… which makes it seem like a really weird trade to me.

but it looks like we keep the 2nd and 4th pick and dump Cisco’s salary. Does that make us draft Jordan Hill? We would be one deep in the front court, we could sign Gortat and Diogu and draft Harden or Derozan and Rubio. Keeping Kenny Thomas’ expiring on the books, maybe Thomas and Martin are enough to land a Chris Bosh type player. Leaving us with

Rubio/Udrih
Harden/Greene
Nocioni/Greene
Bosh/Diogu
Gortat/Hawes

Maybe that team is good.

But this would be a tempting deal.

That is all.

trade Hawes than JT.

Petrie thinks it’s worth it, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I would definitely miss JT, though.

JT and CIsco for the #2? The only way that works, IMO, is if #2 and #4 are packaged to the Clippers for the #1 – Blake Griffin.

In other I don’t believe it news:
- The Clippers than package Baron Davis to the Clippers for Monta Ellis
- No way Minnesota packages the pale face of a dairyland team who represented them at the draft lottery anywhere.

Kings deal:
Francisco Garcia
Jason Thompson
Kenny Thomas

Grizz deal:

1. overall pick – Rubio
   Darko Milicic
   Marko Jaric
   Darrell Arthur

Unless the Kings get another young big somewhere, you don’t move JT for an unknown. Maybe Petrie pulls the trigger on this, drafts Rubio at #2 and trades the #4 to NY for the #8 and David Lee? Or some other move that bings a young big back in to the mix? By itself, this trade rumor seems odd. In conjunction with other moves, maybe it works.

If someone yells fire, I guess you guys stampede. The “trade rumor” comes from a source of dubious reliability in memphis. He didn’t even accredited it to “anonymous sources”, in fact he doesn’t mention the source at all.

Even if he did, I can tell you the source: The Memphis front office. They are desperately doing everything they can to create a bidding war for this pick, despite the fact that Thabeet and Rubio both wrecked some of the value in it by completely rejecting them.

Don’t stress. Petrie has made some good trades and some bad trades, but even this rumored one is beyond any bad trade he could ever make.

Its having fun discussing a trade rumor on a message board.

We are not giving up assets to move up because we don’t have enough pieces to do so.

I agree with Raven. This is a rumor from an unreliable source. It might be tipping their hand as to what Memphis is asking for, but the price is too high, and there’s no way the Kings do this deal.

I could see #4 and cash for #2. I can’t envision any scenario where we have both the 4 and the 2, unless we just buy the pick, which Memphis doesn’t want to do.

Ahhhhh why does it take too long to be thursday already………all this speculation’s has been more thrilling than our season…..

That might be the most idiodic rumor out there! Why give up 2 young good players who can contribute and help build the team for a non-proven #2 pick in a weak draft? Makes no sense. The team is so bad, we need to acquire assets and not just hype or jersey sales (thanks, Aileen).

I think the Kings are content at this point to know Tyreke Evans or Stephen Curry will be available when they pick. And they will choose between those two. Whether Rubio is available or not, I do not think matters, as they have no intention to pick him. I would like to be wrong, but all signs say otherwise.

As far as rumored deal, no way.

As LPA mentioned, Jerry Reynolds specifically said something like this isn’t going to happen. On top of that, you can’t trade Thompson unless a big man comes back to replace him. So, if this trade were to go down, the Kings may be looking at Thabeet and not Rubio with the #2 pick. I don’t see how Thabeet really fits with Hawes, as Spencer isn’t quick enough to play power forward. I’m just not seeing this.

One other thing I think is interesting is that Jerry said there are 3 or 4 guys they’re looking at and one they think is going to be significantly better than the others. Absolutely NOTHING the Kings have said gives any indication of which guy that might be.

REALLY?? Thabeet is unproven and probably overrated. He should have dominated the boards in college when playing against 6’9" centers. He doesn’t rebound out of his area well with little lateral quickness. JT is a mulitpositional big and was only a rookie. Let’s not go the way of the Kings and sending away talent before giving them the appropriate amount of time to develop. And Garcia too? Another multi-positional 6th man who can handle the ball and knock down perimeter shots. Just don’t see it to land another center or a 30-40% PG….International ball is very different from the NBA. Go with someone who can get their own shot (a premier asset in the NBA) like Evans or Curry. Evans can also provide the defense at guard the Kings have lacked since Doug Christie. He has the ability to create mismatches as well. I think a backcourt of Evans and Martin would be very potent. Good start with the young bigs and other draft pieces Pietre can pick. Go Kings!!

Draft Express mock draft now has us passing up Tyreke Evans and Ricky Rubio (going #5 and #6) for Jonny Flynn…..yikes.

The point being, the Kings don’t need to trade away the few assets they have to move up to #2 in this draft. Seems there will be a quality pick at #4 regardless. Also curious to see what Portland does this year as they’ve been very active on draft day recently and have a considerable amount of young talented players. Also, you gotta like the leadership and tenacity Flynn has displayed (not sure if #4 is accurate, but like his drive and heart).
But, who are we….if we had the answers, we’d be working in some team’s draft war room. This should be fun!

beef burgers for the draft party.

Oh, I’m sorry, I hope no one thought that this sounded like some sort of reliable information regarding basketball.

Let them think it’s Jason + Garcia, but give them LaSalle + Garcia?

I’m guessing in this proposed deal other salary would be coming back to Sacramento. It’s not like it would be a deal to free up salary. the main components would be the #2 pick and JT/Garcia.

Rubio and Thabeet make the most sense but I wouldn’t completely discount them drafting Rubio and Tyreke.

Those might be the two highest rated players on their board, and the main thing on a team as down as the Kings are right now is to add as much raw talent as possible. I also think Tyreke might be able to play at the 3 some.

we have a major hole at the 4 spot. If this trade went down I’d take Rubio at 2, Harden/Evans at 4, and trade the worse player out of Harden/Evans and Martin, while picking up a good 4 in the next draft.