DECEMBER 15: The Kings have officially signed Toscano-Anderson, tweets Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee. His contract is non-guaranteed, per James Ham of The Kings Beat (Twitter link).
DECEMBER 14: The Kings are signing Juan Toscano-Anderson to a one-year deal, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link). Toscano-Anderson, 30, had stints with the Warriors, Lakers and Jazz and will now fill Sacramento’s final open roster spot after impressing with the G League’s Mexico City Capitanes.
In 11 Showcase Cup games with the Capitanes, Toscano-Anderson averaged 19.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.0 blocks. He holds career averages of 4.3 PPG, 3.1 RPG and 1.9 APG in 191 career NBA appearances (37 starts).
Toscano-Anderson worked out with the Warriors this offseason, but ultimately didn’t come away with a deal of any sort. However, Andscape’s Marc J. Spears tweets Kings head coach Mike Brown had strong interest in bringing Toscano-Anderson to training camp this offseason, though that never materialized.
As The Sacramento Bee’s Jason Anderson notes (Twitter link), Brown and Toscano-Anderson have familiarity with each other. Toscano-Anderson played for the Warriors for three seasons while Brown was lead assistant, and the duo won a championship together in 2021/22.
The Kings opened up a spot on their 15-man roster last month when they waived Filip Petrusev, who they acquired for cash after he was sent to the Clippers in the James Harden blockbuster. After surveying its options, Sacramento landed on signing Toscano-Anderson.
Anderson notes in a piece detailing the move that the Kings needed to address their wing depth after experiencing matchup difficulties in recent losses to the Pelicans and Clippers, and signing the Marquette product should help with those issues.
It’s unclear how much playing time Toscano-Anderson will receive right away but its possible the veteran could make an immediate impact on the rotation. Players like Keon Ellis, Jalen Slawson, Colby Jones and Kessler Edwards make up Sacramento’s forward and wing depth on the deep bench.
I would have rather seen Stanley Johnson.
You dont understand substance, character, commitment, and winning.
JTA is a great pick up.
He is going to leak all the warriors secrets and plays…brilliant maneuver by the capitol city
Are you forgetting that Mike Brown was an ex-GSW’s Assistant Coach of Steve Kerr before moving to the Kings..
Kings already know all their secrets and plays with so many coaches now in Sacramento.
His highlight tape albeit short is pretty impressive. Full disclosure I’ve been a kings fan for 33 of my 38 years on this planet and until the signing … never heard of him. The reel reminded me of Rudy gay when he was in sac. Yea yea different build , position blah blah. How about Duarte, Mitchell, Barnes, 28’ 1st rounder maybe even the 30 1st rounder and go get the leagues other D Mitchell ! One can dream. I’d really rather Huerter not be involved and Murray is a hard NO . In a actual perfect world that trade or the same guys for Pascal or OG and somehow someway the kings free up a few dollars then they can make sure to lock down THE GUY who is winning 6th man this year Malik Monk . Sorry I’m sick and have had to many cold meds .
Kings fan as well, no way we get Siakam or OG without Murray. Unless they get desperate.