The NBA held its tiebreaker coin flips on Tuesday to finalize the lottery order. The Sacramento Kings were in a three-way tie with the Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Pelicans. After the tiebreaker, the Kings will have the 9th best lottery odds.
NBA Draft tiebreaker results:
No. 8: Chicago Bulls*
No. 9: Sacramento Kings
No 10: New Orleans Pelicans*May be conveyed to Orlando (if outside top-4 post-lottery)
(pre-lottery drawing)
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 25, 2021
With the 9th best lottery odds, the Kings have a 4.5% at the number one overall pick, and a 20.3% chance at the top 4. The Kings have a 50.72% chance at picking 9th, and 25.9% chance of picking 10th.
The Draft Lottery will be held on June 22nd and the Draft will be July 29th.
Typical.
We only move into 9th place AFTER the play-in…
At least we were in the play in tournament for the lottery odd to get higher pick! I am just waiting for McNair to say the other GMs came up to tell him he manages hard to get us to the lottery
Pretty crazy that they are holding the draft lottery on July 29th, which is after the actual draft. 😉
Greg ruined the draft lottery.
He thought it was a marriage.
The draft is july 29th, the lottery is june 22nd, I am an idiot always
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I thought the Draft itself was July 29, not the lottery?
Good thing we really started to gel and won all of those late-season games with all those players who won’t be on the team next year. When do they hang up the “Almost Finished 10th Out of 15 in the West 2021” banner?
It’s wedged right between the “Hey, 2020 Was Rough On Everyone” and “15 Years Of Futility: Sacramento Strong” banners.
Heres a banner for the Kangz
So the Kings will likely pick 9th this year, but they picked 12th last year with an identical record. Does that mean more teams got better, once again, while the Kings wallow in purgatory, or did the Kings actually get worse?
I have the answer…
C. Both.
It’s not a Kangz draft if we’re not slotted between 7 and 10.
Barring Monte’s unicorn trade, it will be the same next year.
Groundhog’s Day is the life of a King’s fan.
Does the unicorn trade take us to the top of the lottery or into the playoffs?
I can’t wait to see how Porzingis and Otto Porter Jr enjoy finishing 12th in the West.
As a tangent, assuming he’s going to get something like the MLE or less (potentially much less), I’d consider taking a gamble on OPJ.
As soon as I saw something this morning saying he’s unlikely to stay in Orlando, my first thought was, Kings are gonna try and give him too much money, aren’t they?
We’ll see. I mean, he’s only played 42 games the past 2 seasons combined and wasn’t exactly a picture of health before that. I could see him ending up taking a cheap, short deal to try to bounce back and earn another decent contract.
If the Kings are targeting Porter Jr.it better be MPJ and not OPJ..
If Mcnair is waiting for his Harden like trade, MPJ fits the bill. If the nuggets aren’t willing to pay MPJ the max, the Kings should see if they could pry him away from Denver by offering our 2021 FRP and players not named Fox and Hali
Why would the Nuggets trade MPJ?
I’m not saying they would. I just want the Kings to explore the possibility of a trade especially if the Nuggets aren’t willing to pay MPJ the max. Of course they don’t have to extend him right now since MPJ has 1 more year left on his rookie deal. All I’m saying IF they don’t want (the nuggets) to pay MPJ the max then they might entertain the possibility of a trade this off season.
I mean, sure. Kick the tires on anything and everything, but I have a really hard time seeing a world where the Nuggets aren’t thrilled to have MPJ on his contract for another year and the ability to hold onto him for the foreseeable future with whatever deal he gets. I mean, is there a team in the NBA that wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign him to a max deal if they could?
Yeah, someone (BHE or Adamsite?) pointed out that you have to pay Porter little enough that if you get nothing out of him, it’s a worthwhile risk. I think the Kings should go for it if the price is right. Porter is better than Barnes if he’s healthy. Very big if at this point.
Yeah, we were talking about both OPJ and Justise Winslow in that way.
On what planet? Barnes is hitting his prime right now. I guarantee more improvement the upcoming season. OPJ is beyond his. Not due to age, but due to ceiling. Plus Barnes would work OJP in the post. Mouse in the house.
The Kings are moving up in this draft. BRING IT DRAFT GODS.
Welp. Lets hope the Kings get lucky and jump into the top 3. If not, I’m fine picking at 9th. Lots of talent on this draft class.. Hope Monte and the FO is doing their due diligence!
As is the case the lottery could fall in our fortune, or the player that is among the classes best ending up picked at say 9. But all those things are less likely in the back end of the lottery than the front. Of course the Kings can even mess that up when the pick is obvious as demonstrated two drafts ago. Yet again thats harder to do at 2 than 9.
The Kings lack of maxmizing being a bad team is possibly its most destructive habit over the past decade. One by all the playoff rhetoric they are repeating. It makes this lack of lottery optimism famliar to say the least. Fingers crossed for the unexpected yet again.
I’m not sure that there’s ever been a better single-sentence summation of the Kings organization on this site, or the other one.
A general lack of self-awareness. The Kings are me challenging Eliud Kipchoge to a marathon instead of a sumo match.
This place is so damn negative. Ham says they made strides.
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Sure, Mr. Ham…NetRating:
2018-2019: -1.2 (18th)
2019-2020: -1.9 (21st)
2020-2021: -3.8 (24th)
Things appear to be going swimmingly.
Edit – nevermind. Marty beat me to it.
To be fair, the headline does not state which way the Kings are striding.
But it did!:
“James Ham”
Ha! Ok fair point.
Good photoshop, but with Vivek, you need the shaka sign. It is known.
15 years of futility – seems like the Kings have totally maximized being a bad team. it’s hard to be worse…
Exactly…maximized being bad in the worst way possible.
All well said. It really is amazing to think that each and every other 29 teams in the league gone from competitive to non competitive and back to being competitive all while the Kings have their thumbs up their asses. EVERY TEAM has cycled through rebuilds while the Kings pray to the lottery gods.
But we are the only ones who got pink’s with Vivek so that says it all right there.
Kings better have 12 players on their draft board in case the unthinkable happens and they drop all the way.
Well we did hit the jackpot at 12 last year.
And they blew it when they got the No. 2 pick.
Maybe we should be rooting for them to fall back.
Come on Tankathon, spin baby, spin for daddy!! Nope…still 9th…
Great draft last season and won same number of Games ! Five teams that had worse records than the Kings got zero help from the draft and improved greatly ! Dubs, Wiz, Knicks, Suns and Hawks ! It was trades, FAgency and coaching changes ! Another 19 year old another lottery next season if that is all !
Assuming this pick is not top four, I’m finally ready to trade for a veteran. It took 15 years of no playoffs, but let’s do it.
I’ll make a prediction here. The Kings are going to let Holmes walk and trade Bagley and Buddy to OKC for Al Horford, with one of OKC’s young players coming back in the deal.
Then they’ll try to deal the 2021 and/or 2023 first with other players (Barnes) for a (minor?) star player. (I don’t know who).
It’s all in for the playoffs next season, the future be damned.
Not sure how the math would work or whether you can even do it, but a sign and trade for Holmes and Bagley to OKC for Horford plus a young player or pick would be exactly the type of move I would expect this front office to make.
Curious, so generally what might the logic be for OKC wanting to do this? I don’t see OKC wanting to do this type of deal. Mainly I mean taking on the extra 1-2 years (Horford partial guarantee) of big salary for Buddy…or even adding a larger multi year on Holmes.
Would Horford be more attractive for them to use as an expiring (or near) at this deadline or the following one? I’m kind of guessing they don’t really want to be good again next year and then try to pounce as Horford contract expires and this years draft pick has some seasoning…go Star hunting with a cleaner cap at that point. Definitely be interesting to see what path they take the next 1-2 years.
Remember that OKC sat a healthy Horford for a third of the season. They get to unload a declining Horford, who is still owed ~$42 million. It’s not necessarily an easy deal to move.
Hield is owed about $8 million more than Horford the season after next, and then his final year is at $18 million guaranteed.
OKC gets a former #2 pick who has shown some offensive promise and is on their timeline, along with a useful, if flawed shooter, for an old guy they sat for a third of the season and clearly don’t want.
Effectively, they get Bagley to dump Horford’s bad salary and accept Hield’s less bad, but longer salary.
I don’t think there’s much chance Buddy Hield makes that team better enough to matter next year.
I mean if they sit SGA the second half of the season again then yea. If he plays ð¤·ï¸
The thing is, with their current pick and cap situation, there’s no reason for them to wait. Even with Horford and picking up all options, they’re $60MM under the cap for next season. Meanwhile, Horford is a quality makeweight if they want to deal for a star already on a max-ish deal. Now, I’m not saying they’re going to be jumping at that Kings deal, just that I don’t see any reason they would need or want to wait out Horford’s deal.
Fair, if they use Horfords deal in the star trade to balance salary. Then yeah they could move sooner. Just don’t see why they would want 35 million of Buddy and Holmes on the books for next few years.
Buddy and Bagley or Bagley and Holmes. Not Buddy and Holmes.
Buddy can recoup his value playing for a young team not looking to compete. They flip buddy to a contender for another future first.
Ehhh. Would feel like he would have to take a real jump. Don’t think just getting more shots is going to trick GMs into the idea he is improved.
If the thunder can do what you say and get that for Buddy with slightly improved play, then it feels like Monte should be able to get rid of Buddy now for little or nothing in return…which I don’t think we know for sure he can do currently if Buddy is a net negative asset. Which we don’t know
A change of scenery can do wonders for some players. SA couldnt wait to get rid of Bryn Forbes, and now he’s killing it for the bucks. Same with the wolves and wiggins. He’s played great for the warriors, and they got an extra first for him. Kings should be doing what other teams do with us, look for players with depressed value due to mismanagement or injury.
On any other team that works. We are the hub of mismanagement. It’s the whole two wrongs don’t make a right. Last thing I want is a guy who has been mismanaged and is coming here to iron out the kinks.
I’ve got one simpler than that. Kings send Buddy, Bagley and the #9 for Myles Turner and Jeremy Lamb.
Sorry, I’ve already traded Barnes for Turner.
Is Myles Turner actually getting us anywhere? I get that he’s a good defensive player and he’d make us a better but he seems to be hurt a fair amount. Are we a playoff team with Fox, Turner, Barnes, Haliburton and Delon Wright? There’s still almost no decent wing depth. Sounds like that’s maybe a play-in team in the west but more likely another 12th place finish and another pick in the 8-12 range.
I fully believe they’ll mortgage the entire team’s future to hit the #8 seed once.
I don’t fully believe it but I think it is one of the likelier scenario’s.
Counterpoint: What future?
You mean the 10th seed, because we all know they’ll count making a play-in game as “making it.” I can see the forced posts from the social media team already.
I concur but they will still miss. It is the way. ð¤ð¼
Yeah after what we saw this year I believe you’re right. It’s the Minnesota model of team building. Hit that 8th seed once then begin the cycle all over again.
Not on his own, no. He certainly makes the Kings better (when on the court), but this team isn’t one non-superstar move away from being a competitor. But Turner and a savvy move for a high-level wing defender that isn’t a total loss on the other end? Then I think you’re talking about some movement. Ultimately, I think this team needs at least an average-starter-or-better level big and wing to really start expecting to compete for a playoff spot.
I truly don’t think it matters what the roster is as long as the coaching is this bad.
I could buy that they would do the Turner deal, but does #9 plus Barnes get Turner anyway? If yes, you still have Bagley, Buddy and the 2023 pick (which I think is in play to win 45 games next season) to deal.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Turner could be had for less than that.
I’ll tell you now, Carl, I’m not doing that deal.
I will also say I will lose all faith in Monte McNair’s ability to judge asset’s if he does that deal.
I think McNair is desperate to make a deal(s) that will get this team to the #8. I think the chance of the Kings actually using that draft pick is extremely low. Really it depends on McNair stirking out or continuing to stubbornly overvalue Kings players. And I’m less than sold on Barnes. Sell high.
Conversely I’m not buying that dismissive little chap is still the one overvaluing. Hence the going for it this year and buddy is steph just wait talk.
I think McNair had that look in his Luke Walton presser of a man that has realized the hell he stepped into.
As of today, I’d much rather have Barnes alone than Buddy and Bagley combined.
A little cap relief, swap Buddy’s 3 years for Turner’s 2 years, get rid of 2 immature guys…I’m in on this deal.
I’m all for a shake-up. This seems as plausible as any other scenario.
it would just be sooo Kangz to make moves and get a star; and the team actually be worse next year than they are this year.
Cory Joseph is a veteran.
Ninth?
It’s party time!
Glad we went all in for the last month.
It was a really smart decision by all involved.
If the pick doesn’t jump into the top four, flip it and Buddy in a trade for a starting vet. I could see Indy making a move, whether that’s Sabonis or Turner who knows. A quality big to pair with Fox and Haliburton would go a long ways.
Too many scenarios¦. Not many end with the Kings being a good team.
They seem to be the definition of They looked better on paper.
I’d like to have this image at the bottom as a T-shirt:
https://twitter.com/JTH__/status/1397501771426275329?s=20
This is just absolutely right…..
I am not talking about the 2018 draft…….and don’t want to waste more time to discuss it again..
what I agree with the article is we are fxxKINGStupid that we don’t fire the coach…we drafted well, but would be continue to sucks as we retain Walton…
we are going nowhere AGAIN…….and the media would still made laugh on us…..
Peaches, in Luka’s 2nd year: “Yeah, if Luka is so great, why hasn’t his team made the playoffs?!”
Also Peaches,: “Vlade is a uniter, he will unite this team and do great things!”
Moron.
For a guy that watched as much basketball as Napear, I never got the sense he really knew the game.
Shills gotta shill…
Yeah, I don’t even necessarily mean his discourse regarding the Kings. Back in the day, when I actually listened to his show, I never found his point of view compelling on any sport, and specifically the NBA.
The only thing Grant really knew, or cared about, was Grant. It was clear that he valued his connections and relationships above all else… until they left Sacramento and/or no longer had any influence on his own professional standing. Then he would slime and smear them as if he hadn’t spent the last several years pretending to respect them or be their friend. I’ll never forget how he totally destroyed Pete D on his radio show like a year after the man left, calling him a jerk and an idiot and a bad person, etc etc., after never once saying/implying anything of the sort when Pete D was here. I mean, Pete D probably deserved it, but it showed how two-faced Grant really was/is.
The Laremy Tunsil gas mask bong photo was the greatest thing I had ever seen until that FucKINGStupid image … I have to have that on a t-shirt.
I still think it’s even crazier because so many people here knew this was going to happen at the time. I said on the draft night thread at the old site it would be a Bowie over Jordan level disaster and here we are.
Can’t wait to see Brad Stevens coaching the Pacers next year, since Monte declared Luke the savior on day one.
If you are the owner of the Celtics, what do you allow to happen first: Ainge fires Stevens or you fire Ainge?
Wyc loves ainge, from what I’ve read on celticsblog. Stevens probably goes first if it’s between the two of them.
Good thing we gave our HC a vote of confidence.
I’d have liked it better if the opposite was done and monte said no one is safe, and you’d better play and coach like your jobs depend on it, because it does. Then, he fires Walton and he starts the search for a coach that can impart what he wants.
Day one of what?
The offseason. You know, like when he said it in a press conference last week.
In fairness, Vlade declared Luke the savior and Monte was forced to keep him. I mean, no, it was 100% his decision b/c Vivek never meddles!
Once he personally did a presser and said Luke is my choice and the guy to lead us to the postseason, it’s all on him. There’s ways to avoid saying things like that if it’s a Vivek choice. Sorry.
Do a sign and trade with the Raptors. We get Gary Trent Jr. I don’t know who The Raptors will want. Maybe Bagley and the pick. I see the Celtics possibly making a move, once they get swept. Jaylen Brown, Maybe. Celtics will probably want a minimuum of Hali, Bagley and the Pick. Probably have to throw in Hield/ Barnes to make salaries work.
I also Like picking up Bobby Portis from the Bucks. Total nasty good defender. He’s unrestricted.
I’m gonna get shit for this, but Jaylen Brown is better and smarter than any current Kings AND is locked up on a very fair deal. If Ainge said Hali, Bagley and the Pick…I think I would say yes.
To take it further, I think I’d prefer to send them Fox over Hali in that deal, but the Celtics would say no.
Jaylen Brown is likely smarter than 97% of human beings on the planet, so it’s not a particularly bold insult when you say no one playing for Sacramento is as smart.
I’d wager he’s among the ten brightest guys in the league, and might be in the top three. He’s an amazing young man.
You think the Celtics would say no to Fox/Bagley/9th pick for Brown? I’m quite confident they’d say yes to that deal. I get that fans tend to overvalue the players on their team but that’s overkill in the other direction.
OT: it’s so great and frustrating to see Luka do his thing.
For those who believe he would not have been that good if he had come to Sacramento; his team may not be as good, but his talent and BBIQ would not allow him to fall below All Star level.
And behind his smiles, you have a killer and a true winner. This series is not over yet, because the Clippers are no chumps, but I don’t see them win 4 games against this Dallas squad.
I take a small amount of relief that we don’t have to deal with his whining to the refs every game, but that’s just a thing I tell myself to feel better about it.
People were willing to put up with DMC’s antics, which were worse, IMO.
I’m confident to say that if Luka was a King almost no-one here would make a big issue out of it. More than that, I believe that plenty would defend him for saying he gets too few whistles and has a right to complain.
LBJ whines too and he’s a flopper as well.
Pat Beverly acts with every foul whistled against him as if he has never made a foul in his life. I was surprised he didn’t get a technical because he kept shouting at the officials.
This is mainly an officiating issue, IMO.
Heck, Fox whines A TON.
Nobody whines more than our announcers, tbh.
But Doncic does seem to be on a different level, and agree with Greg – that would annoy me to a certain point. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s on a career arc to be a top-5 alltime player.
Top 5 all-time? Nah.
Could be a hall-of-famer, though, which is nothing to sneeze at, particularly in a pandemic.
Top 5 is obviously pretty lofty. His lack of elite defense probably preclude him from ever breaking into that top 5 company unless he wins a ton of rings/MVPs. Obviously, a ton of things have to go right beyond simply having the talent for any player to break into the top 50, much less the top 5. That said, Doncic’s first 3 seasons are one hell of a start.
I’m not sure you need elite defense to be a top-5 all time player, since Magic is clearly one of those guys.
But agree with the rest, I’m only speaking to how his first three seasons match up historically.
P.S. Thanks again, Vlade.
but his dad!!!
Luke Walton has rings.
The ringzzz conversation in all sports is exhausting. You get guys like Dan Marino and Barkley, who are easily among the greatest to over play, but somehow they have to be segregated to a lower level because they never got a title.
There are just too many variables over the course of a season for even most all-time-greats to drag their teammates to a championship. I mean, the Miami Dolphins, who in the seventies had one of the best running games in the NFL all of a sudden go fifteen years without being able to put an above-average runner in the backfield with Marino?
Then you factor in injuries to teammates, and to these players, and getting to the top can become all but impossible.
Lebron was an obvious all-time great before winning a title, and is the rare example of a player being able to drag a middling roster across the finish line. With the roster in Dallas, as great as he’s becoming, I don’t think Doncic can push the Mavericks to a championship. It’s to his credit that they’ve done as well as they have, but he’s going to need someone better than Porzingis beside him in order to get that ring.
I totally agree. That said, whether or not they should, we know that RINGZZZ do carry a lot of weight in historic rankings.
Samaki Walker has a ring.
Robert Horry is tied for 4th most rings in history and has more than any other non-60s-Celtics player ever.
#theshotwaslate
I wouldn’t expect him to end up top-5. Just saying that his career arc to this point is top-5 for a guy his age with his experience – especially so considering the roster around him.
Magic, LeBron, MJ…this start is up in that territory, IMO.
https://twitter.com/TheHoopCentral/status/1397589638940790791?s=20
Luka Doncic, 41 career playoff turnovers. Marvin Bagley, 0 career playoff turnovers. Bagley > Doncic. It’s math, people!
Credit to Marty for original pic
He’s just trying to flip that 0-9 to 2-7 man.
Trae Young + Bogi vs Knicks should be fun too.
That first game might have been the most entertaining of the playoffs to this point.
He couldn’t even get back-to-back triple-doubles in back-to-back playoff wins!
Effing bum!
At pick # 9, I like prospects like Scottie Barnes and Moses Moody (looking for BBIQ, toughness & defense). Interested to see what the TKH staff thinks about the potential prospects as we move closer to the draft.
I think if they don’t trade the pick (they will try), McNair will go with the most NBA ready guy left at that spot and it’s Kispert from Gonzaga.
He is going to be a fairly high floor but likely low ceiling player at a premium position in the league.
Man, I hope not.
Same. Kings need some d, not another shooter.
Moses Moody fits the bill. Great team defender and a knock down shooter. He wouldn’t be my first choice for the 9th pick though.
Barnes looks like the more versatile defender.
But a much terrible shooter. We’ll see how much Barnes have improved his shooting. If he can show that he can shoot the 3 at a respectable rate then I won’t mind picking him at 9 even if he isn’t my first choice with the 9th pick.
Definitely a bad shooter. I look at garuba and wonder if he might not be a trade down candidate for the same kind of d and terrible shooter mold as barnes, and a shot at another player.
The Garuba comparison leaves out one of Barnes primary pros. His passing and facilitation ability. Personally, what I’ve seen of Garuba doesn’t really impress me and I don’t think he has anything approaching the defensive upside. He’s really more of a small ball center than a big wing, IMO. I don’t think he has much chance of defending up and down lineup the way Barnes has in college. Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally open to the idea of trading down and I don’t think Barnes is a reason not to consider that, but if I’m trading down and looking for a versatile big wing type, I would take guys like Prkacin and Edwards over Garuba.
I agree, just what I think they will do if they can’t trade off the spot. I just don’t think they want another developmental 19 y/o that likely can’t contribute right away.
We need some dawgs. Keon Johnson out of Tennessee fits the mold.
K. Johnson would be great but IMO–gone by 9.
and Barnes cannot shoot.
Garuba is a small Byumbo.
Top 5 and then Kings get 4th next one. I hope some combination of J. Johnson, Barnes and Mitchell plus reaches for Kispert, I. Jackson and K. Jones are taken. Then Kings get a real choice. K. Johnson, Moody and either Giddy or Wagner.
Kings will probably stay at 9. Less likely to move to 10/11 than to move up.
Let’s talk draft: top 5 are set- Cunningham, Mobley, Green, Suggs and Kuminga than it is all over the board. Three shooting guards: Johnson, Moody and Booknight. Four SF’s: J. Johnson, Giddy, Barnes and Wagner. One PG- Mitchel and one center: Sengun. 9+ 5= 14. Kings get one, duds get 2. I do believe that Barnes and K. Johnson are 6 and 7. I think someone will like Mitchel ( Raptors) or J. Johnson (Orlando). Kings don’t need Mitchell. Hence Kings could get choice of Moody, Giddy, Wagner and Sengun. I think Moody is BPA, Sengun a risk due to size and I would be happy with Wagner or Giddy. Giddy + Tyrese is intriguing. J. Johnson has skills but attitude? Barnes can’t shoot and I worry he is J. Winslow. Booknight is fine but not as good as Moody or K. Johnson. I hope Mitchel and Barnes go from 6- 8. That leaves some talent.
I hope the scouts are good.
Duds? they want to trade their two picks but if they don’t, the 6th will be inexperienced- they do not want that but they could go with Kispert at 14 for experience.
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