So, I wake up. I find out the pick swaps are basically the next 2 seasons. I found the protected 1st was in 2018.

I hate this trade more now, sober, than I ever could drunk.

Yet again, a short sighted reality of "Gotta build around Boogie" means the Kings are going to get worse unless they absolutely hit their signings out of the park. (Thankfully Monta Ellis Is headed to Indy.)

I would suggest that people focus less on the draft pick, and far more on the pick swaps. As Derek Bodner put it so well, given how dysfunctional the Kings have been and the general lack of contuinuity the Kings have illustrated, particularly over the last year, those pick swaps are a prize.

http://nba.derekbodner.com/2015/07/02/sixers-acquire-nik-stauskas-1st-round-pick-from-kings/

One of the things, that many Kings fans may not understand, is that the Sixers have to be at 90% of the cap (salary floor) or pay the existing players on the roster the balance of the difference.

Given how many assets the Sixers already have, it's arguable their most valuable is having 21% of ping pong balls to obtain a top 3 pick in both 2016 & 2017. (The Lakers pick is top 5 protected. And you can't pick swap 2 other teams picks. )

Which the Sixers got for cap space they were already blowing a chunk of on JaVale McGee. The Sixers took all season to get to the 90% floor last season. Unless you blew Sam Hinkie away, he wasn't dying to get to the floor in July unless something magnificent came his way.

Think about that. More than any of that, it tells me that Kings ownership and management are desperate to change the trajectory of the franchise.

Notice I haven't mentioned Nik Stauskas. It's because, while his development could be a major plus for Philadelphia, he wasn't really a Vlade Divac pick or probably had a strong advocate remaining amongst the Kids brass. Plus, it was pretty likely the Kings would have had to choose between Stauskas and McLemore in the next 2 years. Additionally, if Stauskas had more believers the Kings wouldn't have had to use him in a salary dump as part of yet another roster makeover.

I get trying to win, and build the roster around Cousins. I do. As
much as I dislike the Boogie dipshit, I get it. But, if you do not have an out to get a top 3 pick if things do not go your way, then you end up with a NBA equivalent of a Chernobyl disaster.

The Kings behave as if they are trying to prove to Cousins, his pet shark Dan Fegan, and the fanbase, that they are in control. The easiest way to illustrate power and control is to embody such. The Kings aren't a joke around the NBA because they are mentally challenged. They are a joke because the reasonable, logical, nominal things simply aren't being done. You are a joke when act retarded when you have no legitimate claim to being mentally challenged. Nobody in ownership or management. This is the NBA equivalent of being retarded.

The Kings want Cousins to stay, he wants to leave using his BJing Jim Buss in public agent to do it. So, now the Kings are stuck with Cousins, a head coach who might resign his position in hopes that he can get a job elsewhere, or wjom they might fire because George Karl knows better than this get into bed with a clusterfuck assclown like Dan Fegan. And the Kings are incredibly desperate, they have shown they are struggling big time.

So the Kings are up shit creek without a paddle, or put another way, the primary stockholder of the NBAs equivalent of buttfuck Egypt.

The good news, I suppose, a silver lining if you will, is that anything is negotiable and one way the Kings could get out of this is by trading Cousins to Philly. That would be incredibly amusing, on so many levels.

But for now, the pick swaps look awful. Terrible ownership, a rookie exec, and desperation. A terribad mix, and thus my view that the Kings are screwed for the next decade.

Sigh.

P.S. I hope they win 50 games the next 2 seasons and render this tweet moot. But I'm not an ass kissing fanboy desperate to please. My feeling this will end poorly, and unfortunately I think that's the most realistic and logical outcome. And, frankly, it was unavoidable. That's the part I find most galling and egregious.

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