Malik Monk’s Future + Kings Have a New #5 | Bleav In Kings #sacramentokings #malikmonk #scottperry

Malik Monk’s Future + Kings Have a New #5 | Bleav In Kings #sacramentokings #malikmonk #scottperry

Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back to the Believe in Kings podcast. I’m your host, Mark Haynes, and we got a lot to talk about on this episode. We going to talk about the Malik Monk situation, what Scott Perry’s doing in free agency, Mike Brown to the New York Knicks, Nick Clifford, the 24th pick in the draft, just arrived in Sacramento. that and more on this episode of Believe in Kings. Now, you’re going to have to bear with me this episode. I’m actually out on the golf course right now, so you’re going to hear some things. You might hear a plane in the background. You may hear a car go by or golf cart or something, but I had to get on here real quick and talk to my people. Now, what I what I want y’all to do is let me know, you know, on one of my social media platforms, Mark Haynes NBA, on my YouTube page. Anyway, I want to know what y’all thoughts are. I’ve been looking at comments and things especially regarding the Malik Monk situation and his name popping up in trade rumors and you know people saying he don’t have any trade value which you know I find you know not true you know from thing from people that I’ve spoken with or whatever I don’t it doesn’t look like that’s the case but you know drop some comments on on my pages and stuff or whatever and you know whether it’s Twitter or X, excuse me, if it’s X threads, whatever, you know, let me know y’all thoughts or whatever. But from the people I’ve talked to and my sources or whatever, it wasn’t it’s not that Malik Monk is like, “Oh, they’re trying to get rid of Malik Monk.” But when you look at the situation, like, who else are you going to trade? you know who else has it ain’t value as in the player but you know contracts matter and you know numbers all that matters the easiest most team friendly deal is the Malik Monk deal you know so is if if you guys want if we’re looking at Scott Perry and what he’s trying to do in Sacramento what Monty McNair wasn’t able to do in Sacramento you know he’s he said it from the jump, you know, he’s trying to build, you know, a team that that’s that’s built on sustainable winning. Like you want to win, you know, year after year, you know, and eventually compete for a championship. Now, I don’t think anybody believes the Sacramento Kings are championship competitors this coming season, but then there’s the question of, well, are we tanking or are they, you know, what’s going on or whatever. And you look at some of the moves that Scott is making or whatever, you know, Dennis Schroeder, you know, um Dario Sarge, um Drew, uh Eub Ebanks is supposed to um you know, is intending on signing as soon as he clears waiver waiverss. These are all, you know, positions that the Sacramento Kings needed help in. You know, now are they the best players? Are they the best options out there or whatever? Probably not. But, you know, again, money talks. So, when you go back to, you know, the Dennis Schroeder deal and how Malik Monk popped up in the signing trade or whatever and all that stuff, you know, how I how I see it, I think it was more of, you know, just negotiation tactics or whatever. Like Scott Perry’s job is to make the Sacramento Kings organization a better team. You know, that’s that’s what he’s supposed to do. That’s his job. And we all love Malik Monk. So other people would love Malik Monk. Other teams would love to have Malik Monk. And you look at that Detroit situation with what they got going on. You already, you know, they got Dennis Schroeder. He’s he’s The Dennis Schroeder deal, from my understanding, the Dennis Schroeder deal was an independent transaction. It wasn’t it it wasn’t going in saying we want to trade, you know, we want to do a signed trade with Malik for Dennis and it didn’t, you know, it didn’t happen or whatever. But if it was to happen, you know, I think it’s still a couple of days until it’s official. But if it was to happen, I’d imagine that Sacramento is the aside in this deal because Detroit, they could they could lose, you know, not only with with losing, you know, not getting Schroeder um and not getting anybody in return. You also would be you’re also losing Malik Beasley who’s going through the, you know, the the federal investigation. So it kind of makes Sacramento the aside where you could say, you know, as long as it makes sense contractually. Sacramento could throw anybody name in there who fits that, you know, that that pay range that that we’re looking at, you know, that 18 million range or whatever. You could throw anybody in there and say, “Look, either you, you know, give us, you know, do a signing trade and maybe give, you know, get Schroeder and you get, let’s say, let’s leave it at Malik or whatever. You take you to take Malik. You can have Malik cuz you’re going to need a shooting guard. You going to need a guard, but also give us Schroeder and some picks. If you got Schroeder and some and some picks, you get some first rounds from Detroit because the one thing Detroit doesn’t want to do. If you look at what’s going on here in Sacramento, you don’t want to it it sucks to take steps forward and then have to take steps back immediately. And that’s what the Sacramento Kings did with the, you know, the first the Beam team, the original team, you know, ended up being the number three seed in the West or whatever. And, you know, everything looks uphill. And then this the next season it’s a drop. You know, you don’t even make the playin or you make the play in, you eliminate them. Excuse me. Then the next season you you win 40 games and don’t even make the play in. So it’s you’re going backwards. You have to make moves to go forward. Detroit made the playoffs. They put together a great team last season that made the playoffs. They were competitive. They gave K. Cunningham some some players that helped him turn into a all-star for the first time and then you get there once and you lose Beasley, you lose other players and now you’re out. That’s what you don’t want to do. You want to try to keep that momentum going in your organization and show guys you’re going in the right direction. If you lose, you know, Schroeder, you lose Beasley, and you get nothing in return, that Detroit team is not going to be as good. So, I feel like this was like a this like a Floyd Mayweather tactic, you know? It’s like, hey, I’m the aside. You know, either you take this deal, yeah, we’re asking for this and that, whether, you know, whatever the case may be. I’m just throwing out my scenario of what I would do, you know, if I was Scott Perry. You know, I would say, “Hey, sure. I’ll help you out by giving you Malik. Your team will stay relevant because Malik is a really really good player in this NBA and in the NBA and he will help your team stay where where they where they got last year or get or even be better. I actually think he’ll be I think he’ll be a better fit over there.” But in return, you got to help us. And with helping us, yeah, I want I want Schroeder and I want some picks. I think if that happened, I think all of all of Sacramento I think Sacramento fans are very happy. But it just sounds and looks very very ugly right now because it’s like ah it looks like he’s shop he’s shopping them around. It looks like the media is saying, it ain’t looking like it. The media is saying Bleak Monk has no value. Nobody wants him. That’s that’s not true. There’s there’s teams out there that won’t. But right now, you know, we we see this every year. Free agency, everybody has their, you know, first, second, third options or whatever. You know that is if if Malik is going anywhere, it will be to a team that wants him. Maybe that’s not right now. Maybe it’s down the road. Maybe he stays in Sacramento. Who knows? But I think that’s what’s going on from what I’m what I’m told and the and the sources that I talked to that’s with close to the organization and throughout the league. That’s more of the story. It’s not that they’re trying to shop Malik Monk around, but it’s more of a conversation in order to try to make this team cuz end of the day, like I said, nobody believes that this team is a championship contending team, right? I don’t think nobody believes that. However, if you can figure out a way to make a move to change that or to speed up that trajectory of, you know, getting there, of course you do it. And as a fan, of course, you would want Scott Perry to pull that trigger. And I think, again, I think that the team is in good hands. I think Scott Perry knows what he’s doing. I think Scott Perry has a lot of work to do. you know, he has a lot of cleaning up. Monty McNair um you know, left left the organization in in a very strange predicament to say the least, but um you know, it’s going to take work and sometimes with you know, sometimes before getting better, things might get worse a little bit. It’s not I don’t I don’t think tanking is the right thing, but you know, when you if you ever we all wash dishes. When you wash the dishes, man, you know, the sink is all dirty. You got food particles flying, you know, all over the floating around in the water and stuff. And you got to, you know, put you put the dirty Well, how I do it, I don’t know how y’all do it, but I put all the dirty dishes on one side of the sink. If you got the dual sink, that is put the dirty dishes over there. Now, it’s real messed up cuz everything dirty is on one side. I use the clean side to rinse everything off or whatever. Get it get it looking decent. That’s it. It’s not clean yet. We not done. Some of y’all might be done after just rinsing it. That’s that that’s just nasty. So, I’m I’m If you doing that, if you just rinsing and you call it clean, dry it off. That I’m going to tell you how to teach you how to wash dishes. So, you put the dirty dishes on one side. Single one by one, you grab them, you rinse them off on the clean side. After rinsing them off, you put them in the dishwasher. That’s when you run the cycle or whatever. You don’t you don’t just go from dirty to dishwasher and let the dishwasher do all the work. That’s not how you do it. Rinse it off first, then put it in the dishwasher to get it clean. Scott Perry is doing that with the Sacramento Kings. Piece by piece, you know, one day at a time. He’s grabbing the dirty dishes that Monty McNair left behind. He’s rinsing things off and he want he’s eventually putting them in the dishwasher. Right now, he’s just getting all the dirty dishes together, you know, and that’s, you know, figuring out what the plan is. Once you figure out the plan with the team and where, you know, where you think the team can go, that’s the rinsing the dishes off. If if everything works out and you make it back to the playoffs and you start thinking you got pieces to actually win, that’s putting it in the dishwasher and letting it clean up. That’s where you want to get. And it’s a process and you know it’s it’s cliche, you know, Philadelphia started it, but you got to trust the process and that’s really what it is or whatever. So, I think so far this summer, um, I think it’s been a good summer for the Sacramento Kings. Has it been the best? No. But I think it’s been good. You got a firstrounder when you wasn’t expecting to get a firstrounder. That was a main goal uh coming in for Scott, you know, in in that situation. And you got Neat Clifford at the 24th pick. And he just arrived today. I mean, not today. Excuse me, my bad. He arrived last last night. Yesterday, he was greeted by fans and a few media members. Um, he’ll have his press conference tomorrow on the 3rd. Yeah, today is the 2nd. He’ll have his press conference on the 3. And he’s another guy that fits a position that the Kings have lacked, you know, the last few years. They’ve been undized. He’s a six 6’6 where 6’5 66 200 lb guard shooting guard who could play the small forward or whatever. He can he can really play basketball. He’s an older player. Like I talked about it uh I don’t remember which pod. I got like three or four pods so forgive me but I talked about it recently or whatever. Like I like I like co like seasoned college players and that’s what he is. You know, he comes in I think 23 years old or whatever he’s is that he comes in with maturity. He comes in with an understanding of how to play team basketball. Are we do you expect him to come in and average 20? Absolutely not. You got Zack Lavine and Demar D Rozan for that. You got Malik Monk for that. You got Keegan Murray who we hope to get closer to that range. But you need guys that can just play basketball. What Nick Clifford in year one? What would be a win in my opinion if he comes in and do everything that the Kings thought Chris Dewarte was going to do? You know, you come in, you play defense, you come in, you knock down open shots, you come in, you make plays here and there, but in the system, in the, you know, be a great rotation guy, guy you could depend on if if Lavine or D Rozan is in foul trouble or if Lavine and D Rozan is hurt. And I think I think Nick Clifford has all those tools, you know, to do that. and being, like I said, a seasoned college player, you know, 23-year-old, uh, not a young rookie, he he you don’t have to wait on his body to develop like you have to do a lot of young guys. Like, he’s he’s a he’s a guy that that can play now, you know, and as far as his future, you know, we’ll have to wait and see and figure out, you know, what he turns into. But I’ll say that I am very very excited. I thought he I thought he was a great pick because if you looked at his co you looked at him in college like he’s a dog. He’s a dog. You know, he can play basketball. He’s he can you know I I really like him. I really like him. We’ll see what what uh I haven’t checked out, you know, much of the I haven’t seen much of the other rookies just throughout the league, but I’m very very excited to see Clifford in front of the the rest of the field when summer league starts on on the 10th. It is July 10th, so I can say that on the 10th. But um yeah, man. And I just wanted to Oh, Mike Brown, Mike Brown, you know, news has surfaced that, you know, after I think it was two interviews that they said he went through uh with the New York Knicks, who had one of the weirdest coaches searches ever. You know, I I was waiting for them to, you know, request to the Sacramento Observer, the newspaper that I work for. I was I was waiting for them to request to to interview me because they was they was asking to interview anybody that had a job and they ended up getting a guy who just lost his job. He was just here in in Sacramento last season. Um who was fired during by you know Monty McNair. That’s a Monty McNair. Um, it was a awkward and ugly breakup, but not even a year later, looks like Mike Brown’s going to get another opportunity. And he’s getting an opportunity with a team that was very close to being in in the NBA Finals. One series away from being in the NBA finals. And obviously they feel like Tom Tibido just didn’t have what it takes to get over the hump. And maybe Mike Brown is that guy. So, you know, shout out to Mike Brown. It looked like he got a he found himself in a good situation. Um that’s a team that that fits fits his style of coaching. And um it’s going to be interesting seeing them seeing them when uh when the Knicks and the and the Kings match up against each other next season. But um I’m sure it’ll be a lot of dialogue and talk although you know Monty McNair and and and others are are gone. You know it’s a different organization but you know VC sits courtside. So, just to see, you know, see the interactions between, you know, some of the people, some of the players or whatever, whatnot. But that’s neither here nor there. We’ll we’ll talk about that when that time comes. I just wanted to jump on with you guys to touch on those subjects, touch on the summer. And like I said, jump in my comments on whatever page you I think I already posted some questions about how you feel. Let me know how you feel about Dennis Schroeder. I didn’t say much about Schroeder, but I will say I think he’s a good player. I think he’s a good fit for the team. Uh, does he put some put put the Kings over the hump? No, I don’t think that. But it’s a piece that puts you on in the you’re going I think you’re going in the right direction, you know, with getting, you know, some of the best available, you know, like I said, could you have done better? Maybe. But I do think when you when you’re hearing this Malik Monk stuff and you’re hearing about Trees, that tells me that the Sacramento Kings, Scott Perry in particular, is doing and open to to doing whatever it takes to get the team on the right on, you know, back in the right direction. So, you know, not all change is good, but in order to get to the good side, this team, we all know, has to make changes. Now, will they work? We just got to wait and see. But that’s all I just wanted to jump on here real quick. Click quickly. God, I could not get that out. It’s hot, you know, and I’m about to get back to um you know, I’m not golfing. I was go I was going to lie. I was going to be like, “But get back to golfing. I’m watching I’m watching people golf. I’m just out here, you know. I I can’t I can’t golf. I’m interested in learning.” And uh the the you know, golf clothes and stuff is fly. You know, you might see me summer league walking around Vegas in my golf attire. Even though I can’t golf at all, I do Top Golf. And the best thing I’m probably at at Topgolf is, you know, it ain’t the hitting the hitting the balls. It’s uh that’s that’s crazy right there. But it ain’t hitting the golf balls. It’s uh having having a good time and having some drinks. So if you see me at Top Topgolf, that’s what you will see me doing. But anyways, this is the Believe in Kings podcast. I’m your host, Mark Haynes. Follow me at Mark Haynes NBA at on all platforms. Make sure you you go to my the closers and check it. Follow follow follow what we doing over there. Got a whole lot of coverage. I will be back very very soon with another episode of Believe in Kings Pod. But until then, I’m signing out. So, peace.

In this episode of Bleav in Kings, Mark Haynes breaks down the latest on Malik Monk’s future in Sacramento — is he staying or heading elsewhere? Plus, he talks about the Kings’ newest addition, rookie Nique Clifford, who’s set to wear No. 5 this upcoming season. What does his arrival mean for the roster, and the job Scott Perry, the GM, has done so far? Tune in for all that and more!

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