Who in the Sacramento Kings organization REALLY wants Russell Westbrook?

Who in the Sacramento Kings organization REALLY wants Russell Westbrook?

Whitey, it almost was Inception, right? Remember in Inception when they have to put the idea in his head in order for, you know, whatever the plot was, he got to put this idea in his head. He’s got to think about it on his own. Yeah. That was called Inception. They through the dreams, all of that. It’s almost like Whitey did this to me yesterday because he knows what he knows. I can’t help myself. Planted the idea deep in. Exactly. And yesterday during cross talk, Whitey says to me, because I say, “Hey, I think that this is a Scott Perry initiative because Russell Westbrook seems very much like a Scott Perry guy.” And honestly, I didn’t think about really who else’s initiative it could be. Whitey Gleon essentially said it without saying it. When you look at some of the other moves that have been made, when you look at some of the other initiatives that we’ve seen in the past, the types of people that we’ve seen, the types of players that we’ve seen the Kings interested in, maybe this is a bit beyond Scott Perry. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. We will probably find that out at some point because everything tends to come out these days. But Whitey kind of threw it to me. Let my brain do its thing that it tends to do. Inception. And now, yeah, I’m kind of I’m kind of in the camp of maybe this is a VC thing. Is this the first VC thing of the Scott Perry initiative? Let’s think about it, right? It’s a big name. We know he likes big names. We know he kind of doesn’t care if certain things make sense from a roster perspective. Those are things that kind of fit with this Russell Westbrook conversation. Now, is that how it’s going to go? And are they going to bring him in regardless? As I mentioned uh in the first segment and this is a reason to essentially not believe that it is an owner initiative and it is a GM initiative because Carmichael Dave says yesterday in a a quote tweet from Etrain talk sports era 14year-old aspiring uh journalist who covers the NBA his name is Ethan. Go check him out on social media. He’s doing some great stuff. Ethan says, “If the Sacramento Kings don’t trade for Jonathan Kaminga, I don’t think they will sign Russell Westbrook. They’ve been connected to him for months, but signing Russ doesn’t make much sense given the current state of the Kings roster.” Dot dot dot. Carmichael Dave quote tweets it and says, “You’re almost certainly correct. While getting Kaminga doesn’t guarantee Russ, not having an outgoing guard all but eliminates Russ on the Kings.” So that got me off of the owner initiative inception thought process and I said, “Okay, that again sounds like a GM move, right? If we don’t get this, then we’re not going to be able to do it.” The other thing that it brought up to me is that and Tim McMahon is the latest to bring up Russell Westbrook to the Kings. The other thing that that kind of triggered in me is that this Kaminga thing might not necessarily be done. Now, I’m not gonna spend time on it because nothing has necessarily changed, right? We are going to talk about how the qualifying offer could help or hurt the Kings specifically in this upcoming season. So, we are going to have some conversations there. But the fact that the Westbrook thing, according to Dave, is so connected to the Kaminga thing, but the Westbrook thing is not going away. Kind of makes me feel like this Kaminga thing isn’t dead in the water yet. I don’t know how they would get it done. And each and every day, it sounds like the uh Kamingus camp is headed closer to signing the qualifying offer. And I would just assume now and and we’ll talk about it, but I would assume that he is going to he’s going to have a no trade clause in that situation so he can just say I’m saying no to everyone. I don’t want anybody to have any version of of control. I just want to go straight into unrestricted free agency, which is what Cam Thomas is looking to do as well. So, we’ll have that conversation. But it does make me wonder if this Kaminga thing is completely done because I would assume I I believe I know that Carmichael Dave is talking to basically as close as you can get in the Kings organization. All right. I do know that. So either the Tim McMahon’s of the world and those that are kind of in national media that may not be as fully locked in or as close to the situation as our local guys. Either they’re kind of a step behind us or this Kaminga thing is not necessarily dead dead in the water. That’s that’s what I take from Dave’s posts here because Russell Westbrook and by the way to the Westbrook fans that have been kind of trolling me on social media, we still don’t have another team. By the way, we still do not have another Russell Westbrook team. Even Tim McMahon’s story didn’t even have another team. It’s just Sacramento is the most likely. Not a one. And as we and if they’ve told that I’m assuming they’ve told that to Russell Westbrook, as of right now, there’s no Kaminga deal. So if Russell Westbrook had other options, now seems like about the time to lock in on some of those other options. So, I don’t think that he has very many or he really really wants to come home to Sacramento and is waiting until this Kaminga thing gets resolved just in case, which is I would say very less likely than the first option. Yeah. So, I don’t know why he would be waiting this much. And again, if it’s Devin Carter, that helps nothing. That helps absolutely nothing. if we’re operating in a world where they only have the same nineman rotation because I will say injuries happen. You know, that’s how Russell Westbrook made a lot of minutes down the stretch for the Denver Nuggets last year that may or may not have gotten Michael Malone fired. So, injuries do provide opportunity and you want to have a deep bench, but Russell Westbrook’s also got to be okay with going nine minutes a night or eight minutes a night at times if that’s going to happen. To that point though, do you think that Russell Westbrook really doesn’t want to leave California? Which we do know for Well, well, the the the Westbrook fans are saying he really doesn’t want to leave California. That’s right. That’s right. They basically said, “Well, Chris Paul’s old and he doesn’t want to leave California. Russell Westbrook’s old. He must not want to leave California either.” Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, that’s not No, let’s be careful. No one’s confirmed that. The Westbrook people are just yelling at you that he doesn’t want to leave California. The Westbrook people told me he turned down the Knicks, the Bucks, he turned down all these teams because he’s staying on the West Coast. Yes. Again, let’s not I know your brain, your inception brain is getting warped right now, but let’s not forget. Let’s come back to reality. That is not true. So with that being said now, right, if you’re Russell Westbrook, do you simply wait and see what happens throughout the season? And you know, for example, DeJonte Murray, right? Would the Pelicans if this if what happened last season happened this season and Russell Westbrook was just chilling, just waiting, which is kind of it’s kind of messed up. I’m just going to wait for somebody to get injured, but it is what it is. I’m just going to wait. DeJonte Murray pops his Achilles and the Pelicans say, “Fine, we’ll bring in Russell Westbrook.” And he would have played a lot of minutes for Russell Westbrook. But it was on a bad team. So, I’m just not really sure. Very similar to what I I don’t know what the Kings are actually attempting to do. I don’t really know what Russell Westbrook wants at this point in time. Yeah. I don’t think he’s going to do the Jay Crowder thing, right? Jay Crowder had I don’t either. Jay Crowder had gotten to a point in his career where he was good. Um, I mean, this is the problem that Melo ran into years ago. And I see so many similarities between the Melo at the end and the um, Russell Westbrook at the end. Remember Melo sat out an entire season and then did like a one-on-one with Stephen A. Smith on first take talking about like I’ve finally decided that I will be okay coming off the bench and playing a role like just one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen on television. But Melo was comfortable sitting out an entire season just to eventually get back in the league. I’m not saying Russell Westbrook would do that, but it’s right now it looks like it’s either the Sacramento Kings if they’re able to move Malik Monk or the Beijing Ducks where he can go play 28 minutes a night and you know sell out at the arena. I don’t think he would do that. Again, I it’s either that or don’t play at all and and you know go be in Hollywood and executive produce that uh Bair show on it. I don’t know. No, no, no. But I don’t think those are the only options, though. I think that and I it’s probably a little bit of Cam Newtonness, right, when the hey, we can’t have the backup QB have all this attention or we just we just don’t necessarily want to deal with it. But I think that Russell Westbrook to the point of his fans that won’t leave me alone, he probably does have options to just be a spot starter. Allah, a Chris Paul type. I just don’t know that he wants that. So, he could change his mind. And if you’re Russell Westbrook, would you rather do that or go to Beijing? I mean, it’s if he wants to if if his fans are right at all, he don’t want to go to the East Coast. He definitely don’t want to go to Beijing. That’s kind of my thought is like will he evolve at this point? I can’t remember what they were talking about with Ben Simmons, but it’s like every year a new crop of 20 to 40 rookies come into the league for those 350 spots. And it pushes some of them younger, but it pushes 20 to 40 of those people out of the league. And Westbrook appears to be on that bubble right now. So, what’s going to happen next year? Like, if this year he’s going to have to evolve, what’s going to happen next year when there’s a new batch of 20 to 40 rookies coming in? I mean, that’s is this going to be the end of Russell Westbrook’s career one way or another? And if so, does he want it to end play like we talked about 10 minute the thing that got the Westbrook people on you? Does he want to end it playing 15 minutes a night in Sacramento? Normally the worst way to end your career. What’s worse? Ending it like you said 15 minutes a game on being being a mentor in Sacramento. Mentor to who? Dennis Shruder’s 32. You’re you’re a mentor to Devin Carter. You’re a mentor to Devin Carter. Okay. Okay. You are a mentor to Devin Carter. Ke one whoever combo guard he likes the me the best. Or you go to Beijing. Like what is what’s the worst what is a worst way to end it? I and then the Kings you are you are playing you are a mentor on a 35 win team or Beijing. If you go to Beijing I will say a you’re probably going to make a lot of money and b if you play it right Stfan Marberry is still out here selling shoes in China. But I do feel like there is a level and we’re we’re kind of losing the plot here. But oh, let’s hope the Westbrook people don’t find this one. But I do No, no, no. I’m not saying this because I do feel like there is a level of hey, I never had to go to Beijing, right? I never had to I never had to go over I played in the NBA for my whole career. Now, I don’t know where Westbrook falls and some players don’t care. Obviously, you got the Dwight Howards of the world, but Carmemelllo Anthony, that brother didn’t want to come off the bench. He’s not going I Carmelo just started a pot. He was not going to go Melo Melo sat out a whole season and I think even part of another season because he didn’t want to go do the the China thing, which again, Westbrook, what do you want to do with your post playing career? That’s the question you should be asking yourself now. Like, let’s not He wants to dance. He wants to dance when uh when Kendrick is in town and and live in Los Angeles and and make Bair, which I always see he’s an executive producer for. I don’t So weird. And it’s a great it’s a great show, by the way. 916 3391 1140. Does the Westbrook interest worry you that ownership is a part of the basketball conversations? 916 339 1140. 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On today’s edition of The Allen Stiles Show, Allen and Kyle discuss who they believe is the person in the Kings’ front office pushing for the team to sign free agent point guard Russell Westbrook.

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