RJ and Poeltl feel like Kings already 

unfortunately for them sabonis does want out so they are unlikely to just hold him, i mean i guess they could but the priority should be trying to get as high a pick this year as possible. They can i guess bench sabonis the rest of the year and let him rest up his knee? They have a lot of work to do before the deadline with zack, demar, russ and sabonis who should all be somewhere else

God I really don’t want the Poetl contract that might be the worst contract in the league. Id way rather do something like quickley+barrett and a first and some seconds for Sabonis and Monk.

You and me both buddy

Feels so much like a Kings player 

Take Poetl with him and sure.or else he’s all ours and when Poetl gets healthy it’s gonna be a stacked team

Stein said this yesterday.

While his contract is tough to swallow, Domas has been playing on one of the smallest teams in the league his whole tenure in Sacramento and the offense was completely shifted away from him when DeMar was brought in last season. He’s not a shot blocker but he can still hold his own on defense in the paint and he would look MUCH better if the team around him had any semblance of POA and perimeter defense. I’d say the Raptors, ironically, are one of the best possible situations for him to maximize his skillset.

Id only do it if Poeltl is in it.

Otherwise, no thanks.

Pretty much everything Sabonis does is better than Poeltl because Poeltl is hurt and they don’t even know when he can play again. The only thing Poeltl is better at is being taller, and he’s only got like an inch on him there.

Sabonis just doesn’t fit the modern NBA at all. He’s a throwback PF. He can’t switch or rim protect, and he can’t shoot 3s. Those are death sentences as a big in the modern NBA, it doesn’t matter that he can do literally everything else.

He doesn’t fit on any team.

Sabonis does not fit their timeline at all…

Timelines do not exist. NBA careers, and especially contracts, are insufficiently-long to allow the concept of a “timeline” make any sense at all. If a team can acquire talented players who contribute to winning – which is sufficiently hard on its own – they have to do so. History is rife with examples proving this point.

Toronto – proud owners of just 2 trips to the Conference Finals and 10 playoff series wins in their entire history – have an opportunity right now that is about as-good as they are ever going to see. They are just 1 game out of the #2 spot in the wide-open East, and the West is a rather muddled mess, too. There is no situation where Toronto can afford to decline to improve their team based on some farcical notion of a “timeline”.

And even if they were sufficiently misguided as you suggest, Ingram and Barrett are UFA after next season, so their “timeline” such as it is, is right damn now.

is a clear net negative on defense and has taken a step back offensively

Sacramento was +5.⁶⁄₁₀₀ possessions last season with Sabonis on the floor, versus off.

I doubt they care about a timeline, and they’d make this trade thinking it would help them make the finals in a terrible east without Tatum.

The problem with that thinking is it won’t help them, because Sabonis isn’t that good.

Toronto’s first is going to be in the mid 20s - sabonis is totally worth that. This sub way overvalues picks compared to the average GM

Finding takers for LaVine and DeRozan on those contracts is gonna be tough tho, just salarydumping them makes no sense as well if they’re gonna suck anyway

This ignores that what Toronto is looking to do is get Sabonis for a single pick while also trading Jakob Poeltl back who has a long term contract, for too much money and whose back is looking incredibly questionable.

Sabonis has been an all nba player multiple times and Toronto just succeeded with trading for a former all star at bargain value in Ingram. It makes sense they’d look at something similar with someone whose likely to play unlike their current center. 

RJ is not commanding 40 lmfao