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Tyrese Haliburton and Davion Mitchell named to Rising Stars game

The two young Kings earn some recognition.
By | 38 Comments | Feb 1, 2022

Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports

Official rosters for the 2022 Rising Stars Game were announced Tuesday, and the Kings will at least have two representatives at All Star Weekend. Davion Mitchell was named to the rookie team and Tyrese Haliburton was named to the sophomore team.

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In a season without many moments to celebrate, it’s nice to be reminded that the Kings have had back-to-back solid draft picks.

The Rising Stars game will be played on February 18th, and has a new format. From the NBA:

In a new format, 28 players — comprising 12 rookies, 12 sophomores and four members of the NBA G League Ignite developmental squad; see roster below — will be drafted onto four teams coached by 75th Anniversary Team members Rick Barry, Gary Payton, Isiah Thomas and James Worthy to compete in three games on Friday, Feb. 18 (9 p.m. ET, TNT).

The Rising Stars Draft will consist of seven rounds, with the 24 NBA players selected in the first six rounds and the NBA G League Ignite players going in the seventh. The order of selection in the first round will be determined by random drawing, with the pick order reversing in each subsequent round.

Each game will be played to a Final Target Score, ending with a made basket or free throw instead of with the clock running out. It will be a “Race to 75” to celebrate the league’s 75th anniversary season — Games 1 and 2 will be played until a team reaches 50 points; Game 3 will be played until a team reaches 25 points.

If that seems overly complicated to you, you’re not alone. But at least we’ll get to see a couple Kings young’uns in the mix as we see how it plays out.

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AmateurNerd
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February 1, 2022 8:06 pm

Can’t wait for Tyrese to be traded in the middle of the game!

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February 1, 2022 8:26 pm

Good for them maybe they can still save their careers and get out of Sacramento.

TheKingsWhine
February 1, 2022 8:31 pm

McNair has taken a lot of criticism from this site and other places, but he should be commended for his ability to make the right draft pick. He is 2 for 2 in my book, and I hope both of these guys are with the team for a long time to come.

I am hopeful our GM is still around when the Kings make one of the top 5 picks in the next draft, and I’m equally hopeful the Kings will have a record that takes them out of the lottery by next year. Is that too much to ask?

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February 1, 2022 10:17 pm
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I’d feel comfortable saying he’s 2-for-2 in not screwing up lottery picks. 1-for-2 in great lottery picks. Mitchell isn’t likely to be a bust. I think he’ll be a useful NBA roster piece. But I can’t say yet that he was a great pick. His most likely outcome IMO is a solid back-up PG, apt starter type. Which is a good-not-great return at that point in the draft. A solid B/B-.

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February 1, 2022 11:16 pm

And every single one of us on this board would’ve taken Hali at 12.

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February 2, 2022 6:44 am
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Hell, I had Hali at #2 on my board. Monte got very lucky he dropped as far as he did. Picking him there was a no brainer, no some gambled reach that paid off.

On that same note, I think Mitchell was a bit of a reach. I don’t think he was on many or our radars at the #9 spot. Now, if Mitchell develops into a good basketball player and is a top 10ish player to come out of this draft, then I’ll give a lot of credit to Monte. That shows something. Time will tell.

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February 2, 2022 8:13 am
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Hell, I had Hali at #2 on my board. Monte got very lucky he dropped as far as he did. Picking him there was a no brainer, no some gambled reach that paid off.

And the bar here is so low that not being braindead is enough to get credit, unlike the last guy.

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February 2, 2022 8:23 am
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I’ll give McNair full credit. There were 11 GMs picking ahead of him, and right now it looks like 9 of them may have screwed up. Kudos to Monte for not adding himself to that list.

I said it at the time, and I still feel the same way – Mitchell will be a top ten player in this draft. He will be better than some of the players selected before him, and he won’t be as good as some of the players drafted after him. It will wind up being a non-blown pick, but one that we will always look back on and note that so-and-so was still on the board (Sengun? Z.Williams? Moody?).

Of course, the larger looming question is the overall management. Had the Kings sold at the deadline last year, we could be looking at Franz Wagner right now or even Scottie Barnes. If you are truly adept at drafting talent, it would seem to be in your best interests to rebuild via that mechanism, leveraging your current veteran talent for additional picks and draft positioning.

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February 2, 2022 11:27 am
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Full credit for another reason too:

What did we kill Vlade for? For not making the obvious and easy choice.

So, we can’t really turn around on the next GM and say, “well, he just made obvious and easy choice, so what’s the big deal?”

Making the correct pick is the point!

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February 2, 2022 11:30 am
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However, I need to see how the Fox/Hali/Mitchell/TD/Buddy (mostly just Fox/Hali/Mitchell) back court situation plays out before I fully judge the Mitchell selection.

Because regardless the reasons, taking two PGs in the 1st round after extending Fox is interesting strategy without more moves.

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February 2, 2022 11:35 am
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I probably hold less regard for positional fit out of the draft than pretty much anyone – I’ve just seen it blow up too many times where a team passes on better talent because of fit. That said, if you like a wing and point guard pretty much equally and you need a wing, take the wing.

The head scratcher for me was dealing Delon Wright and handing Davion those minutes while simultaneously purporting that you were battling for a playoff spot. I mean, who seriously thought that TT/Davi for Delon Wright was a net positive for this season?

If the Kings retain both Fox and Hali, and Davi starts crushing it in a 3rd guard role, the Kings will be a stronger team and also be in a stronger trade position. But what this organization, in its current form, has failed to prove is that they have the dexterity to re-format the roster via trade or free agency. In that regard, your concern about drafting too much depth at one position could be well-founded.

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February 2, 2022 11:48 am
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I probably hold less regard for positional fit out of the draft than pretty much anyone

That is 100% true of potential top-end talent.

I like Mitchell, but I don’t think any fans or this FO viewed him as potential top-end talent.

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February 3, 2022 7:38 am
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And every single one of us on this board would’ve taken Hali at 12.

This isn’t true. There was criticism of the pick at the time although that was in the minority.

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February 2, 2022 7:45 am

I think the grade could be bumped a notch higher for fit (next to either PG, but especially next to Haliburton) and team need (defense).

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February 1, 2022 8:34 pm

Good for them. Hope they have fun.

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February 2, 2022 4:11 am
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This.

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February 1, 2022 8:36 pm

This is good.

They both deserve to have some fun this season.

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February 1, 2022 8:38 pm

Just realised I unintentionally mirrored BeTheBalls comment. Which is bad

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February 1, 2022 9:12 pm

It will be Davion’s first time of not trying on defense !

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February 1, 2022 10:16 pm

We’re experts on “kinda stars”.

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February 1, 2022 10:19 pm

Good for them.

That said, All-Star games are pretty lame. I’d rather the players just got a mid-season break.

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February 1, 2022 10:32 pm

Good opportunity for them to meet actual NBA players that give a shit.

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February 1, 2022 11:52 pm

Why do I see these things so late…

(Edit: “I think the biggest difference is that Sacramento has no NBA players, whereas the Nets do” – the best underhand shade you can throw since it technically fit in the skit)

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February 2, 2022 5:50 am

No one wants to talk about Fox fake injury? This is THE story, my felllow Kings fans!

I wrote about this two days ago in the context of “rock bottoms” and “breaking points” but did not post it because I did not like the final note. I did want to infer Fox is mentally weak. Let me clarify the issue there with a few addendums.

Part One : On Breaking Points and Rock Bottoms

Whatever the rules are around here I don’t play by them but I am curious how normies roll:  (1) we can speculate all day about trades that may or not take place but (2) we cannot speculate about the veracity of the injury to the franchise player? 

The dubiousness of this injury is the headline, instead we get nonsense about “rock bottoms” and “breaking points”.  

With regard to “rock bottoms”, do you think the team can make a panicked and desperate and regretaable trade that makes us worse over the short and long term?  Which then exacerbates the lack of competitiveness, frustration and fracture?   

Even the most optimistic fan must hypothetically concur it is possible; any “rock bottom” perceived to have been reached is arbitrary, regardless of the number of humiliating defeats. What is the point of entertaining the notion?  

Do you want to know the unequivocal “rock bottom”?  When the team goes 0-82, “rock bottom” has been reached.  You cannot get worse than lose every game. 

As far as “breaking points”, this discusssion is equally futile.  I am only fan of NBA, little to no interest in other sports, but weren’t the Chicago Cubs bad for 100 years? Wasn’t that team historically incompetent with many sack-over-head wearing fans? Didn’t the fans get a reprieve a few years ago and turn out in jubilant droves to relish the belated success?  If any group of fans were to reach their breaking point, tune out, turn off, turn their back and never return, it would have been the Cubs fans.  That didn’t happen. 

What is this breaking point? It is the point at which NO hope exists. When the odds to be a consistent winner are zero. When there is NO perceived hope, only then is there is NO justification to invest your time or emotion.  But as long as a team has draft picks, free agency and alleged professionals in decision making roles selling hope, hope can be found, even if irrationally generated.  

Since a degree of hope is always possible, irrationality is always possible, and the structure of the league helps to instill hope, rational and irrational, there is NO collective breaking point. There are fans who say they have had enough, they are done, their breaking point reached, they are going, going, gone and never coming back. You know another term to characterize this unhinged and minority contingent? LIARS.

Casuals tune in and out to varying degrees, then there are the hardcores who did not miss a beat of the misery. Regardless if you gave enough of a damn to get SO frustrated as to declare your disallegiance, you then cared enough in the first place, which means you will care enough to come back as conditions and room on the bandwagon dicates. This is basic human nature and why declaration of “breaking points” is a transparent crock of shit, usually from the hyperbolic, secretly checking box scores after their alleged disowning. 

Fans who do reach their so-called breaking point and do find a new team, new sport or hobby were never true fans in the first place. They were fickle phonies. They didn’t reach their breaking point, they reached the limit of their attention span and loyalty, myopic and fleeting, disengenuous from the outset.

Part Two: On Fox and His Fake Injury!

Fox is not hurt. Yeah I said it. His psyche is bruised. His ankle is fine.

What did the MRI say? Grade 1 sprain, Grade 2?

Oh he never had one?

I rest my case, Your Honor.  

I am not sure if there is a trade on the table, something percolating on the backburner, there probably is, but the Front Office wants to see more of what the team looks like with Ty running the show.  The results were as expected, gaping scoring hole with no one to fill, especially without TD, only 100 points per game on the trip, average loss by 20, competive only when Ty was at his dynamic and creative best (24/12 vs MIL; 38/7 vs PHI). 

The decision to rest Fox, allow him clear his head, possible trade pending for a new primary scorer, coincided with frustration reaching peak levels with back-to-back losses to DET and HOU. As a max player Fox carries the burden of expectation of a city and fanbase.

This is NO less burdensome, however, than the extraordinary expectations he has of himself, and the failure to live up to them. His sour disposition is rooted in fact he expected more personally, independent of what anyone else wanted, teammates and coaches and fans, especially in regard to 3s (25%; -8%) and shots in crunchtime, his forte before this season. 

Any evaluation has to account for the impersonator in place of Fox the first 6-8 weeks of the season. The bloated fascimile was not the guy who scored 28 PPG in second half of last season. The weight came off and the burst came back. In the process a coach lost his job and the team was behind the eight ball before the holidays. The season could still have been saved. The GM made a fatal error, however, naming a worse coach than the one he fired, superior only in postgame soud bites.

This superficial swap did nothing to improve the team strategy or the mood of Fox, who sees through pretenders and placeholders as readily as anyone. 

There is NO connection between the Old Man and Fox. NO value added, NO synergy, NO turnaround facilitated. There is NO superior vocal presence either to make up for the relatively quiet disposition of Fox.

That man could have been Bobby or Doug but the Front Office took the conservative and regretable course, giving a proven loser chance to prove he could lose all over again. 

I targeted 58-60% TS% for Fox as viable goal before the season, to build on 56.5% TS% from last season, and as a crucial bellweather for team success. The idea was to use the new muscle to carve more space, absorb more contact, draw more fouls, without sacrificing speed or quickness. If Fox was scoring with this level of effeciency, he could carry this motley crew to the playoffs, and earn his first All-Star bid.  

Instead the added size, muscle and fat, was not advantageous but a hindrance, something which should be have been foresen by prudent trainers, if we had any.  We got 50% TS% for first quarter of the season, or 22 games, outrageous and completely avoidable.

If you want to give Fox the benefit of the doubt, which I do, and shift partial to most of the blame to the training staff, which I do, for allowing this egregiousness, then you can put his season in better context: BFF and AFF, Before Fat Fox and After Fat Fox. ATF, playing at 190 lbs instead of 205 lbs, Fox is 56% TS% in 22 games in December and January. And this in spite of 14 of 62 on 3s, a woeful Buddy-esque 22%.

And in spite of refs being less inclined to blow their whistle, Fox has found way to get back to the line at a rate equal to season ago (24.7% vs 24.0%).

Fox has regressed on 3s and clutch shots at end of games to win games. This is beyond contention.  But he’s still our best talent, lethal in mid range, and this winless road trip helps affirm his value and importance. Fox can be a plus defender if we move him off the point of attack, assign him to SGs, annoint Davion as starter, and field a starting unit that does less switching and more trapping. Fox can go from a neutral to bad defender to a VERY good defender with responsibilities aligned to his skillset, and it is a simple fact that he is better defending up than down.

These variables have to be considered before any possible trade. There is also the Morant Factor, scintillating All-Star starter on a team going for #1 seed.  You would think this would be irrelevant, what another team or player is up to, but I think Fox is keen to the success of Grizzlies, while he wallows in oblivion and Groundhog Day. And while the Grizzlies go on long winning streaks in the absence of Morant, we more or less collapse in the absence of Fox.  

Fox gets the blame, I hear Twitter is particularly ruthless, some deserved, some undeserved. Morant gets the glory, causing envy and consternation within Fox and other PGs who saw them in his shoes. Morant was 54% TS% last year. He is 57% TS% this year, a tick above the 56.5% TS% Fox registered last year and this year AFF.  The separation in effeciency is not drastic, unlike the performance of their respective teams and career arcs. I suspect Fox does not fail to see this or express this behind closed doors.

“Where’s my help?” I envision him calmly and firmly saying to the Front Office. “Morant has Bane, I have Buddy. Morant has JJJ, I have Bagley. Morant has Adams,  I have Len. Morant has a top notch coach, I have a substitute and a mirror image of the coach you fired”.  No matter how much I do, concurrently awknowledging my 3s and end of game shots have not fallen to my expectation, it does not feel like it will ever be enough.” 

This is the reasonable mindset Fox has, the basis of the perpetual sad face, the burden he carries, the cause of the restless nights, the cummulative effect of so much losing and so many shitty teammates. The Front Office is sensitive to this, vowing to try to get him help by the Deadline, granting time off to him as the they sort out their options.

This is the real sore spot, not the ankle. The healing needed is in the psyche of the player.

To be clear, Fox is NOT mentally weak. He is NOT psychologically fragile. You don’t lead the NBA in 4th quarter points (last season) because you are tender buttercup.

Fox can be aloof and dismissive in post games and this is perceived (wrongly) as not caring.

Does a player who does not care break down in the lockerroom and bawl his eyes out as he did at Kentucky aside Monk? More recently does a player who does not care get choked up when his effort and desire is questioned? It is understandable however how some of his mannerisms and quotes can be misinterpreted and misconstrued.

So you have a player who is misunderstood, probably feels misunderstood, may to degree feel unfairly attacked and blamed by a portion of the fanbase for the perception he does not care (enough), does not try hard enough, and this is mentally taxing to the point of mental exhaustion.

When you add this to the struggle with 3s, the struggle at end of games, the excess weight he carried to start the season, a superficial coaching change amount to nothing, another season slipping away with home losses to the dregs of the league, you can see why some downtime in the midst of the futility would have appeal.

Fox is paid to deal with criticism, constructive and otherwise, scrutiny is part of the job when your job is in the public eye. I am not excusing him, but I am sympathetic to his plight. He is only human, and playing with Buddy Yield for 100s of games could drive anyone to the point of insanity, or at least in the need of a mini-vacation.

If I had to guess I would say Fox will NOT be traded and he may return to play as soon as tonight. If a trade does transpire the best chances are in a deal for Sabonis, a course of action that may be best for all involved parties.

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February 2, 2022 7:18 am
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All I took from this was a huge serving of the No True Scotsman Fallacy which, as its name implies, is a fallacy.

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February 2, 2022 11:45 am

You got more out of it than did I.

All I got was:

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February 2, 2022 11:47 am
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Oh, don’t get me wrong, I skimmed that more than 2% milk through a strainer. That phrase is the only thing that caught my attention.

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February 2, 2022 12:26 pm

K4Evah is a rather dismissive chap.

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February 2, 2022 9:19 am
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Wow, it took nearly 5 full seconds to scroll past your comment. That’s a new record!

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February 2, 2022 9:36 am
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I got 6.5, I need to upgrade my mouse wheel!

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February 2, 2022 9:33 am
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Always great to hear from true experts what true fans are.

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February 2, 2022 10:02 am
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Well done. Agree with a lot of what you’ve said. Don’t agree at all with your take on the value and skill regarding the writers on this site. Don’t agree with your rankings of what makes a true fan. I never agree with your opinion on what makes a true fan but then I never agree with any writer who tries to characterize on what makes a true fan, especially when it implies that they are true fans and the rest of that don’t rise to their level of fandom. The true description of true fans: we are all different.

On the other hand I did appreciate your speculation on the state D. Fox. It is a very weird situation and as you mention has not been deeply discussed here. I don’t know how you could expect TKH to get to the bottom of the story. Nobody to date has from any position outside of the team has gotten to the bottom of the story. Maybe there is no story, he simply has a sore ankle. I agree with you that there is something else going on that is a bigger story.

Lastly I want to thank you for humanizing Fox. Again, unless you have an undeclared personal connection with Fox or someone who has connections within the team it is all speculation.

Your comments here have made me take a look at how I internalize my opinion of players and without really recognizing it how I start looking at players as pieces rather than human beings.

I appreciate the time and effort you put into this piece and despite my comments sounding like criticism I believe there is a foundation of truth here.

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February 2, 2022 10:05 am
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Um, I guess I appreciate that you did not use the term “Booze Hound.”

Fox and frustrations: I agree with some of your take on Fox. He’s got the big contract, yada yada, but I don’t blame him if the current state of the team is driving him crazy. The organization is so frustratingly inept that maybe he needs a mental break. (Also, it increases the team’s loss total, so that’s good.) I like the comparison with Morant/Grizzlies.

We are all frustrated because we have seen several teams tank and begin a renaissance (Grizzlies, for example), and I think most of us don’t believe the FO will follow this pattern. Hell, if they don’t make a major move and continue to lose, a good, early draft pick may be enough to revive the team.

Fandom??? WTH? I grew up rooting for the Warriors because that was the only team “in town.” When they won the championship in the 1970s, my brother painted their logo on our basketball backboard.
When the Kings came to town, I gravitated to the excitement and rooted for our lovable losers. I still remember cheering on with my friends as the likes of Spud Webb, Pete Chilcutt, Anthony Bonner and Marty Conlon fought back from a 20 point deficit to beat the early Stockton and Malone Jazz.
I was in university in the Bay Area during the Run TMC phase of the Warriors and my friends and I were pulled in by that excitement (never thought the Dubs should have traded Mitch).
I was back in Sac when Jason Williams, Chris Webber and crew blew away the league. I’m heartbroken by what happened with that beautiful team.
Now, my hometown keeps me attached to the Kings whether I like it or not.
But either because of my advanced age or Vivek’s shitshow, I find myself more open to enjoying good teams (and good organizations).
I loved watching the Heat in the bubble (bummed they lost the championship due to injuries). I loved watching the Toronto championship team. I enjoy watching the Dubs, the Jazz, the Nuggets, the Suns, and, this year, the Cavaliers. They are fun to watch.
I admire good organizations like the Grizzlies.
I could easily see myself gravitating to another team. F the lakers.
If that makes me a lousy fan, a heretic, then so be it.
What I want more than anything is to NOT be the guy calling other people heretics.

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February 2, 2022 10:21 am
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Anyone know where I can get a pair of rock bottoms? Asking for a friend.

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February 2, 2022 1:45 pm
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No one wants to talk about Fox fake injury? This is THE story, my felllow Kings fans!

Actually, I just don’t really think it matters much unless Fox is done with the organization and this is indeed a breaking point with the org with Fox.

The dubiousness of this injury is the headline, instead we get nonsense about “rock bottoms” and “breaking points”.  

This is silly on a variety of fronts. That’s the 2nd post Noel Harris has ever made on TKH. Which is supposed to speak for a community of fans and a half dozen (at least) of regular writers? Otay……

As far as “breaking points”, this discusssion is equally futile.  I am only fan of NBA, little to no interest in other sports, but weren’t the Chicago Cubs bad for 100 years? Wasn’t that team historically incompetent with many sack-over-head wearing fans? Didn’t the fans get a reprieve a few years ago and turn out in jubilant droves to relish the belated success?  If any group of fans were to reach their breaking point, tune out, turn off, turn their back and never return, it would have been the Cubs fans.  That didn’t happen. 

This is a horrible analogy for all kinds of reasons. One, the Cubs had good teams over the years at times (particularly in the late 20s to the late 30s) after their WS win in 1908. What they never did, really, was be very good for a sustained stretch of time. But they are probably the 4th most valuable MLB franchise largely due to the WGN factor (that no longer exists), Wrigley itself, it’s very long (and mostly bad) history, and the relationship the fans have with the franchise. It’s a ginormous franchise and has been for a long time.

Baseball is different now and the economics of it are different now. But the Cubs were essentially run under one MO for a very long time: Making as much as moolah as possible. Thus they never took advantage of stars they had (Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Ferguson Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg, Andrew Dawson to name a few) and their collapse in 2003 is still talked about because of ‘Bartman.’ It’s such an unique thing ESPN made a 30 for 30 about the guy still being in hiding a decade later because of all the death threats he received afterwards. That doesn’t happen if Cubs fans weren’t desperate to see the best team they had in many, many years miss out on a golden opportunity to win a World Series.

The curse of the Billy Goat….dates back to 1945. Which is the last time Chicago had made the World Series until they in fact ended up winning it in 2016. That’s how bad the Cubs were. They didn’t have a curse on winning the brass ring, they had a curse on simply just getting into the fucking dance.

No-one in their right mind will ever confuse the Chicago Cubs for the Sacramento Kings. Other than their lack of success and being around for a long time, that is. The Cubs have been very, very, very profitable and MLB greatly benefits having them around and being very good.

Moving on….

Does a player who does not care break down in the lockerroom and bawl his eyes out as he did at Kentucky aside Monk? More recently does a player who does not care get choked up when his effort and desire is questioned? It is understandable however how some of his mannerisms and quotes can be misinterpreted and misconstrued.

I don’t see what happened at UK as mattering much in context of this season. But I won’t argue that he is frustrated including with himself. Some of the real problem is that De’Aaron is comfortable including sitting out a road trip just because he probably felt like it.

Are the narratives that Haliburton is a franchise guy silly? Of course. But the best way to silence that is be a franchise guy yourself and show why you got the money in the first place. De’Aaron Fox is a talented player, and frankly him sitting out this road trip for anything other than a legitimate ankle injury is simply disappointing. It is, IMO, a cop out on his part and quitting on a team that lacked a leadership void that stems largely from De’Aaron Fox not providing that leadership.

Is Fox salvageable? I’d say yes, but some soul searching from all parties needs to happen sooner rather than later because this cannot continue to go on. And sitting out your road trip because your feelings are hurt and other players are in better situations is equally silly and unprofessional.

I suspect this is how the majority feel about it, and it’s just more of the same Therefore, not being discussed.

It’s not the entirety of the discussion, and much of this is really about how player and franchise both have failed each other while essentially pointing the finger at each other and not taking enough of the blame for each of it’s respective roles in this debacle. That said, like I said, I think De’Aaron Fox is salvageable. But not until someone starts telling him the shit he doesn’t want to hear, and not until the franchise itself starts acting more accountably, too.

There’s a lot of fault here, that’s just the damning truth of it. Start somewhere and work your way forward is the only way out. I would like to see something along that vein, but given how this organization has operated for many years before McNair and in some ways still operates now (regardless of how McNair feels about it) is going to remain the elephant in the room until addressed.

And so it goes, detective lieutenant.

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AnybodyButBagley
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February 2, 2022 6:17 pm
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Sitting down to relax for the night. Choosing what to do….

Read this beyond long and sure to be bull shit post?

Watch the Kangz embarrass themselves?

Watch hockey and try to learn about something that is interesting?

Going to watch hockey and occasionally check the Kangz score. Definitely not reading this novel.

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February 2, 2022 8:37 am

0 joy as a kings fan but congrats to both of them though

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February 2, 2022 9:36 am

Davion is decent, he’s not currently on the nba.com top 10 rookie ladder and Chris Duarte has been much better. I like how he plays though and his character. Solid pick, unfortunately all the good players were gone after Wagner, right where Kings were picking.

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