when we both thought Beno was a 3yr/10 million player which I think all of us would be alright with even after this last season. If Diogu asks for anything more than 1 yr 2 mill or a 2 yr 4 million dollar contract then he can go and try to convince another NBA team that he isn’t a Euro league player. I don’t even know if I would go that high maybe a 2yr/3 mill deal with the second being a mutual option and all of this is if the Kings don’t draft Blake Griffin #1.

I really don’t want to spend a lot of time talking about it moving forward. But, there isn’t that much due diligence to be done here. There just isn’t. Thats Geoff Petrie talk for: Either he’s willing to come over hell or high water, or he’s not. This buyout is what it is. Rubio’s either going to take it or he’s not, but right now he has nothing to gain by tipping his hand. We won’t here anything about the resolved buyout up until the eve of June 15th. That’s not my prediction; it’s how Dan Fegan works. He’s a hardline guy. No sense in panicking when you have a whole month & half for the other guy to do it. If he reduces it some; hey great. But, I think this is a tactic to see how high teams are willing to take Rubio. That, and I think convincing that Rubio’s European agent won’t be very useful to him. That might be the real back story here. But, that’s just a guess.

I personally preferred my first answer better.

Natt was Petrie’s decision.