Inside the Kings Draft Room w/ Scott Perry

Inside the Kings Draft Room w/ Scott Perry

When you approach the NBA draft, there’s a lot of moving parts. You’re on the phone constantly with teams, agents, you also are having constant meetings with your front office and scouting staffs to talk about players, ranked players, how do they best fit uh our organization? And then you’re working out the prospects. You’re interviewing players. You’re bringing them out when you bring them to Sacramento. You’re having dinner with them. You’re learning about them as people. And so then you’re taking all of that information and you’re trying to organize it and structure it in a way that come draft night, you can make the most effective, efficient decision of which player you’re going to get. When you go see a prospect practice, work out, or playing a game, I look for the interactions that he has with his teammates and his coaches. Those are what some people may deem as small things, but they’re big things. Basketball is not an individual game. It’s a team game. And also, what I’m looking for with guys is do they do the little things? The little things lead to winning and sacrifice. and they’re willing to do things above and beyond themselves and for the betterment of the team. The more guys you can have on your team that embrace that, that play towards that, I think you have a better chance of having success. Good. Two guys on three. On three. One, two, three. On three. 1 2 3. It is draft day. The Sacramento Kings, as it stands right now, do not have a draft pick. I’ll ask you, do you think the Sacramento Kings make a draft pick tonight? I do. Everything I’m hearing from sources around the league today tell me that there are multiple first round picks available in the 20s. Welcome to the 2025 NBA drafts. From big cities to small towns, basketball is played and followed everywhere. You go into a draft knowing that you may be strong in some areas and not as strong in others. And what I’ve always done is try to tear the talent by just the pure talent. Who are the best players regardless of position? Nick Clifford from Colorado State University and OKC trading out of that spot sending Nick Clifford to the Kings. We selected a young man tonight by the name of Anique Clifford from Colorado State. Obviously, we were able to uh take advantage and move into this draft into the first round. We came into the night with not having a first round pick. We feel like we uh were fortunate to get there and get him. Going into this draft, we were going to be prudent and opportunistic. He was a guy that we thought if we could get in to the first round, he was he was someone that we really liked a lot. We feel like he’s going to fit the identity of what we’re trying to establish here. So, we’re extremely happy about it. Sacramento came select Maxim Reno from Paris, France, and Stanford University. This was a group effort. I thank you all for that. That was that was big. Sometime it pays to be patient. You know, sit there. You know what I mean? The draft is obviously a time to find the best fit and the best talent for your organization because the more talent you can add to your roster, the better chance you have of uh building a successful team. It’s great to see everybody here again this morning and so excited for all of you to be here to welcome the newest members of the Sacramento Kings family, Mr. Nick Clifford and Mr. Max Reol. You love to see these young guys come in with a level of maturity. They’re here to improve as an individual to help the team. Clifford eye candy. We’re here to establish an identity of what it means to be a Sacramento king. That entails six things. Competitive, tough, team oriented, professional, accountable, disciplined. These two young men have exhibited that not only in their play throughout their careers in college basketball, but in how they’ve conducted themselves as young men off of it. Rain. No. Why not led high four for four from the field? We’re looking for those values and players with obviously a certain skill set. We’re looking for people that are going to enhance this identity, who embrace it, and want to represent what Kings basketball is all about moving forward.

Take a deep dive into GM Scott Perry’s draft process where him and his newly installed front office pick Nique Clifford (24th overall) and Maxime Raynaud (42nd Overall)

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