6:35pm: The Sixers and Kings have issued press releases announcing the trade is official. Philly gets Stauskas, Landry, Thompson, Sacramento’s 2018 first-round pick and the right to swap first-rounders in 2016 and 2017. Sacramento gets the rights to Gudaitis and Mitrovic.
“Jason, Carl and Nik are all tremendous professionals and we’re grateful for their contributions,” Kings president of basketball and franchise operations Vlade Divac said in Sacramento’s statement. “Jason leaves an indelible mark in Sacramento as the team’s alltime leader in games played, but he was also a champion in the community. Carl and Nik were well regarded as teammates and respected stewards of the organization during their time as Kings. We wish them all great success in the future.”
JULY 10TH, 11:48am: Neither team has made an official announcement, though the RealGM transactions log and salary cap expert Larry Coon (Twitter links) indicate the trade has indeed taken place. Sacramento creates trade exceptions equivalent to the salaries of Stauskas, Landry and Thompson, but those are poised to disappear once the team formalizes its free agent signings.
JULY 3RD, 11:35am: Executives around the league are talking about the notion that the Kings might back out of the deal now that they’ve missed on Ellis and Matthews, though none of those execs truly expect Sacramento to pull out, reports Jake Fischer of SI Now (Twitter link).
JULY 2ND, 8:54am: A future second-round pick is also going to Sacramento, Wojnarowski writes in his full story. The Sixers receive Sacramento’s 2018 first-round pick and the right to swap first-rounders with the Kings in 2016 and 2017, a league source tells USA Today’s Derek Bodner (Twitter link). The overseas assets that the Kings receive are the rights to Arturas Gudaitis and Luka Mitrovic, the 47th and 60th picks, respectively, in last week’s draft, ESPN’s Pablo Torre tweets. Gudaitis just signed a two-year deal with an option for a third year with Lietuvos Rytas of Lithuania, the team announced (translation via Orazio Cauchi of Sportando). The Sixers are interested in keeping Landry, Thompson and Stauskas rather than waiving any of them, a source said to Bob Cooney of the Philadelphia Daily News (on Twitter).
10:56pm: The Sixers will receive a protected first round pick from the Kings, and swap rights with Sacramento in the first round of two other drafts, Zach Lowe of Grantland tweets.
JULY 1ST, 10:17pm: The Sixers and Kings have agreed to a deal that would send Jason Thompson, Carl Landry, and Nik Stauskas to Philadelphia, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports (Twitter links). Philadelphia is expected to send Sacramento the rights to overseas players in return, notes Wojnarowski (on Twitter), though it is unclear which players will be involved.
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The deal is a salary dump for Sacramento, tweets Wojnarowski, with the Kings clearing room for pursuing free agents. Thompson is set to earn $6,431,250 in 2015/16, Landry $6.5MM, and Stauskas $2,869,440. Sacramento is clearing the decks for a pursuit of point guard Rajon Rondo, swingman Wesley Matthews, and possibly Monta Ellis, the Yahoo! scribe adds (via Twitter).
Stauskas, 21, is the prize here for the Sixers, who were willing to absorb the contracts of Thompson and Landry to acquire him, Wojnarowski tweets. The young shooting guard failed to impress in Sacramento after being selected with the No. 8 overall pick back in the 2014 NBA Draft. In 73 appearances during his rookie campaign, Stauskas averaged 4.4 points, 1.2 rebounds, and 0.9 assists, with a slash line of .365/.322/.859. He should have every opportunity to develop on a young Sixers team badly in need of shooters.
Thompson still has two years remaining on his deal, though his salary of $6,825,000 for the 2016/17 campaign is partially guaranteed for just $2.65MM. In 81 contests last season, the 28-year-old averaged 6.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 1.0 assists in 24.6 minutes per game. Landry, 31, also has two years remaining on his contract, though both seasons are fully guaranteed. He logged 70 appearances last season for the Kings, posting 7.2 PPG, 3.8 RPG, and 0.4 APG in 15.0 minutes per night.
Uhh Philadelphia is about too be nice.. Especially after next off season.. They need a pg
Nice!
For who? I guess were making cap space to sign Rondo.
If Stauskas pans out like he’s supposed to, this is a MAJOR steal by the 76ers
Finally 76ers make a move that makes sense.
Nik will fit great. Philly needs a shooter and he’s going to be a great one
Hopefully Kings don’t blow their wad on Rondo…he’s a cancer they are going to have to try to trade away by end of the year cuz he won’t be happy.
Not sure why Philly would do this deal. They’ve just added 16M of salary for 3 backup players. Great deal for Sacramento.
They’re so far below the cap floor they would have to pay this money out anyway. They essentially just got Nik Stauskas for free. Steal for the Sixers.
But Stauskas isn’t very good. He’s a career backup SG.
He is 21 years old and just finished his rookie season! You can’t make that assumption!
U know Philly needs to add cap to their payroll, right & they’re giving up nothing!!
Because we have money, itds a great deal for the Sixers plus we get to swap first rd picks. Kings got robbed and Sixers got the better of the deal IMO
Kings need someone good
Best decision in years. All three suck. They could have traded them for lifgt bulbs for all I care
Could’ve got more for Nik
So the 76ers add two more big man
Can’t have enough big men I suppose. I think Okafor will start at SG based on the current roster.
Just means there gonna trade some.
76ers offer Okafor to the Lakers for Randle and Russell, Lakers not smart enough to accept.
So Lakers had a chance to get okafor before Russell but should trade for someone they could have gotten and last years first pick? Yea dumb huh
Lol 76ers are deep at front court especially if Joel Embiid comes back healthy. They could become what the Grizzlies are if they get better defensively and have a PG like Mike Conley
Yeahh!! I like that
Hopefully the 76ers are finished trading yet.
anything is better than the players PHI had now, as per the writer a few hours ago nailing it on the head about acting like a real NBA team and having no player that would start anywhere else and losing so much in 25 months under this GM,
Looks like some 1st rd picks are in play here, so this makes more sense.
This reminds of the trade GS did with the Jazz to acquire Andre Iguadola. But here they traded last year’s pick instead of 1st round draft pick.
That trade seems to have worked out nicely for GS.
What the heck are the Kings doing? I swear Vlade Divac and Mr. Tibco himself are killing this team for players “the owner” wants.
They’ve been trying to get rid of Thompson for a few years now. Landry is getting older now and value is diminishing more every day. Both are backup forwards at this point. Stauskas looks like a bust already. They should have drafted Payton last year like coaches wanted too before ownership jumped in demanding Stauskas. If the Kings can rid themselves of these players for either Matthews or Ellis, then it is a win. I’ve heard there are some 1st rd picks involved, so we’ll have too what comes of that before we judge this deal at the end.
Good trade for the kings
The Kings are the Browns of the NBA. Inept.
The fact that the Sixers can now “swap” 1st round picks either next year or the year after is the key to this trade, plus the 76ers got themselves a shooter that could be really good, all they gave up were two 2nd rounders that were never gonna play for them anyway.
Sixers win this trade 10-fold.