With 40% of the last vote, Serbian forward Nikola Jović is off the board. He joins Jalen Duren, Johnny Davis, Tari Eason, Jeremy Sochan, AJ Griffin, Dyson Daniels, Bennedict Mathurin, Keegan Murray, Jaden Ivey, Shaedon Sharpe, Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren and Jabari Smith Jr.
When a choice comes up, pick who you’d want the Kings to pick given all the players remaining. Note: THIS IS NOT A MOCK DRAFT. This is a draft board, a ranked list of prospects you’d like to see the Kings pick. In other words, if we were the Kings front office, when our pick came up, we’d take the top name left on our board. So pick your choice, not who you think Monte McNair or anyone else would choose in a slot.
Explain your choice in the comments, and lobby for who should be added to the next pick’s choices.
This poll ends at 5 AM tomorrow. The next one will begin shortly thereafter and it will be the final one before we release the full board on Monday.
Gimme EJ Liddell.
Ochai
Has there been reports of any players that the Kings have worked out?
I don’t think they’ll be working out any of the consensus top 10 players. Pretty sure they’ve seen the players pro day workouts but I don’t think they’ll be bringing them in sac for a workout.
I would think that players like Murray, and even Ivey, who have the potential to go higher than 5/6, and 4, respectively, would work out for teams for the possibility of landing that bigger contract.
Holmgren has nothing to gain from performing, since he’d be more likely to drop, whether 1->2 or 2->3. If Smith wants that top slot, he might work out for Orlando, and Banchero might visit OKC to try and move up.
It would be surprising if any of that leaked, though. With so many possibilities of how the first six picks could play out, it wouldn’t be smart to telegraph anything to other orgs.
All that makes sense. Just seems that there is usually reports of players coming and working out for the Kings. Maybe the front office is doing a good job of staying tight lipped…probably not, but maybe.
Media’s being shut out in Sac for some reason. James Ham and Sean Cunningham have talked about this quite a bit on their pod. Some of it may be that they don’t have media relations people after they let go of the guys in that department.
I heard Sean and James talk about that. No agents, players, people close to player’s, etc have mentioned anything. Maybe the Kings have them sign non-disclosure agreements, haha
There simply isn’t anything to be gained by talking to the media about the organization’s thinking on the matter. The likely outcome of doing so is to have something reported without proper context, having the writer’s bias added, putting proprietary information out for other teams to use, or simple out-and-out horseshit.
One of McNair’s best characteristics is that he doesn’t give a damn whether the media likes him or not. He reports to one person, who is the only one with the power to keep him or fire him. My hope is that even with Ranadive, McNair is keeping things vague and non-committal, because if there’s a leak with true information, I’d see it most likely coming from the owner.
A year ago, the only person who really took a hard line about selecting Davion Mitchell was our dear Jerry Reynolds. We all discussed fit, and need, and Jerry stated simply that this kid is a winner, was ready to play in the NBA, and most importantly, that you can always trade talent. I don’t know that McNair factors in JR’s opinion (although one could do worse), but they both saw the same things, and both were right.
I don’t think that we’ll know what’s actually happened until after the first round completes, because there’s a decent possibility that the pick will be traded, and could be to a team with a low pick, and netting a really good player for Sacramento.
I love the possibilities, and absolutely adore that no one has any idea what might happen. Mute McNair is fine by me.
For what it’s worth, I just read an article about how Morey stopped putting stock into pre-draft workouts. Maybe McNair has adopted some of that.
Knowing absolutely nothing about it, if I was a GM, and the player wanted to come in for anything short of a scrimmage, there’s not much point. There aren’t a lot of unknowns as to the players’ attributes, and an interview can be done on Zoom.
I voted TyTy Washington………….
mainly due to his name.
That’s the exact reason I don’t want him.
Agbaji again.
I think Agbaji’s 3&D ability makes him the BPA.
Ochai is okay.
On paper, he’s got a nice well rounded, even impressive set of stats. Given that he comes from the land of Thomas Robinson and Ben McLemore and their set of impressive stats, any Jayhawk will be forever cursed if they are unknown. He got my vote today because the others choices, on paper, offer even less. They have youth, they have size and everyone has potential – but Adgabi has some hope to be more of a plug in, so he has that going for him, I guess.
I wouldn’t call his game well-rounded. He’s a spot up 3pt-and-D guy through and through.
Sooo… just offense and defense?
Voted Orlando Robinson. Hope he’s there in the 2nd rd.
Ochai for his floor spacing.
Jalen Williams. Seems like he could be that diamond in the rough that got devalued a bit due to his previous level of competition.
Yep, I voted for Jalen too.
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