Summer League Cuts

by Tom Ziller on Jul 11, 2008 5:13 PM PDT

Via Sam Amick, the Kings cut:

Zabian Dowdell
David Johnson
Lawrence Roberts
Darnell Jones

Dowdell and Roberts were two of the more known names, and Johnson's the local guy.

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I'm confused

What’s the advantage of cutting someone in Summer League? I can think of reasons for it, I just want to know the real reasons.

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by iashwash on Jul 11, 2008 5:26 PM PDT reply actions

They have to make room for the other Artest...again...

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by jjham15 on Jul 11, 2008 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions

quite an appropriate signature

by jeremy548 on Jul 11, 2008 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions

They’re not getting paid enough to warrant firing (if they’re getting paid/compensated with freee goodies). Even if the team decides they’re not going to be valuable, wouldn’t it be nice to have the extra bodies in practice? Or is the demeanor of a player who isn’t playing dangerous enough to warrant removing the guy? I’m curious – any theories?

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by iashwash on Jul 11, 2008 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Maybe the extra bodies

were so they could have good practices here, but now they’re cutting down to a vaible number for the summer league.

Or maybe they narrowed Brad’s “source” to one of these four guys and just cut them all loose.

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by section214 on Jul 11, 2008 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions

1. Travel. They made the cuts before leaving for Vegas.

2. If they aren’t going to get minutes, it’s better to not take them and let them start working on other options.

by Tom Ziller on Jul 12, 2008 6:05 AM PDT up reply actions

It's very clear there's 6 and maybe 7 if you include the dude from NMST

Beyond that there isn’t little else for anyone else. I would suspect long shot’s with no future beyond camp will show up with the Kings looking to impress anyone to get a NBDL shot. Because all those camp spots will be taken by Singletary Ewing, the NMST kid whom I’m blanking on his name, and all that stuff. This isn’t a Justin Williams situation where a rookie Free Agent can play onto the team because there wasn’t a 2nd round pick.

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by pookeyguru on Jul 12, 2008 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions