The Sacramento Kings announced that Marvin Bagley suffered a foot injury Sunday during practice. According to the team an MRI was performed last night and the team is waiting for the MRI results to be evaluated by doctors.
An MRI was performed on Sacramento Kings forward Marvin Bagley III last night following an injury to his right foot during Sunday’s practice. The team is awaiting further evaluation of his MRI from doctors and will share more information once the results become available.
One sliver of good news is that this is his right foot, which is not the same foot that was injured earlier in the season.
Injuries, especially soft tissue injuries, were a major concern as the NBA began to ramp up for play. De’Aaron Fox is also out after injuring his ankle in practice last week. An update on his status should come sometime towards the end of this week.
We will continue to update as we learn more.
Update: Luke Walton spoke to media shortly after Bagley’s injury was announced. Here are some statements from that:
We do not have an update. He is receiving an MRI. He hurt his right foot yesterday in practice on an offensive rebound. He came down on somebody’s foot and that’s all we have.
He was a little frustrated, obviously. He was another guy that was having a good camp. He looked great, he was flying up and down the court. Whether it’s him or anybody, when you put in this amount of time to make it at this level and you really want to kind of show what you can do, injuries can be a very frustrating part of the game. He’s going to have a very successful career when it’s all said and done, it was a bumpy year so far. This is another bump and you’ve just got to keep taking it and fighting and come out the other side.
Marvin has had to go through injuries before and he’s handled them great. So, hopefully it’s not too bad, but we’ll hear back and find that out, and the important thing is no matter what the news is that we attack it together and we’re positive about what we’re trying to build with him and with the group.
Harry [Giles] and Bjeli [Nemanja Bjelica] were the two fives today in practice. Bjeli did a great job at it. He gives us a different dimension with how he spaces the floor. So for now, that’s what it is, it’s Hary and Bjeli. We have Alex back, but he’s still got a lot of work to do before he’s ready to play games. We’ll be hopefully getting Richaun [Holmes] back tomorrow.
With the amount of injuries the team has had, Walton was asked if there is an issue with the medical staff in terms of the way players are being trained/prepared: No, the medical staff does a great job, they work extremely hard. Marvin came down on someone’s foot on an offensive rebound, that’s one of the most common things in playing basketball. So, it’s definitely not that. Our training staff is very qualified, they do a great job and they are very good at their jobs.
Just cancel this franchise and start over.
I mean, why the heck not?
Seriously forget canceling the season. Cancel the Kings and start over.
Contract the team and grant Sacramento a expansion team. Makes sense to me.
Let’s make a deal: Seattle gets the kings franchise, and Sacramento gets a brand new team via the expansion draft.
I anticipate that the expansion draft team will be the superior on-the-court product within 3 years of its creation.
Insert Marty’s cancel meme:
Sacramento Kings Franchise, how do you feel about BLM?
Only if the FO goes to Seattle with the team.
THIS
This only works if Vivek goes to Seattle with the Kings.
I was definitely including the FO and ownership in that deal
My bad.
Kangz Kancel Kulture.
Want a job with the Sacramento Kangz?
Homer would make a better GM than Vlade.
See you next year, Marvin…
See you next year, Marvin¦, and better not with this team………
Serious question: How is this good news? We have seen what happens when bigs start having chronic and varying foot issues.
Yeah I was going to say that recurrent foot injuries for big men usually means game over on their career. Any subsequent foot injuries don’t have any sliver’s of good news.
His limp will be less noticeable now with injuries to both feet.
The wheel chair should hide it.
The fact they didn’t say it’s an ankle sprain seems concerning.
Yeah, I have the same thoughts. For Bagley, it always seems to be a “foot injury” without any real specifics. That worries me.
sigh
The only good news is that this should, in theory, hasten the firing of Vlade as GM. Then again, they did just give him a 4yr extension for uh…building a team that only went 4 games under .500 rather than their usual 20+ games under .500.
-Vivek Ranadive
Quoted from: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/kings/2016/10/09/vivek-ranadive-kings-golden-1-center-nba/91837248/
Vlade has not shaved his head.
So not only does Vivek not demand much of Vlade (don’t worry about losing your job, Vlade–just your hair!), but for the little he does hold him accountable, he doesn’t even follow through with it.
Hahaha (as I continue to waste my money on this cursed franchise) hahaha, oh Vivek!
Ahhh, for fuck’s sake.
Might help with the odds of making the playoffs, but a real bummer for Bagley himself.
Yeah, whatever you think about him being our draft choice, you gotta feel sorry for the young man. This sucks for everyone, but most of all for him.
Get well soon, Marvin.
This is just priceless
Corey Brewer, starting center
They’re ready to take on the Rockets!
LOL. It has come down to this.
Positionless basketball!
Technical foul on DeCrotches Crotchins
Unretire Vlade’s Jersey. Fire all of the scouts. Get rid of the basketball operations team. Anyone involved with this decision needs to be removed from the franchise. This was a historically disastrous decision and that was before we discovered Bagley’s body breaks whenever he steps outside.
Trade Bagley for a copy machine
We already did. It copied Greg Oden. 😉
As I remember, even a coke machine logs more minutes on the court…
Bagley will complete two NBA seasons with 21 games being his largest consecutive game span. He has missed two or more games six times during this two year period (and that is counting this most recent episode as attached to his last run of missed games).
Doncic – 126 games, 4117 minutes
Young – 141, 4623
Jaren Jackson – 112, 3027
Bagley – 75, 1901
Nice arena, though.
At least he isn’t taking the ball out of
Foxesanyone’s handsI objectively, subjectively, spiritually, and agnostically do not like this. No. My right, left, top, and bottom brain. Again, no.
Just a minor setback to a major comeback!! ðªð¤
This is just the minor setback to the next minor setback to the next minor setback to a major comeback.
Bagley is just two more foot injuries away from being two more foot injuries away.
With the infamous 1st round pick Vlade traded away, and now this pick which isn’t amounting to much, that’s two drafts wasted by a franchise that needs the draft to rebuild.
Vivek, please hire a new GM. Do a thorough search of competent candidates.
Funny and sad to still look back at how the perfect draft scenario with very little room for error fell into our laps in 2018 and this front office did everything to fuck even that up.
To commemorate Vlade’s time as GM, they need to hang one of his trademark Kings polos in the basement.
They need to it mount above a dumpster behind G1C and it can forever be the Vlade Divac Memorial Trash Heap Award for Front Office Incompetence. It would reside permanently as it would be hard for anyone to be worse than Vlade has been.
We could easily have Fox and Doncic or Doncic and Tatum or hell even Fox, Doncic and Mitchell going forward as our core and we could be contending for titles. But no, we’ve got Fox and ………………………. I can’t wait until Fox requests a trade at the end of next season after missing the playoffs for the 15th consecutive season and tying the all time record. It’s going to be magical.
I’d love to be held acceptable!
I’m usually held to be unacceptable.
In the age of covid, no one should be held due to social distancing. Hence, we cannot hold Vlade accountable!
😉
CD should just pin that tweet since he copies and pastes that tweet anytime the subject of what a horrible pick Bagley has been.
I’m about the harshest Vlade critic, and the pick of Bagley was a colossal mistake any way you cut it, but I don’t believe he had injury concerns and I find it hard to hold it much against Vlade.
Having said that, this FO will likely use his injuries as a lifeline/get out of jail card, and only the thought is already pissing me of.
Yeah, I see what you mean, Rik.
I’m just really frustrated and feeling all blamey right now.
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“I’ve still got two working limbs!”
“I just have to have that next man up mentality”
-Yogi Ferrell, when asked about getting spot minutes at Center
Just use that low center of gravity, Yogi!
John Wall is NBA commissioner Adam Silver after gifting the Kings (McGee) the second pick.
Well, at least we won’t have to hear Peaches’ latest Vlade defense this time. Let’s just put Bagley on a high shelf with the rest of the brittle fine china.
“The last thing this franchise needs right now is more young talent or to have its young talent on the floor. That’s not how you win games and Vlade knows that. Trust me, Vlade will fix this and his foot!”
Oh yeah! I’m feeling better already!
This raises an interesting point. With Peaches gone and Dave pouting that the team that fired him also fired Peaches, who will take the mantle of the person that shovels the most BS for the team when things get really bad.
So now you are bagging on china being Brittle…
Now Klam .. Now
Exactly what the Kings needed to not make the playoffs. Perfect time for excuses. In part because you can’t control injuries.
Welcome to life as a Sacramento Kings fan.
Jeebus.
This is concerning because some of the so called “long haulers” who tested positive for an extended period of time tested positive some time after testing negative for the virus. It is currently unknown if they were re-infected or if they never recovered from the virus despite testing negative.
It’s amazing how much tests are spent on athletes when people with really important work during this crisis have to wait for days and weeks…
Yup. The NBA is getting a large volume of results back in a time span of hours.
Meanwhile, here is Sacto I know someone who got sick (idiopathic at present) and they can’t even get the test scheduled by their healthcare provider for anytime in the next handful of days and the results wouldn’t be expected for a week or so after they even get tested.
Our front office is idiotpathic.
If Sympatico means getting along and having mutual understanding with another,
can we start using Idiopatico to describe the Kings front office?
More like idiotpathetico!
Ya Kaiser has turned me down multiple times when I’ve asked to be tested because I have no symptoms. Kinda annoying
Can you play small forward?
Are we looking for a short, overweight, non defender that doesn’t rebound or shoot very well, but loves to pass, and has 2 reconstructed ACLs? If so, I’m fairly ready for a roster spot.
I got tested (in LA) because I thought I had symptoms. Just had to answer a question about it.
If you’re not feeling symptoms but think you might’ve gotten it by being exposed to someone, you could possibly say you have had headaches and I think you could get admitted to test.
I mean, if you’re a Kings fan, that’s probably always the case.
Yeah, there are avenues to get tested even without symptoms, although they might be county specific. I know you can make an appointment to get one through the El Dorado County website, for instance.
Since Kaiser operates on a model where they are both insurer and provider, they are all about cost effective healthcare. No way they’d cover the cost of a test without symptoms.
I would argue that Kaiser can theoretically provide better care because they don’t have a (separate) insurance company digging into their pockets. That being said, I’m sure you can find horror stories and stories of lives being saved via Kaiser. I’ve heard both.
I’ve had to get tested twice and each time the return time on results was about 3 days but I live in the Bay Area and my family in the Fresno area has had to wait 6-8 days routinely for results.
It’s because the NBA is likely paying out of pocket to a private company, not working through insurance companies.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
This shit is why I spent the last three days watching soccer, instead.
Hmmm, Tillman and Smith can play center. The next Draymond and Malone ..
Sounds like Tillman is returning to college.
In all seriousness, why is Smith not ranked higher? Is there a glaring flaw that I’m missing?
Basically, the shooting and off-ball interior defense are potentially good. But not much else.
He’s an interesting case because at first glance, you see the shooting and blocks and see a potential modern stretch big. The problem is he doesn’t really project to do anything else. Personally, my biggest concern (aside from being a complete non-passer) is that I’m just not sure he’ll be able to defend any decent NBA players. I don’t think he’ll be able to hold position against interior 5s on either end and his lack of perimeter defending skills/tools mean he could struggle even with agile 5s, to say nothing of NBA PFs and switching onto anybody else.
Personally, I’d say somewhere around the end of the 1st/early 2nd looks about right for him.
Cool. Thanks for the clarifications.
Does anybody know the safety word?
Can he play small forward?
Youngman!
Bap, bap, bap!
Based on the following forecast next up for Bagley is a head injury. Not looking good for the young man…
Everybody form a circle
Put your left foot in
Your left foot out
Your left foot in
And shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And turn yourself around
Now put your right foot in
Your right foot out
Right foot in
Then you shake it all about
And then you do the hokey pokey
Turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about
You put your head in
You put your head out
Put your head in
And bang it all about
Do the hokey pokey
And turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about
LOL
Sorry Sacramento, your GM sucks.
Luka- 6’7 230 lbs.
MBIII- 6’11 235 lbs.
Marvin Glassfeet is a bust.
Seriously.
Good luck adding weight to play center with those Cinderella feet!
Sorry, but this news just caps off an awesome year! ðð»
Petition to change the site’s name to The Draft Herald since we cover the lottery draft every year anyways.
Others under consideration:
Medicine Today
The Kings Harrowed
The Psych Ward
Masochists Anonymous
“Hi, my name is Kosta and I’m a Kings fan.”
lol Medicine Today.
Barnes’ 7 feet beard (and growing).
Kings’ 14 year drought (and drying).
I voted for “Welcome to Hell” and it still seems plenty appropriate.
What does Zack Lowe know?
Shams with some good news from the bubble:
Never would have guessed Bagley would wind up getting injured. They should have put Bagley in an actual bubble.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: Zero NBA players tested positive for coronavirus out of 346 tested at Orlando campus since last results were announced July 13.</p>— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1285315240205389827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>I’m like a hacker. Check out this sick “code” I designed.
IT’s hate him!
Yup .. small font too!
Dude, html is not code .. but, it is a run on sentence.
got some good news at work today. I decided to reward myself with some fine dining for late lunch:
You can take the boy out of the college but…
…7-Eleven pepperoni pizza is the best gas station pizza to my knowledge.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQFNtZBLcT_oCL0hhDwN3zJBViMq3U-PuiLNg&usqp=CAU
This was supposed to be a “Pizza in a cup” photo from the Jerk!
Another satisfied “RORDOG Teaches Code” customer!
I was in a 7-11 yesterday and saw a pepperoni pizza in that heat machine by the register and thought of you, RORDOG!
Little did I know you were thinking of a pepperoni pizza at the time.
It’s extremely heartening to know that complete strangers think about me when they say see an old pizza sitting under a heat lamp.
by “complete stranger” I meant never met in person. We’re all friends here obviously.
Except Greg. We are not friends! 😉
ð¼I’ll be there for youuuu (Except for Greg!)
This Gas Station Pizza Guy label seems worth holding on to.
LMAO
UPDATE: We do not have an update
First caller on with Doug and Jason had an excellent point;
Kings just need to go out in the off-season and get themselves a superstar.
Like Luka Doncic?
Not sure why this got down votes, because it is the sad truth of what should have been. The Kings blew their franchise altering move. Plain and simple.
I don’t think they had the guts or the vision to pull off a De’Aaron/Luka pairing. I really don’t. And it required them to shuffle the roster in a way that they would haven’t been able to pull it off, IMO, for that matter.
Bottom line: This group running things is so bad, they can’t make quality players work in their scheme. Whatever the hell that is. Bagley fit the roster better, and the fact that was a concern should tell you alot about the group running things. All these years later, they still don’t get it. I’m not sure they ever will.
Well, the cringeworthy painful truth is that he even didn’t/doesn’t fit the roster better.
I don’t get this point at all. I think it’s a no brainer Bagley fits the existing roster better.
The assumption that Luka Doncic is a plug and play guy is not something I agree with. He plays with the ball in his hands, and he plays with guys who play well off a player with his abilities. The Kings don’t have those guys in the same way. They also don’t have, ahem, Rick Carlisle.
You can’t make Fox and Doncic work as a pairing, it’s not exactly a no brainer.
Just leaving this here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bowie
A national sensation in high school and outstanding collegian .., Bowie’s professional promise was undermined by repeated injuries to his legs and feet.
Projected as a solid first-rounder in the 1984 NBA draft, Bowie was chosen by the Portland Trail Blazers as the second selection, ahead of future Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, due to Portland already having drafted Clyde Drexler just a year before
OT: Loving the site, you all are doing a tremendous job. But having multiple pages for comments is fascistic communistic authoritarianism, and might be destroying the fabric of America.
Having to click ‘next page’ to own the libs. ð
Page two is because of Antifa, or George Soros, or something like that.
Wayfair and Amazon are selling stolen single-paged comment sections advertised as overpriced Kings draft picks.
We should make a trade with STR.
We give them our multiple page comment format in exchange for their single page comment format.
Since they’ll never need a second page for comments, we may need to throw in a sweetener.
Give them Otis as a kicker.
It was you or Klam, and Klam posts better gifs
We might as well send them Rob’s pants. It’s not like he uses them.
Meh, it is better with the Darth Kitty 😛
Good idea though, I lean cat.
The Kings will always have this guy named Marvin.
And lost in all of this……the brilliant move to not pick up Giles option.
Since lets look at the healthy options for C …..Bjeli and who am I missing?????? Thats right Giles.
Corey Brewer, apparently!
(I love Corey Brewer, though)
At least when they are ready there will be more opportunity for Holmes and Len. They play hard, defend, rebound, and play within themselves. Could provide a consistent defensive scheme and less drama for the bubble.
Yes for Holmes. I personally dont think Len will be playing this Summer League/Training Camp Lite after testing positive for COVID for 20+ days.
Between Bagley and Giles, there might be enough working parts for one NBA player. But, hey, both said they really wanted to be here, went to big schools, and Vlade could watch them on TV in college without getting to the part of his TV package that confuses him.
All Kings fans, right now, what we really need to do is to hope, to beg, Harry Giles can stay with us…(may sending our wish via his IG/Twitter), and sign a long contract with us, so as to compensate the loss of Mr. Glass Busty……..
Harry Giles &
Luka Doncicis our saviour……..C’mon the 5 is easy to fill, they are a dime a dozen, especially the guys Vlade likes. I just wish he would quit using First round picks along with the dime!
Page 3 Impressive, nothing like an injury to bring the comments. WOW
At least we still have Parker and Giles……..all our hope goes to them….
Wow, that’s three fragile guys
It’s gotta be the shoes. Ya think they might have anything to do with it besides FO FU
Getting one step closer to Greg Oden/Bust/Injury Prone Label.
So, I had a night to sleep on this. Sorry for the shades of Kings Guru length.
Assuming he is done for the season (he could walk it off and be back withing 10 days, right? Right), this may have a positive effect on the play-in chances, in case Fox comes back and the rest of the group is ready to play. Bagley was a net negative in most games e played, and now the pressure is off for Luke to force-feed him minutes.
People on Twitter are arguing that all his injuries were caused by occurrences which are not to blame on Marvin (getting hit on the thumb, landing on body parts of other players), as a counter to the label “injury-prone”. WTH?
I think the word injury-prone is self explanatory; if someone is frequently getting injured, that’s it. Something is wrong with Bagley missing plenty of games due to a myriad of injuries. Whether it’s the Puma shoes, a weak bone structure, a wrong training regimen, the absence of Youngman or something else altogether (or all of the above), the best ability is availability and Bagley has been unavailable for much too long and often.
Some of the same people are railing against the idea of cutting your losses and trading Bagley for 2 cents on the dollar. In principle, I get that idea. Marvin is still young, has potential and could grow to be a decent NBA player. Will it happen? I don’t know. Will it happen in a Kings uniform? I don’t think so.
And there is the rub. Bagley has raw potential, but he is without any shadow of a doubt, a project and needs to be properly developed. I don’t trust the Kings to do that properly. I don’t trust Bagley and/or his dad to accept the long road outside the glare of the spotlights that it will take. I also don’t think the environment in Sacramento – with Luka’s shadow over his head and the lack of patience from fans and ownership – is the best one for Bagley. Also, one or two more injuries where he will lose substantial time and his (trade) value truly goes down the drain.
Is this all fair to Bagley? Of course it isn’t. But it is even less fair to Kings fans, and we do not get paid to deal with this shit.
Ultimately, this matter is (yet another) indictment of the FO and ownership. I don’t trust Vlade, Vivek, Matina and Co. to make the right decision, and to make the right follow-up decisions to put this franchise on the right path to relevance. Instead I expect people like Vlade and Luke, who are fighting to retain their job (because in all likelihood, neither will get another shot at GM and head coach in the NBA) and to make all the wrong decisions and line up all the sad excuses.
#HereWeBillboard
This is the truth, and it hurts.
Luke might get another job. He is young and had past success. He will almost for sure get an assistant coaching job if he wants it and could get another HC down the line. With Vlade there is no possible way anyone would ever hire him as a GM again.
Past success? As interim coach of one of the best teams around with an established gameplan? Or by guiding a LBJ-led team to a .451 losing record?
I believe that in the NBA-carousel he will get another chance as an assistant. But he’s not prime head coach material, IMO.
I agree with this mostly. I am not as down on Luke as some but I think it is safe to say Vlade and Vivek are the bigger issue with the franchise. I still believe in Bagley the talent and I still think it can work in Sacramento for him but his time is running out quickly.
Come on, even Divac and Vivek were even more impatient than us…
Look at how the FO treated the option of Giles, which revealed how short-sighted they were.
If other 29 teams offer two 2nd round pick for Bagley, I even think the FO will do this trade.
Bagley’s time in Sacramento is running real fast….
Problem is, trading Bagley now for two 2nd round picks is a public proclamation of failure.
It’s like admitting at a press conference: “We had a better
offerprospect two years ago.” Who does that?…and so they’ll let him expire. (((((((sigh)))))))
I would have thought the Kings front office would be experts at the sunk cost fallacy by now but I suppose not.
So are you saying this is still relevant?
Yes, my friend.
Sadly, it is very much relevant.
I was listening to Zach Lowe’s pod with SVG. It’s obviously excellent, and everyone should go out and give it a listen. The one thing I wanted to point is what SVG said when Lowe predicted the Pelicans could win 50 games next season. He basically said where are those wins coming from for a team in the West? Golden State and Portland will be fully healthy next season. Minnesota could conceivably get better with DLo in the mix. Memphis is already ahead of schedule on their rebuild.
Basically, the moral of the story from the Kings perspective is next season would be a great year to tank since they don’t have a realistic path to the playoffs.
So he didn’t mention the Kings? He’s part of the national media conspiracy!
With this front office they could tank for eternity (basically what they’ve already been doing) and it wouldn’t matter at all with this front office. If Vlade is here this team has no opportunity to be competitive.
This is a 1 page short story. You wanna match me on style points, you had better write Tolstoy length stuff.
You do not pass GO, you do not collect 200$, Dutchman.
Marvin Bustley strikes again.
Something ain’t right.
“Kings coach Luke Walton says there isn’t still an update on Marvin Bagley III and the MRI he had yet. ð¤ð¤ via Sean Cunningham (@SeanCunningham)”
Hes going to get shut down. So he will get a total of 2 offseasons at a minimum to recover.
Who will play more games in their career, Michael Porter or Marvin Bagley?
The front office is still trying to figure out to spin it.
Another attempt to embed a tweet:
Nah. i’ll just post the link.
Oh, that does work!
He isn’t coming back. In a walking boot!
How did you post that tweet? I’ve been trying to imbed them.
I copy-pasted the link to the tweet.
Go figure…
Bro’s I’m straight up not having a good time
You’re a kings fan – you gotta find good times separate from our local NBA team winning. If you only have a good time when the team does well….. you’re gonna have a bad time!
I must say, I would have not have expected that Giles would be the more reliably healthy player between he and Bagley when they were drafted.
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