Why is Derrick Favors in Sacramento?

I’m currently reading “Perdido Street Station” and I have to say, the dude loves his thesaurus. Great story, but way way too many thesaurus words, when a simpler, more common word would have worked just as well.

As for the point of your post. I hope it’s because we are considering trading up!

It opens up a lot of speculation…

I imagine that, if nothing else, Geoff Petrie always wants to be the smartest man in the room. While its a safe bet that Favors will be gone, if there’s any chance he may be available then Petrie will work him out.

As you said, TZ, the real question is why Favors’ agent would make Favors available to the team. Perhaps he’s hearing whispers and getting scared. Maybe it’s just trying to increase demand. But perhaps Prather hasn’t had much experience with the Kings, because I don’t really see them being a pawn for anyone’s draft stock.

Puzzling indeed.

Hey, There’s a big, thats likely to go top 3-4. If we get the chance to see what he can do in a workout, then that gives us a better indication of weather we think its worthwhile to move up. Without working him out, we’re kind of blindly making decisions. Its def interesting though.

I’m kind of hoping he does well, If he’s a franchise player or a number 2 on our team, then great, lets do it..!

what a great opportunity to work out both Favors and Cousins on the same day! Getting to see both work out as well as talk to them almost simultaneously should be a nice basis for comparison between the two. And if the Kings are seriously impressed by Favors, maybe Petrie tries to move up and get the kid…

to see if he’d be worth trading up for. I’m with Pookey in that if the Kings did trade up it would be to try to take a Favors or Cousins.

I think you have to work out as many players as you can. You never know who may fall draft day. What if Favors, somehow, miraculously falls and the Kings never get a close look?

I do agree that it could also mean they’re evaluating whether moving up is an option. It’s exciting either way.

I think it’s THAT simple.

Are you going to be there today??

does Breach show up?

Both guys have a possibility of falling to the 5th spot. Perhaps it is just as simple at that.

I guess we have to wait and see how the work out turned out , but the Kings Lack Toughness and i think Cousins and Jarvis Varnado Block shot Skills is a Start to get rid of the Soft Label. and i think we should find away to get (PG ) Randle and (SG) Crawford.

Cousins ,Varnado ,Randle. and i’m a Happy Camper. I’m just stuck in 2002 and i want to see the Kings in the Play-offs agian. it’s been awhile , hopefully petrie will get us there.

Could like the idea of a ‘warm-up’ workout for his client to prepare him for more important individual workouts with the 76ers and Nets. Favors gets first workout out of the way and goes to Philly and elsewhere with better idea of the process.

Just speculating, but initial agent contact with top teams to gauge interest could have been mild and non-committal, and agent came away with impression his client could be passed. Based on college stats and NBA readiness, the safe picks are Turner and Wesley Johnson over Favors. Floundering teams and GMs gravitate to safety when they cannot afford a botched pick.

More likely, like Ziller implies, is top teams hinted at the possibility of moving picks for right deal, cap space, and the Kings expressed desired to be aggressive and move up if client was impressive in visit.

The reality is that of the consensus of Top 5, if one exists, (Wall, Turner, Cousins, Johnson Favors), Favors was the least accomplished as a collegiate. From that perspective, his participation today makes sense.

True, Kings MO is not to trade up or down, but Kings have also not had this much available cap space before, or budding franchise player around whom to aggressively construct a team. This opens up new range of possibilities.

that’s what I heard anyway…

Do draft picks have cap holds? Just curious if that may be even more reason they may want to trade down and do a salary dump

And, I think there could be a very good chance Favor drops to #5.

Wall goes to Washington.

 But, Philly could take any of the remaining to 4. They need shooting, so Turner and Johnson are in the running. And, Dalembert is in the final year of his contract, and he’s 30 years old. So, Cousins and Favor are in the running.

I believe the 76er’s take Cousins. While Doug Collins, Philly’s new coach, was the coach of the Chicago Bulls, Chicago drafted Centers all three years. Brad Sellers 7’0" in 86, Olden Polynice 6’11" in 87, and Will Perdue 7’0" in 88, and while most of that might have been from the GM, I think Collins played a part in the decision.

Also, the 76’ers are going to find it next to impossible to move Brand and his $51M contract. Dalembert makes $12.9M this year. It’s going to be too expensive to resign Dalembert, but he could be a valuable trade piece at the trade deadline.

So, they pick Cousins, he’ll have until the trade deadline to play behind Dalembert and get the feel of playing in the NBA. Then next season, the 76ers have a Center on the rookie scale contract instead of a vet making $12.9M. Philly ends up with a Starting line up this season of Holiday PG, Iggy SG, Young SF, Brand PF, and Dalembert C, with Cousins and Speights at backup C & PF.

NJ passes on Favors, because the Russian promised wins now, and there are 3 PF FA available. That leaves Turner or Johnson, and either would help NJ. I think they take Turner, then after the draft they try to sign 2 Max FA’s. If they get assurances that 2 Max FA’s will sign, then they trade Turner for a Future #1. If they can only get Bosh, Amare, or Boozer to sign then they keep Turner. There starting line up could end up Lopez C, Bosh/Amare PF, Douglas-Roberts SF, Turner SG and Harris PG with Yi and T. Williams off the bench.

That leaves Favor and Johnson left at #4. I don’t know which Minny takes, both have potential and athleticism, but Johnson probably helps out right away offensively so I’ll guess 55% chance they take Johnson and 45% chance Favors.

So, there is a chance Favors falls to #5. Now the big question is, ‘does GP take Favors or Whiteside’?

I think this is the agent who is seeing that his client could drop and is looking to see what potential clients could trade up for him are. No better way for his agent to get a better commission to get a team (like Philly) to trade down to the 5th pick and have Sacramento pick Favors at the 2nd spot. If it eliminates a competitor for PT (since JT is likely to be included in that kind of deal), than so much the better.

That is what I think the motivation is. I wonder if the agent thinks that a good fit for Favors is in Sac given Evans stature and Favors unassuming tendencies.

Combine that with the notion that the T-Wolves draft for need (sf) and Favors could conceivably slip to the Kings.

Can’t hurt for Petrie to cover all his bases.

1. I don’t know about Wes Johnson
2. No, I don’t think Turner is a lock at 2
3. Spencer

Was it totally closed off to everyone?

A guarantee.

If Favors had been given a promise, a guarantee, a certainty that any of the top 4 teams would absolutely draft him, sure thing, than it would make no sense for Favors to work out in Sacramento – period. As he is, that must not be the case.

Something will go down tomorrow or Tuesday but I’m sworn to secrecy. Argh! RT @phillyfanatic84: Are you hearing any pre-draft Trade Chatter?

about 1 hour ago via UberTwitter

Hmm, this really makes me wonder about Favors’ workout in Sacramento…