Bogdan Bogdanovic: 6'6"
Buddy Hield: 6'4"
HoopsHYpe, your one stop shopping strip mall for news, rumors and conjecture, had some postings on these Sacramento Kings.
BB a restricted free agent.
This reporting indicated that Bogdanovich is curious and Buddy Hield is furious, as in I WANT TO START.
Hield's next four years come in at $25, 23, 21 and 18 million.
The CONJECTURE revolves around how do the Kings budget enough money to reup Marvin Bagley and DeAndre Fox if they are paying Hield starters money and looking to re-up Bogdanovic.
Both are 28 and in their prime.
176 408 .431
278 651 .427
271 688 .394
Don't know that Hield is a draft oicks + expiring contracts option
But holy fuck, can he ever shoot the trey. The above high usage numbers are from the last three seasons, and I have a distinct memory of Hield nuking us during one Knicks-Kings encounter.
On the flip side, the scouting report on the 6'6" BB is of a multidimensional wing with facilitator skills who can man the 2-1-3, play defense and shootShootSHOOT. Not quite at the unconscious level of a Hield, but on a team where the ball is being shared more readily than the talented Fox?
The money we will save by NOT GIVING Chris Paul $41 and 44 million for the next two seasons would be available to minimally offer Bogdonavich Timmy Hardaway money, which is likely what it will take.
Kiid's assorted vocabulary of hehs and
??s notwithstanding, there was a report on line which indicated that DJ Augustin was on the Knicks' radar, and as a career reserve PG who while on the diminutive side at 5'11" and defensively challenged, can get to the rack, convert his FTs at a high percentage (a career .865%), and the past four years with Orlando converted 3-poionters at a .347, .419, 421 and .348 clip.
More significantly, he is an unrestricted FA who was paid Payton money last season, and is credited with being a good mentor to Brother Fultz.
Yes, we have had middling results with the likes of Ramon Sessions, Jarrett Jack and Elfrid Payton.
But i get the distinct impression, that unlike Dimwit Hornacek's usage of Jack at the expense of Ntilikina's development, that this season French Frank is going to see meaningful minutes at the 2-1-3 spots and that Coaches Thibs and Bryant are going to be all in on getting into Dennis Smith's head, and back to how he was playing in the third of a season immediately after we first got him here.
All of which depends interdependent talent.
Dennis Smith's ability to get to the rack and facilitate would surely benefit from the presence that dangerous shooters and three point threats, which at present are limited to Bullock and the largely unproven Brazdeikis and Knox, would offer in the way of wiggle room, not unlike how Barrett would benefit from someone who could consistently break down the defense and create cutting lanes.
Free Agents and Draft Picks will likewise create a domino effect as far as final personnel decisions.
The draft being in November, and the season unlikely to kick off until January.
Yikes.
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