Will the Sacramento Kings use all of their second round picks?
The Sacramento Kings have three second round picks in this year’s draft, but whether they use all three remains up in the air.
‘What will the Sacramento Kings do with all their second round picks?’, that’s the question many fans are asking — especially as we get closer to the 2019 NBA Draft, but maybe the question they should be asking is ‘how can the Sacramento Kings maximize their assets?’.
We simply don’t know what the Kings are planning with their draft picks, but we can figure out how the team can maximize those picks, regardless of whether they actually select somebody with them.
As of now, the Sacramento Kings have picks #40, #47 and #60 in the 2019 Draft and 10 total over the next three years. We all know they can’t use all of those picks — though the Philadelphia 76ers have shown us a team could use that many second rounders, as they made 13 second round selections from 2015-2018. The Kings, however, are shifting to a win-now viewpoint, a far cry from the 76ers ‘tank-now’ view they’ve had for most of the 2010s.
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As a result, it’s unlikely the Sacramento Kings make three selections with their three second round picks.
Looking at their picks, it’s highly probably the Sacramento Kings will make a selection with the 60th overall pick. There’s not much they can do with it in terms of trading, so they’ll likely stay there and select a player who’ll either be an overseas stash or somebody they want to take a Summer League flyer on. (Tacko Fall, anyone?)
As for the 40th and 47th overall picks, that’s less certain. The first six prospects the Kings invited to workouts are all projected to go undrafted, so that doesn’t help to add much clarity. There have been some potential trade opportunities arising for disgruntled players (enter: Frank Ntilikina), but it, like all things in the NBA, remains a fluid situation.
In fact, we’re unlikely to know what the Kings will do with their until the end of the first round of the draft, where they may start trying to move up to grab a prospect they like (please take Admiral Schofield). But until we start seeing Sacramento bringing in some borderline first-round players for workouts, we won’t know exactly who that could be.
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Based on what (little) we know now, I’d say they make a selection with pick #60 and package #40 and #47 to either move up or acquire a low-cost player like Ntilikina. We’ll just have to wait and see if it plays out that way.