15 days to speculate.

by dkons21 on Jul 30, 2008 6:02 AM PDT

So the general concensus is Ron Artest + another player(s) for:

Donte Greene, Salary $971,000 (according to Amick's blog)

Future first rounder

Bobby Jackson, Salary $6,090,000

$1,000,000.

Now in theory, unless my math is a little off we could be trading Ron-Ron/Bill-Bill (Rocket's are lucky they only have to pay one salary for both!) straight up without an additional player. However many sources speculate there is at least one more player, possibly both of our second round draft-picks.

What theories can we come up with? I speculate it could be either/both second round picks, Houston could wait a full month and grab Bobby Brown (Unlikely, but hey... who had any idea houston would be a major contender for artest in the first place?), no-one at all, Quincy Douby, or a high-five from a few people that are happy to see Ron-Ron Gone-Gone.

To me both second-round picks make the most sense, just because we have 16 players prior to the deal, and if we're taking 2, we gotta be moving 2, or probably 3. Not to mension, history shows most GM's, especially petrie like to have at least 1 spot open for roster flexibility, but I'm sure there is no way we're dealing 4 total players.

P.S. what scares me most, without making other assumptions, we currently have 4 SF's (Artest, cisco, Salmons, Ewing), and five PF's (Moore, K9(Woof), Reef, Williams, Thompson), and getting Greene in the trader for artest basically leaves us in the same situation roster wise... Maybe cisco/salmons can spend some time at the 2 since we only have 2 shooting guards? but that'd probably be best saved for another thread, after the trade.

Your thoughts and rationalizations ladies and gentlemen?

(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)

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Well if you only consider players who can/will actually play . . .

we’ll have three small forwards (Salmons, Garcia, Greene), three power forwards(Mikki, JT, Williams), two centers, two shooting guards, and three point guards (Beno, Bobby, and Bobby). That is pretty fair distribution. And you’ve actually got a veteran (if you consider K-Mart and Salmons veterans) at every position. B-Jax and Miller can train their guys. Don’t know if Mikki will do much training, but hey, he’ll shout a lot.

If we can take this nucleus and shed some salary wither this year or definitely next, along with a couple of firsts next year, we could be a playoff team again sooner than some might have expected. Now it’s really a matter of getting these guys playing time to see what their upside really is.

With that, playing time, in mind, I wouldn’t be suprised at all to see some cobination of Salmins, Mikki, Miller traded this year.

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by SavageBeast on Jul 30, 2008 9:15 AM PDT reply actions

Yeah I definitely think playing time will determine who gets traded

But I would expect the Kings to shed salary before they do that even.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Jul 30, 2008 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Hmm

...three point guards (Beno, Bobby, and Bobby)...

Not quite the Killer B’s . . . but perhaps the Moderately Priced with Potentially High Upside B’s?

It rolls off the tongue very naturally, really.

by smgmatt on Jul 30, 2008 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

LOL!!!!!

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Jul 30, 2008 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions