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Three Players

Three players:

Player One is listed at 7-1, and 245 lbs. In one year of college play, he averaged 15 pts and 6.5 rebounds in 15 minutes in the PAC 10. In two years of NBA play, he averaged 13.5 pts and 9 rebounds per 36 minutes.

Player Two is listed at 6-11 250 lbs. In four years of college play, he averaged 16.5 and 9.5 in 32 minutes in the MAAC. In his first year of NBA play, he averaged 14 and 9.5 per 36 minutes.

Player Three is listed at 6-9 266 lbs. In three years of college play, he averaged 16 and 10 in 28 minutes in the ACC. In three years of NBA play he has averaged 16 and 9.5 per 36 minutes.

Player 1 has played a total of 150 NBA games. He is 21 years old. He shoots 46% from the field.

Player 2 has played a total of 84 NBA games. He is 23 years old. He shoots 49% from the field.

Player 3 has played a total of 84 NBA games. He is 25 years old. He shoots 46% from the field.

I think you know who these players are and where this is going, but more after the jump.

Poll
How do you feel about Sean May so far this year?
I like that PW is starting him and think that he's earned it.
51 votes
I think he is all right. But don't think he should be starting.
81 votes
Bench fodder. Mikki Moore part deux at a cheaper price.
17 votes
There are enough Sacramento Kings jokes. We don't need another.
5 votes
Who cares. His food bill is helping the local economy!
7 votes

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Free-agent swingman Desmond Mason met with the Sacramento Kings this week and could sign as soon as Thursday.

Mason took a physical after meeting with Kings officials in Sacramento on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press.

2 months ago Webber-and-williams-slam-401_tiny SavageBeast 11 comments 0 recs

Putting the "Build" in "Rebuilding"

I started this as a response on the Boozer post and realized it was really too long for that. I keep reading that we shouldn’t sign this player or that player because we are "rebuilding." By its very nature, rebuilding is tearing something down—or starting with it torn down—and making the same thing or something newer and better. Clearly we are rebuilding. But what phase are we in?

There are two kinds of demolition—intentional and unintentional. The Clippers would be a great example of unintentional demolition. They don’t mean to give away all their best talent, they just do. I think most of us would agree the our demolition phase started unintentionally when Webber injured his knee. We didn’t know it at the time, but we had reached our peak and began the decent. The process sped up as we lost Vlade, Christie, Peja, etc.

A few of us clung to the hope that we had already hit bottom, and keeping players like Artest would help us rebound more quickly. Clearly Kings management didn’t feel that way. Last year we went into full blown, intentional, damn-the-torpedoes, wrecking ball teardown. I would say the last part of that process will be complete when K-9 (woof) goes bye-bye. Since Webber got injured, we have replaced every player on the team. (Yeah, we got B-Jax back, but now he’s probably gone again.) You don’t get much lower than worst in the NBA.

This would put us in the "building" phase. The goal of building is to get us back into the playoffs and hopefully ring contention. How we do this—especially how quickly we do this—depends on what we want to have when all is said and done, which I’ll explore shortly. First we need to know what our base and is, how we can build on it. Let’s take a look at what we have to work with.
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The Return of the Kings

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My STR brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A draft may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of crafty GMs and unsure point guards, when the players we want get chosen before us! But it is not this day! This day we pick! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!"

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I know it's supposed to be Chad Ford's 6.0 Mock Draft, but read what he has to say about picks 2-5 and tell me if he has any more clue than we do.

It's like, "They could take this person, this person, or this person. But I'll pick that person." BTW, he has Rubio going to OKC and us taking Evans.

5 months ago Webber-and-williams-slam-401_tiny SavageBeast 10 comments 1 recs

If you're like me, wondering how you can possibly make it through the next 4 days without exploding. Here is an addictive card game that will also teach you things like who has better FT stats--K-Mart or Yao? Who has more playoff appearances--Kidd or Kobe.

I think you might have to register at NBA.com to play it. But it's free. So far I haven't been able to make it past Larry Brown on rookie level.

5 months ago Webber-and-williams-slam-401_tiny SavageBeast 0 comments 0 recs

"Thabeet was a combination of he's had some shoulder situations and he wanted to talk to some other teams," Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace said of the 7-foot-3 center out of Connecticut. "It's also what goes on this time of the year with guys showing, not showing, that type of thing. The gamesmanship of the draft."

So is that a nice way of saying, "yeah, he blew us off too?"

5 months ago Webber-and-williams-slam-401_tiny SavageBeast 12 comments 0 recs

Sorry, just couldn't resist this "breaking news" from Channel 3. Your inside source for the latest up-to-the-minute Kings news.

I especially liked this part. "Rambis once served as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers."

Dang these guys are good!

6 months ago Webber-and-williams-slam-401_tiny SavageBeast 29 comments 0 recs

"Having worked in Philadelphia, [Thibodeau] understands the market, the demands, and the media pressures," Van Gundy wrote in an e-mail. "He has been pigeonholed as a defensive guru in the media, but he has great leadership abilities and he relates extremely well with great players as well as young players."

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Self-serving mention of Ron Artest

Okay, this is totally self-serving and only peripherally related to the Kings. But hey, it's my 2 minutes of fame, so I'll take it. And the book is quite likely the only young adult fantasy novel to mention the recently departed Ron Artest. I did try to slip that in on the interview, but they cut it. If this embedded video doesn't work, I'll put a link in the next reply.

Okay so the embedded video won't embed, but you can see it here.

Unfortunately no appearance was made by the lovely LPA.

The video is on the right side.

  

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