Dallas would be seen on par if they hadn’t gotten flagg. Brunson walked for nothing. Luka trade netted AD who ended up being traded for scraps. So Dallas turned Brunson, Luka, ad into…nothing.

you nailed it.

As someone who desperately wanted to draft Luka, and then wanted to trade Fox to build around Hali, the last 8 years have been absolutely horrific

Short answer, yes they are worst. Long answer, you cant get any worse as a front office as the Sacramento Kings have been over the last few years.

That’s wild work lol

There was a year where it seemed like both teams won the Hali/Sabonis trade. I don’t really know what happened to Sabonis. It’s possible he’s just drowning in a cursed organization and there is still hope for his future.

One of the Kings’ worst mistakes in the last 10 years was catering to DeAaron Fox

Short answer No they are the worst

Just look at their draft history: Cousins, Isiah Thomas, Fox and Hailburton were their only hits this century, only to trade them all away, can argue Keegan Murray is still there but that’s it

Most of their picks since 2010 at least they took a player who was garbage 1 or 2 picks ahead of all stars and high level role-players

Their owner once suggested to play 4 on 5 for defense to have one guy cherry picking on offense

They had Mike Malone as a coach once upon a time and looked like they were winning games in the 2010s only to fire him and Cousins got pissed

2023 was a young promising team but they managed to find a way to screw that up too, and they have most of their draft picks, they don’t even have a Nets or Clippers situation, they’re just bad

Is there a worst front office? Yes. Allow me to explain.

Vlade, Monte, Perry. The last 3 GMs did make some decent moves. Vlade drafted Fox. Monte drafted Tyrese, created the Beam Team. Perry found Raynaud in the 2nd, found Dylan Caldwell off the scrap heap. Good moves. Also made some bad decisions every GM does.

The Kings, by far, have the worse dog shit owner in the league. BY FAR! Trading for Sabonis worked. They surrounded him with shooters and it worked. So what does Vivek wanna do? Get rid of Barnes (and attaching a future pick swap in the process) to sign DeRozan. Switching out a shooter with a non shooter. First big blow. Fox tells the Kings that if they fire another coach, he wants out. What does Vivek do? Signs Mike Brown to an extension then fires him 6 months into said extension. Thus, Fox wants to leave and forces his way to the Spurs. Oh, and instead of getting some valuable picks, who does Vivek want in the deal? Zach Lavine.

The front office itself hasn’t been that bad. Vivek has been complete dog shit. Bill Simmons said it best on his pod last week. The Kings aren’t winning anything until they change ownership. Period.

Welcome to my Ted Talk.

Devin Carter barely handled PG duties lol

El Cheapo about to go “hold my watered downed beer in a paper cup.”

Probably the most incompetent front office in all of major league sports right now. Vivek ranadive is a POS

Not to mention not picking luka. Kings deserves like their own metric. I cant think of a team with worse upside. They got so many guys getting paid big but also somehow having very little future

I will repeat this sentiment for as long as it’s relevant: I truly believe that the Bulls and Bulls West (i.e. the Kings) exist as franchises for the express purpose of distributing valuable assets to other teams at a discount.

What people fail to recognize is that it doesn’t matter IF we have the talent. We don’t know what to do with it. Watch Devin Carter be a solid defensive pg off the bench for a contender in 3 years

No. They really traded us Valanciunas for Saric straight up to shed salary when Jonas was already hoping for a buyout anyways.

I didn’t think there could be a worse owner than Vivek Ranadive. But it looks like he’ll have competition from Tom Dundon.

The answer is no. The Kangs are basically the real Washington Generals.

Pelicans and Dallas (only for the Luka and the few trades after)

Dundon seems dead set on stealing that title away by just not having a front office. Whether that would be an improvement over what the Kings have or not remains to be seen.

Always love low value karma farming posts. If the Kings paid Fox max money to be their best player we’d instead be getting a bunch of “Kings are close to the second apron and are pretty mediocre is there a worse front office” posts instead

Didn’t mention Killian Hayes smh

Acuff should be smiling he’s going to get traded to a contender.

The funny part is, a ton of pundits were giving the Kings crap for having those 3 PGs at one time.

The Kings are probably the worst. They mustered all the karma they’ve gathered into that one playoff run and immediately went back to being awful. Unfortunately, they choose wrong when they got rid of Hali in favour of Fox. All of the moves they made also didn’t work out and they just have an awfully constructed roster.

Don’t forget they fired the coach of the year who is now coaching the Knicks to a potential championship run. The Kings truly make some really dumb decisions.

It’s not even the front office. It’s the owner.

Not too much on Big Brodie

Wait a hot minute; Portland with their new owner are about to become Sacramento north

To be fair, it’s 2 different front offices in that timeframe. 

Not that I’ve got any faith in the new one you understand. 

Change the ownership.

At least the DeMar contract could be used by a team looking to get under the tax or apron. Maybe they can get a late first round pick for him.

Westbrook even won us a bunch of games in a year where we needed to lose smh

Why do NBA fans prefer bad teams to be like the kings than the Nets or Wizards when stuff like this results in Kings fan having literally no hope

You also fired the HC that took you back to the playoffs for the first time in like decades, only to watch him lead the knicks to the conference finals this year.

No I don’t think there is. Even when we have drafted promising players, we either sell low for peanuts, or fail to build around them. 

They fumbled the bag so many times. Good draft picks with mid to late lotto and even decent trades like saboner, looks worse in hindsight but he’s a good player.

They can add Darius Acuff

You don’t get it, the kings are bad because the lottery odds are getting flattened, if they could just win the first pick they would be good

I love the Kings so much but gotdamfuk the front office makes every stupid decision possible.

They sold their soul for the Greatest Show on Court years. Failing to cash in with a championship cursed their franchise for all eternity.

they do know how to draft

Watching a team with like 11 guards and not one of them could dribble.

No and it’s not even close. They traded the wrong PG first off. Second, they waited WAY too long to trade Fox. Third, Mitchell was practically cap dumped to get Jalen McDaniels, which was beyond stupid at the time and even stupider in hindsight given Jalen was a horrible player.

22 wins this season with a top five payroll 😬

Their franchise is committed to losing. The Pacers gave them a good player in Sabonis. All they had to do was surround him w/ decent talent and go from there. Instead they tried to recreate the Bulls in Sacramento, an experiment that already failed in Chicago.

The mavericks drafted luka and Brunson in the same draft and have nothing to really show for it.

Bulls are at least on par with Sacramento

Bulls are dogshit too. Hoping for the best with the new hires.

They basically get rid of every good player and take every overrated stat padder.

Pels just hired Jamal Mosley.

Yeah we know sheesh

Light the beam

somehow the King’s anthem still applies

Worst franchise in all of pro sports. lol at anyone who’s still a kings fan.

Passed on Luka btw.

Don’t forget Mavs let Brunson walk for literally nothing and traded Luka for nothing.

It was pretty clear they had to trade Fox or Haliburton at the time. In hind sight they made the wrong move by trading Haliburton which was entirely predictable but I also think was defensible given their position. Salary dumping Davion Mitchell to clear room for Demar Derozan and completely caving to Fox’s trade demand while getting very little in return is pretty hard to defend.

No its just our idiot owner who is still trying to live off the credit from saving basketball in Sacramento. But that credit ran out about 10 years ago.

Thank God we got Cooper Flagg

If the kings wanted to trade with me and offered a young player, I’d jump on it and use history to show they are probably wrong, and are sending me a stud.

In a discussion a few months ago about older players in the draft and how unlikely it is that old players taken in the first round will turn out to be good, a Kings fan tried using Devin Carter as an example of a success story.

It was one of the saddest things I’ve seen from a basketball fan in a while. If thats what you’re latching onto as “success”, things are really not going well.

I’m bummed the Raptors traded away Mitchell. I know why they did it and it was probably the right move but I loved his defense. I love a scrappy defensive guard.

Is it our inability to seek out talent, or is it the fact that our organization doesn’t know how to develop players so everyone who walks in through the door stays buns?

I mean Kings suck but this framing is dumb. One year ago the Lakers center was Anthony Davis, this year it’s min contract DeAndre Ayton. Would you call the Lakers incompetent for getting rid of AD?

I stay convinced westbrook is a winning PG with the right surrounding players. Who those players would be, idk.