Thoughts: Sacramento Kings Need Future To Be Main Priority
By Rafe Wong
The Sacramento Kings playoff hopes are as close to over and now it’s time to take a different direction going into the last 17 games of the season.
It’s time for the Kings to not let winning be the major priority this season, and instead, make it time for the team to start evaluating their current personnel.
This means tinkering with different lineups to see which players work best together. It also means finding which players can play productivity and genuinely want to stick with the franchise going forward, and more importantly who wants out.
Taking this direction for the remainder of the season will give the Kings front office a clearer picture of what needs to be addressed as they enter the upcoming offseason.
The franchise needs to put the present to bed and now invest their focus towards the future of the franchise.
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One of the main factors to this is that the Kings should start playing their young players like Willie Cauley-Stein, Ben McLemore, and Seth Curry for significant minutes the rest of the way. Hey, let’s even bring back Duje Dukan from the Reno Bighorns and finally see what he’s got.
This will give the young Kings an opportunity to experience what they can bring to the table, plus also getting themselves more acclimated to the speed, strength, IQ at the professional level.
It’s also worth noting that the Kings are currently in the position to have the 7th overall pick in this year’s NBA draft. The pick is currently protected, meaning that if the Kings pick ends up being between 1-10 after the draft lottery they own the rights to it.
However if the pick ends up being greater than 10, then the rights to the pick belong to the Chicago Bulls due to a past trade the Kings made with the Cleveland Cavaliers. So, if the Kings did find a way to win more games, but still not qualify for postseason contention it would be a double whammy for them.
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Overall, the Kings season is done. It’s unfortunate because of the high expectations the franchise and fans had for the team this season, but their playoff hopes are indeed over.
Now it is time for the Kings to gameplan for next season, start evaluationg the young players, and decide who they want on the roster for next season or not.
Hopefully, this summer the Kings can figure things out from the top-down of the organization and finally put a quality product on the court in the new Golden 1 Center. No fan likes to say it’s over for their team, but it’s time that the purple and white to finally wave the white flag.