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    Sacramento Kings Offseason Blueprints



    2007-08 Record: 38-44, 4th in the Pacific Division
    Head Coach: Reggie Theus, 2nd year
    General Manager: Geoff Petrie

    Under Contract For '08-'09 (salary)

    * C- Brad Miller (11.3 mill)
    * SG- Kevin Martin (9.2 mill)
    * SF- Ron Artest (8.4 mill)
    * PF- Kenny Thomas (7.9 mill)
    * PF- Shareef Abdur-Rahim (6.2 mill)
    * PF/C- Mikki Moore (5.3 mill)
    * SG- John Salmons (5.1 mill)
    * PF- Shelden Williams (3.3 mill)
    * C- Spencer Hawes (2.1 mill)
    * SG- Francisco Garcia (1.9 mill)
    * PG/SG- Quincy Douby (1.4 mill)

    FREE AGENTS

    * PG- Beno Udrih
    * PF- Lorenzen Wright
    * PG- Anthony Johnson

    Note: All are Unrestricted Free Agents

    FINANCES

    Last Years Payroll: 63.1 million
    Committed Payroll For '08-'09: 62.1 million


    DRAFT STATUS

    * Kings have the 12th, 42nd, and 45th picks in the upcoming draft

    FREE AGENCY PRIORITIES

    * Udrih's contract situation. He deserves a hefty pay raise, but it's possible his asking price could be mega outrageous.

    * The only expiring contract we have is Ron Artest, so we don't have many trading chips, so if we're going to improve next season, it's going to be because of the development and growth of our young players (Martin, Garcia, Douby, Hawes, S. Williams)


    TEAM STRENGTHS

    * Finished the season winning 11 of their last 20 games
    * Have two sharp young shooters in Kevin Martin and Francisco Garcia, both of whom established career highs in PPG


    TEAM WEAKNESSES

    * Inability to stay healthy (Martin, Reef, Kenny Thomas, Artest all missed significant time)

    * Lousy front court play, it's obvious Mikki Moore wasn't worth that long-term deal, and Spencer Hawes is looking like a bust (avg. 4 and 3 in 71 gms)


    CURRENT DEPTH CHART

    C- Brad Miller/Mikki Moore/Spencer Hawes
    PF- Kenny Thomas/Shareef Abdur-Rahim/Shelden Williams
    SF- Ron Artest/John Salmons
    SG- Kevin Martin/Francisco Garcia
    PG- Quincy Douby

    ^^only includes those under contract for '08-'09

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    Why did the Kings take Batum? They traded away Hawes in the deal for Lowrey and their bigs were already bad. I think if they traded Artest, they would get a wing back. They do have Garcia that can play SF too. Seems like you could have got your SF in the early 2nd.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WTFchris
    Why did the Kings take Batum? They traded away Hawes in the deal for Lowrey and their bigs were already bad. I think if they traded Artest, they would get a wing back. They do have Garcia that can play SF too. Seems like you could have got your SF in the early 2nd.

    I tried to trade Artest to Glenn, but the deal 'fell through'...this season is strictly rebuild as we have a solid core to go forward with (Martin, Garcia, Douby, Salmons, Lowry, Batum) and it's pretty much a given Artest will be dealt at the deadline, and between Kenny Thomas, Reef, Brad Miller, Shelden Williams, DJ White and Mikki Moore all under contract for a couple more years, Spencer Hawes leaving is not a big deal...

    he was pathetic anyway...now we can look to either resign Beno or spend the money elsewhere...

    Between Brad Miller, Shareef and Kenny Thomas...that's 27 million coming off my books for 2010, the same year LeBron, Melo, Wade, Bosh ALL hit free agency...

    nobody's gonna have more to spend than me

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    DEPTH CHART, POST DRAFT

    C- Brad Miller/Mikki Moore/Shelden Williams

    PF- Kenny Thomas/Shareef Abdur-Rahim/Richard Hendrix

    SF- Ron Artest/Francisco Garcia/D.J. White

    SG- Kevin Martin/John Salmons/Nicolas Batum

    PG- Kyle Lowry/Quincy Douby


    MISC. ROSTER NOTES


    - Batum might stay overseas, obviously we don't need him this year but when Garcia's contract is up in 2010, we could easily S&T him if he keeps improving and then bring over Batum...

    - Fuck Mikki Moore's stupid contract, why the fuck did Petrie give him that offer sheet?? I mean seriously, Mikki Moore??? Useless.

    - Beno Udrih, your not getting the full MLE...

    - Reef and Kenny Thomas need to give me a combined 80 games played between them...I swear these guys are made of loose-leaf paper, every year they get some chronic injury that forces them to miss 2/3rds of the season...
    Last edited by Wilfredo Ledezma; 06-24-2008 at 10:21 PM.

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