Kings center Alex Len will return to the team on a one-year contract, sources tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
It will be the fourth straight season in Sacramento for the 31-year-old Len, who originally joined the team as a free agent in 2021 and then re-signed last summer. Len appeared in 48 games this season, all off the bench, and averaged 2.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 9.3 minutes per night.
Len will be back on a veteran’s minimum deal for 2024/25, and although he’s projected to make a little more than $3.3MM, the new contract will only count as $2.1MM for Sacramento’s salary cap and tax purposes.
Len was considered to be a top prospect when he was selected by Phoenix with the fifth pick in the 2013 draft. He never got close to achieving stardom, but he has been able to carve out a long NBA career, mostly as a backup center. He also had brief stays in Atlanta, Toronto and Washington before coming to the Kings.
With Malik Monk agreeing to a new deal last week, Sacramento has taken care of both its unrestricted free agents before they could begin negotiating with other teams.
I mean…he’s not bad. He just never plays
Exactly. He played good play off minutes last year but was never out there this year. Brown had some weird obsession JaVale for some reason. JaVale would go from decent 8-9 man to absolutely unplayable in about 30 seconds randomly during his minutes. I think Len is more of a Sabonis insurance than anything else. 5 market is going to be tough.
Starting to think are never going to do anything.
This signing and now two re-signings earlier is what was thought of putting them over the top (Vlade D). Always one of the worst teams in the modern age, recently starting turning it around but are still making mistakes all the time to reach further ground.
Len is a decent back up.
Noel punching the air right now
Decent draft this year for them actually doing something (could of had Jackson-Davis last year)
Good signing on your two way guys
Kings need to see serious improvement from Keegan this year. Broke the rookie 3pt record, improved dramatically on the defensive side last year. Now he needs to put it all together. If he can average 20 pts a game without impeding Fox then this team has a chance to make the 2nd round.