While the Kings were linked to Michael Porter Jr. and Luka Doncic at various times throughout the pre-draft process, the team appears to be locked in on Marvin Bagley III with the No. 2 pick.
After ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and James Ham of NBC Sports Bay Area, among others, indicated earlier this afternoon that Bagley was looking more and more like the Kings’ man at No. 2, a slew of other reliable reporters have corroborated that news.
Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated, Marc Stein of The New York Times, Sam Amick of USA Today, and Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports have all reported that the Kings are zeroed in on Bagley with the second overall pick (all four Twitter links).
It has long been assumed that the Suns will draft Deandre Ayton with the No. 1 pick, so we now have a good idea of which two players will come off the board first tonight. Things could get interesting at No. 3, where teams may look to move up to snag Doncic, and at No. 4, a pick which has been mentioned in trade rumors for weeks.
As for the Kings, assuming they make it official with Bagley, they’ll head into the 2018/19 season with their top two long-term building blocks in the frontcourt – Bagley and Harry Giles – having not yet appeared in a single NBA game.
Sucks to see another Duke guy go to basketball purgatory.
Sucks to see a team stay in basketball purgatory for, once again, taking the wrong guy.
Who should they take at #2?
No surprise, Kings are a terribly ran franchise.
I wouldn’t pick him this high, but this might be the best pick for the Kings, and trading down might be too treacherous for them. He fits with what they have. He can possibly start and be their leading scorer from day one. I wouldn’t bet against ROY.
he will have the offensive stats for ROY but if he grades out as one of the worst defenders at the 4 in the nba then does he still deserve the award? because all signs point to him being a real poor nba defender
Good question. I think history says “yes”. In part because only a handful of rookies get enough time to be considered, almost all struggle defensively (even if they have good individual skills), and nobody notices defense on bad teams. History also says that ROY isn’t very meaningful (nor are rookie years) at least in terms of eventual player value. Mostly about opportunity. Also, there’s no high end draft and stash coming in next year that I can think of.
So I guess Skal is done there. Hopefully he gets traded somewhere to get a chance.
Kings should go to the Grizzlies and say – okay you keep #4. I’ll take Parsons, you give me 2 1st rounders – unprotected. But you’ve gotta take back 1 of my expiring contracts – Koufos, Z-Bo, Shumpert, Temple (did he opt-in yet?).
Kings need all the assets they can get. I’m dealing anyone not named Giles, Fox, Hield, or Jackson. Anyone else is available (if they are wanted) – Skal, WCS, Mason, Bogdan.
Trading Bogey would be a huge mistake
Vlade is going to take box.
Bagley is gonna be a beast, who cares about defence, for that they can use WCS or anyone else for that matter, but what you want is a guy that can score this is the difficult thing in the NBA, how many bigs can for example do 20+ PPG, anyone can defend, that is a secondary skill, other 4’s like Malone, Barkley, Pau Gasol, C-Webb, Nowitzki… didn’t become legends for their defending… but for their offensive skills, so I don’t care if he can defend or not, he have to be decent at the most.