Four Potential DeMar DeRozan Trades for the Sacramento Kings | Locked On Kings

Four Potential DeMar DeRozan Trades for the Sacramento Kings | Locked On Kings

By now, you’re probably sick of hearing me say that I think the Sacramento Kings should trade Demar D Rozan this off seasonason. And Dear is more than likely going to want the same thing. But what does a Demar De Rozan trade look like? Well, I am no GM, but I cooked up four potential Demar D Rozan trades that work for the Kings this off seasonason. I’ll share them for you right here on Locked on Kings. You are Locked on Kings, your daily Sacramento Kings podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time. Time for another episode of Locked on Kings. Hello and welcome into Locked on Kings, your podcast hub for Sacramento Kings coverage all off season long. My name is Matt George. I have the privilege of being your host here. I’m a Sacramento sports anchor and reporter for ABC 10 News. And in case you are new here, yes, I am of the belief that it is in the best interest of the Sacramento Kings, but also the best interest of Demar De Rozan for both sides to part ways. Not that it was Demar De Rozan’s fault that things didn’t work here in Sacramento. It’s the fault lies with both parties, all parties. Ultimately, it did not work. And when you’re looking for or looking at potential Demar de Rozan trades, which we’re going to do here on this podcast today, you have to look at circumstances and situations that I believe Dear would approve of. While it’s not exactly the same as last offseason because Demar joined the Kings as part of a sign and trade, essentially Dear had to agree to be traded to Sacramento and he said he came to Sacramento because he believed it was his best opportunity out of all of his options to actually win. Well, ultimately we know how that played out, but Demar is in his mid30s, right? He’s in the sunset of his career. He still has something to give. And I look at Demar De Rozan as a mercenary that a team on the rise or a team that’s firmly in the playoff picture could try to add to their roster. Whether they look at him as a starter or somebody coming in off the bench that just helps them get buckets. I think Demar has value around this league. Now value is realistic, right? As you’re gonna see from these trades, there aren’t many, if any, realistic scenarios where the Sacramento Kings trade Demar De Rozan and get better short term, right? Unless things happen to work out or they find a better fit piece, they’re not going to get a better talent. No matter what happens in Demardos and trade talks, the Sacramento Kings will be trading away the best player in the deal, at least immediately. That’s just the way it is. But as I was doing this exercise and looking through and looking at potential teams and you’ll you’ll you’ll see a theme with the teams that I come up with for uh that are potential trade partners for Demard Rosen. I I realized like there’s there’s a there more options out there than I initially thought, right? And there are some potentially good deals that at least help Scott Perry and this new King’s front office set themselves up for a better future or to get out of the let’s call it mess for lack of a better term that they’ve inherited that the Kings put themselves in with how they handled the trade deadline and everything last season. So here we go. Here are four potential Demar D. Rosen trades this off season. Actually, it’s really five. You’ll see. There’s kind of two in one, but I I’ll get to that uh a little bit later on. Also, it’s important to note that Demar Rozan has two years left on his contract. I believe it’s worth $25.5 million. Let me get the specifics for you. Uh 24.5 million. Yes. So he’s owed 24.7 next season and then his final season is 25.7 million. However, that con or that third season or final year is only partially guaranteed. So essentially you can wave him, move on from him and only pay a portion of of that salary of that contract. By that time, by the way, Demard Rosen will be 37 years old. So here is the first trade. I’m looking at teams that were in the playoffs that need a little bit more. And the one of the first teams that came to mind that I think is really talented and really close, but is also young and could use a veteran scoring boost. I’m looking at the Orlando Magic. So, the Orlando Magic get Demar D Rozan and the Sacramento Kings in return get Contavius Caldwell Pope and are reunited with veteran guard Corey Joseph. So, the Magic get a vet scorer for their deep playoff push, right? They are in a position now where they are trying to win basketball games. Paulo Beno still the star. France Vagner still the guy there in Orlando. None of that changes. Demar just comes in and rounds out that core and gives that team a little extra scoring boost that they were clearly lacking in the playoffs. KCP Contavius Caldwell Pope really struggled offensively in the playoffs. I think the most he scored in a game was eight points, right? He did he didn’t look good. He he struggled for Orlando. So, you are upgrading short term. you are upgrading that position and going out and getting a bonafide score, a bonafide bucket getter to help the Orlando Magic offense have a little bit more of a strong push. I also do feel that Orlando as a roster is better suited to hide or overcome the defensive limitations of Demar D Rozan. So, you can get away with moving on from KCP. KCP is owed $21.6 million next season and then he has a $21.6 million player option the following season. I have to imagine he’s going to exercise that option. So, the Kings essentially get two years of Contavius Caldwell Pope who gives them some wing defensive help. And for his career, he is a 36% three-point shooter. So, he gives the Kings a little bit of size on the perimeter. More of a defensive first perimeter player who can space the floor, can knock down the three at a respectable clip. up. I think he was 34% this past season. So, it dipped a little bit from his career average, but he’s a respectable three-point shooter. Someone that you can line up next to Keegan Murray. You can’t necessarily move Keegan from the four to the three, but you it gives you more of a one-two punch on the wing defensively. I’m not necessarily sure if you would start KCP. It has to it depends on what you do the rest of this offseason. If you go out and find another forward to where you can move Keegan to the three, then you can move KC off of the bench. But I I like KCP as a depth defensive option for Sacramento. And I think it makes a hell of a lot of sense for the Orlando Magic to be interested in a player like D. Rozan who can help provide that short-term win now scoring punch that that team really uh lacked in the playoffs. And then Corey Joseph, a name that you should be a little bit familiar with here in Sacramento, former Kings Guard. He wasn’t a fan favorite here in Sacramento. I don’t know why. He’s one of the nicest guys on the planet, but I understand he he struggled on the court. Cory Joseph provides you guard depth, like point guard depth. And even if you’re not excited about it, don’t worry. Cory Joseph is an expiring contract. $3.4 million. By the end of the season, he’ll be off the books. So, he’s really just in there to make the salaries work for the trade so that Orlando can take on uh the the $24.5 million salary of Demar D. Rozan. That is trade number one. Trade number two, a team maybe not as far along as the Orlando Magic are, but they’re also in the East. They made a big jump this year and they’re poised for more. They’re looking for more. The Detroit Pistons, the Detroit Pistons get Demar De Rozan to add to that. Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivy will be back from his injury. You plug him in with that and the Kings get Tobias Harris in return. Now Tobias Harris is not what he was a handful of years ago. He’s not. He is still a older veteran player that I do could think could give the Sacramento Kings a boost. In fact, Tobias Harris is shortterm exactly the kind of guy that you could bring in and feel comfortable starting at the four and moving Keegan Murray to the three if that’s what you want to do. And it makes a lot of sense for the Kings to potentially want to go that route. Now, Tobias Harris is not a guy that you can look at as a long-term beneficial option for the Sacramento Kings unless he comes in and he fits really well and the Kings decide to offer him a new contract next season. But the point is, or the the following season, the point is though, Tobias Harris is an expiring deal. His $26.6 million contract, he eat it for next season, whatever. He helps you fit kind of your short-term remaining competitive next season window that you’re kind of forced into by what Monty McNair’s regime did with the De’Aran Fox trade. He’s off the books at the end of the year and now suddenly you have that cap space next off season to really do some things and re-evaluate if you’re Scott Perry. He’s averaged or last season he averaged Harris did 13.7 points shot 47% from the field, 34% from three-point range, 86% from the free throw line. Also averaged just shy of six rebounds and just over two assists a game. I mean, I don’t hate it. I’m realistic that the Kings are not like Tobias Harris isn’t really moving the needle much here in Sacramento. This is a play, this is a move that fits, I think, checks both boxes. it fits your short-term competitive mandate or expectation for next season while also giving yourself some more flexibility and some freedom financially a year beyond that. So that that’s something that I’d look at if I’m the Sacramento Kings. All right, those are two trades for two kind of upand cominging teams in the Eastern Conference. I got two kind of three more trades for you. The first one getting Demard Rosen to his hometown of LA. We’ll look at deals for both the Lakers and the Clippers, plus a trade to one last play for the Milwaukee Bucks to try and keep Yiannis offensive ko in Milwaukee. That’s all still coming here on the Lockton Kings podcast. Today’s episode of Locked on Kings is brought to you by Door Dash. NBA fans, you know what time it is. Playoff season means big performances and even bigger rewards. 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But Demar De Rozan to Los Angeles, it’ll always be a conversation. And it makes a hell of a lot of sense for Demar not just to want to join those two franchises who are constantly in win now mode but to also wrap up his career playing very very close to home. So I couldn’t pick just one LA team. So this trade three or third trade that I put together is actually there’s one trade for the Clippers and one trade for the Lakers. And I don’t know if you’re going to like either of these deals. I don’t know how much I like either of these deals, but these are the deals that I put together. Let’s start with the Lakers trade. The Lakers get Dear D Rozan to add to Luca Donic and LeBron James. And if you didn’t think that team played any defense before, well, now they’re not going to play even less or they’re going to play even less defense. So, the Kings trade Rosen to the Lakers and they get back Dorian Finny Smith and Gabe Vincent. You get some depth at the wing position. Dorian Finny Smith more on the the smaller side. So, I won’t really call him more he’s more of like a two three, but you get some depth at that position that you don’t necessarily have to start. I think Dorian Finny Smith helps Sacramento address some of their perimeter defensive issues. Although, I’m not thrilled or or overly moved by it. Gabe Vincent, some Stockton hometown pride coming back here. Gabe Vincent once played for the Stockton Kings, right? A great story. Never really worked out in LA after how fantastic he was for the Miami Heat. But hey, maybe a fresh start in his home. It only makes sense. Demard Rose is going to go home. Might as well bring Gabe Vincent back. But here’s the thing. Both these guys are expiring deals. So that’s two roster spots in the financial freedom that you free up at the end of the year. If it doesn’t work out, it’s essentially a season try out for both guys. Gabe Vincent gives you some kind of scoring guard depth. He can play off the ball. He can play on the ball a little bit as a backup guard, which we know the Kings desperately are in need of. I like taking the fly on Gabe Vincent a lot. I’m a big believer in Gabe Vincent. It did not work in LA. Oh well, a lot of players have come through Los Angeles and it hasn’t worked. Whether the lights were too bright or the circumstances were what they were, Gabe Vincent’s also dealt with some injuries, right? It just it hasn’t worked for him. But he’s not washed. It’s not over. He’s not terrible. Same thing with with uh uh Dorian Finny Smith. And this is a this is a player that I’m I’m very very intrigued in. A player that I think Kings fans have low-key had their eyes on for a while. Someone who comes in and just adds depth. Again, you’re losing the better player in the deal. Dear D Rozan is going to the Lakers. Neither of these players are better than Demar, but either or both of these players have the potential to fit better in what the Kings are doing going forward. And there is a circumstance or a situation where those two do fit the identity and the culture that the Kings are trying to build. I could see both of those guys being Doug Christie guys. Absolutely. Both those guys fit. And then you go into next summer and you find a way to retain both of them or one of them or let him walk, whatever. It gives Scott Perry some flexibility while g while getting off of Demar, giving the Kings some more depth and letting Demar go and ride out his final days in that whatever that would be in Los Angeles with the Lakers. So that’s the Lakers trade. Now the Clippers trade. Kings trade Demar De Rozan to the Clippers and in return get Norman Powell. Now initially when I was looking at this I was thinking why would the why would the Clippers do this? Norman Pal was really, really good. Norman Pal 21.8 points per game this past season. Shot 48% from the field, 41% from three-point range, 80% from the free throw line. Norman Pal was really, really good for the Clippers this season. Why would they do this? I don’t necessarily think they would. This was the only real trade that I saw that really made sense or could work out. So, it’s probably a low possibility trade. The only thing that gives me any kind of hope, I suppose, for this trade happening is that Powell is an expiring deal. And there’s a chance that the Clippers fear losing him for nothing in free agency because financially they’re kind of tied up, especially with Kawhai and James Harden and figuring all that out. So they get Demar De Rozan, they get the win now option of Kawhai Dear. Oh, although that dynamic of Kawawaii and Dear in LA, I just thought about this would be pretty interesting considering Kauaii took Dear spot in Toronto and then won a ring with Toronto. I don’t know if Dear holds a grudge against Kawhai for any reason. Anyway, Dear goes there. They have their old man big three there inside the Intuate Dome. And then the Clippers do get some sort of financial flexibility, too. Is like I said, the the final year of D Rozan’s deal is partially guaranteed. So Balmer can get off that and save a little bit of money and a little bit of cap space to go out and try and add more or do more. And the Kings get Norman Pal. I will say though in this situation, Norman Pal, you’re kind of in a similar spot to where you are now with Lavine, right? Like Pal’s not a point guard. You probably play Norman Pal at the three, which you can do, right? Right. The Clippers have been doing that to some extent with with Kawawaii and with even a 34 at times, although Pow would be a very undersized four. But he spaces the floor offensively. He gives you a scoring punch. I don’t know how much better he makes you overall and I don’t know how great the fit would be next to a Lavine, but he’s an expiring contract unlike Demar Rozan having at least some money on the books next season. So that’s the trade with the Clippers that I think makes the most sense. It probably has a very small likelihood of happening, but if the Clippers want Demar Rozan, that’s pretty much the route in my opinion for them to achieve that. So you got the Lakers trade Demar De Rozan for Dorian Finny Smith and Gabe Vincent or the Clippers trade of Demard Rozan for Norman Pal. I got one more deal for you. It’s Demar De Rozan to the Milwaukee Bucks. I’ll share that for you here in just a second. This episode of Locked on Kings is also brought to you by Amazon Fire TV. Did you know that Fire TV is also an Xbox? Turn any TV into your gaming and entertainment hub with Fire TV Stick 4K devices. No console is required. Just grab your pair of controllers, subscribe or sign into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with EA Play included, and you’re ready to play. Dive into hundreds of premium titles from EA Sports College football 25 to Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Avowed as easy as you stream your favorite shows. 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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription and compatible controller is required. Available on select devices, including Fire TV Stick 4K second gen, Fire TV Stick 4K Max first and second gen, and Fire TV Cube third gen. final trade for you that I came up with for Demard Rosen. I’m sure there are more trades out there. If you want to share a trade that you’ve come up with for Demard Roen, feel free send them to me George Sack on Twitter. Email me matteports@gmail.com. Leave your thoughts in the YouTube comment section down below. This final trade sending Demard Rosen to the Milwaukee Bucks. I will preface this by saying I do not like this deal. I don’t. But if you know the Sacramento Kings, you know this would make kind of sense. I won’t say sense necessarily on the basketball floor, but sense in terms of rumors and Kings history. Yeah, this guy makes sense. The Milwaukee Bucks bring in Demar De Rozan to pair with a hobbled Dame Lillard. Hopefully he can come back as soon as possible, but his injury is going to be keeping him out for a while. And a last ditch effort to appease Giannis Haten Takmpo to keep him in Milwaukee. Although I don’t know how much Demar Rosen would move the Neil. Dear goes to Milwaukee and the Kings get back Kyle Koozma. We did it. We got Kyle Kosma to Sacramento everybody. The Kings have only been trying that every summer for the last 20 years. Or so it feels like. Now to be fair, this is a different regime. I don’t know if Scott Perry or BJ Armstrong have any interest whatsoever in Kyle Kosma, but Kyle has been connected to this organization forever. And every summer we talk about how do you get Kyle Koozma on the Kings? Well, I did it. I provided it for you. Here you go. It works out where the Kings can trade up Demar Rosen for Kyle Kosma straight up. Koozma was terrible for the Milwaukee Bucks in the playoffs. Terrible. Did nothing. how like he was starting and everybody forgot he was on the team. Kyle Kosma was useless for Milwaukee. I’m not saying that’s all Kyle Kosma’s fault. He has a reputation of kind of being a player that puts up empty stats on a bad team and he certainly proved that right a lot with his time in Washington. Do I think Kyle Kosma would help the Sacramento Kings? No, not really. Does he fit their kind of short-term competitive window? I guess. Here’s the thing about Kyle Koosma, though. He’s got two years left on his contract. However, his contract is one of those depreciating contracts, which is valuable. He is going to be paid $22.4 million next season, but then his final season is 20.3 million. Now that is fully guaranteed, not partially guaranteed like the Marty Rosen. But in the final year of your deal, less money, easier to move that then it is a a standard contract. That being said, you might be going, Matt, what’s the point, why wouldn’t you just hold on to Demar De Rozan for one more season then and then just wave him and it costs you less instead of having to worry about trading Kyle Kusma? Yeah, you’re probably right. I didn’t say this was a good trade. I just said it was a potential trade. So, I’m not a fan of this deal. I don’t know if the Kings make this deal. I hope Scott Perry is not infatuated or interested and rumored to be connected to Kyle Kosma like the Sacramento Kings have been forever, but it’s a potential deal out there. Yeah, I don’t I don’t like that one. I don’t like that one as much. So, here are all the trades that I laid out for you. You pick your favorite for me. Trade number one, Kings to the Orlando Magic. They trade Demar Rosen for contavius Caldwell Pope and Corey Joseph. Trade number two, the Kings contact the Pistons. Trade Demard Rosen to the Pistons for Tobias Harris. Trade number three, Kings trade Demar Rosen for the Lakers for Dorian Finny Smith and Gabe Vincent. I actually kind of like that deal more than I think about it. Trade number four, Kings trade Rosen to the Los Angeles Clippers for Norman Powell. And finally, the Kings trade demar Rosen to the Bucks for Kyle Kosma. Any of those trades excite you? Do you like any of those? Leave me your feedback, your thoughts on any of those deals, plus any additional deals that you come up with that you could potentially see the Kings trading tomorrow for. Hit me up George Sack on Twitter. Email me matteports@gmail.com. Leave your thoughts in the YouTube comment section down below. Appreciate your support. Can’t wait to have you join me on the next episode of the Locked Onings podcast. Until then, my name is Matt George. You’ve been listening to Lock on Kings, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network.

Matt George shares four DeMar DeRozan trades the Sacramento Kings could realistically make this offseason.

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