea of trying to push Wemby out and make him a 3 pt shooter, but the other players had no answer for Castle, Harper, or Vassell. Fox has always been hounded by McDaniels but Jaden can’t be expected to be everywhere at once, and was overextended on defense that he became a non-factor on offense. On the other end, Spurs might use Wemby to guard Chet and Champaign guy to watch Hartenstein, Trap SGA and hope AJ Mitchell doesn’t go off (why didn’t we get this guy?).
OKC in 6.
Back to topic: These sportswriters are betting on Perry’s Knicks stint in favoring his players to bring in. The report said “…have pegged Sacramento..” meaning Perry hasn’t said anything yet. It would be the same as them saying “…Iñigo has pegged Vivek as the six-fingered bitch.” No real sauce behind these reports, but could still happen with this idiotic FO.
Yeah, the NY Post article seemed a bit click baity. They were basically asking the hypothetical question if UFA Robinson leaves, where might he go, and the author theorized to the GM that drafted him. There is zero evidence in there.
Leverage season.
New York Post reporter carries water for the player’s agent, comes up with sources from “around the league”, and goes on to suggest the Knicks are going need to open up their wallets and pay the player.
Next.
I hope they are looking at Mikel Brown. Kings will probably resign Russ, cheap hire, helps coach up the young guys. Domas will never be on a winning team. Stop trying to get rid of Monk. He is a bargain. Money is going to drive what happens.
The Kings have been in the Lottery 29 times since moving here 85. They have only gotten the 4 or better 5 times. Bad luck or rigged? The one time we get #1, The GM, Hall of Famer Bill Russell. Never even talked to Nervous Purvis, and took him. This new lottery system will screw the kings. Go back to 7 envelopes with Team logo, they used 85-89. Tumble them, pick out the envelopes, 1st pulled is in 1st spot and so on. Then they open them. Kings 6 in 85, I was at the now gone Woodlake, 1st ever Kings Draft party. No race to the bottom.
Heh, we might actually be getting a Mike Brown-De’Aaron Fox Finals after just seeing Hali in last year’s finals.
Oh, and if the Cavs win, then Keon will be making a Finals appearance.
If Detroit won, Huerter would make a CF appearance too.
Vivek: “We surely know how to develop winners!”
Oh the irony! The two people Vivek threw under the bus for the Beam team’s demise.
As I see it, Mitchell only fits 4 of the 6 pillars of Perry players:
Highly Athletic – check
Cant Shoot – check
Doesn’t make other Better – check
Oft Injured – check
Turnover-prone – no
Mercenary – TBD
Looks like we may need to work on those last two to make him Kangz-worthy.
I have faith he can get there with a bloated contract. Let’s take the shot on him!
He probably liked one of Scott Perry’s dumbass motivational tweets.
OKC gets Sam Presti while we get Jack Handey.
I always keep Jack handy when the Kings are playing.
Much better than Perry giving you a Handy, Jack!
Lol definitely.
Is he still posting that stuff every week?
Probably.
If this team trades for Ja and/or drafts Acuff, while banging the “defense first” identity/play style, then I can’t take anything seriously that they say. It makes no damn sense.
It would be so Kangz to trade for Morant AND draft a PG in the top 10. It’s akin to when Kings drafted Fox, then handed out $57M over 3 years to George Hill. Or when the Kings signed Schroder to be their starting PG, then added Westbrook last minute.
You know was here for both of those deals…yup, Scott Perry.
Perry left for NY in 2017 four days after the Kings signed George Hill.
James Ham brings that Hill, Carter, Randolph offseason up alot when speaking about Perry. Says they were all good moves…dude, it sucked then and it sucks now.
The Kings want to move off of LaVine’s contract, maybe DDR and Sabonis so they can clear the cap sheet. Yet there is talk about Ja for LaVine, but Ja has an additional $45m for the 27-28 season. I really don’t think there is any plan or forethought in place. Just hanging stuff on the fly.
The only way I get behind the Ja for LaVine is if Ja comes with draft compensation. He’s too flawed, injured, and has an extra year on his deal to be a 1 for 1 swap.
Should Perry still draft a PG and trade for Ja in some sort of “mentorship” role, he should have his head checked. It wouldn’t be like having Fox and Harper in San Antonio. Ja and rookie PG would be the very poor man’s version of that backcourt.
No. Just, no. Goal is to be 4th worst team next year. ZL isn’t going anywhere. Just eat his salary and give him limited minutes. Don’t hamstring by stretching.
I agree, they shouldn’t stretch his deal, but I would encourage a buyout of his $49M. Give his agent permission to talk to other teams. Should a contender (I’m looking at you, Detroit) need his skillset and is willing to pay him $20-25M per year for 3 years, offer to buy him out at $25M.
That cuts a huge chunk off the Kings cap, LaVine still gets is $40M+ this season and gets to go to a team of his choosing to contend for a title.
Does Vivek have the cash to pay LaVine’s buyout? Is a buyout one lump sum payment?
Honestly, I don’t know. Could be, or it could be in monthly pay checks.
Related question, if they just let ZLs deal expire how much cap space will the Kings have. Additionally could then the team not improve, allbeit slowly but signing some decent NBA talent to fit the “talent” that’s on the roster
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