Rest Easy Not So Big Forwards
For anyone still hoping for a big splash at the small forward position, this is going to be disappointing. The small forwards of free agency have been raided and are now being signed by any and every contender for next year.
While the Kings have Andres Nocioni, Donte Greene and now Omri Casspi at the small forward position, quite a few fans wanted the Kings to either bring back Hedo Turkoglu or go after a young player with a lot of potential like Trevor Ariza. Well, I have bad news — all of the small forwards have been signed this off-season.
Okay, not ALL the small forwards have been signed. But all of the small forwards that are interesting or intriguing to the Kings rebuilding effort have been scooped up.
- Hedo Turkoglu agreed in principle to a contract with the Portland Trailblazers. The deal is believed to be worth around $50 million over five years.
- Trevor Ariza has agreed in principle to sign with the Houston Rockets to play alongside Tracy McGrady’s ghost and Shane Battier’s underratedness. The deal is supposed to be for the full mid-level exception (roughly five years, $33.5 million).
And for the few remaining fans who wanted Ron Artest to be brought back to Sacramento (see: Carmichael Dave and his radio show production team):
- Ron Artest has agreed to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers to play alongside his best friend and idol Kobe Bryant. The deal should be around five years and $33.5 million, just like the Ariza contract.
With all of the good small forwards gone, perhaps we should look to a bigger player for the addition.
We need to trade a future 2nd round pick to Utah for Kyrylo Fesenko.
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I share that mancrush with Aykis. I also am enamored with Oleksiy Pecherov. I don’t know if that helps the cause or not.
@Zach Harper
Gotta explain Pech. Other than that, I realize why you have a mancrush on Fesenko. I, too, was interested in acquiring him in 2007 on draft day.
@Zach Harper
Whats up with all these spam bots? Anyway to block em?
@Aykis16
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@Zach Harper
3SOB’s TrueHoop Blog makes people who comment have to prove they’re human through one of those “Type what you see” things. Maybe that’ll help.
Any chance Kings can make a trade for Boozer? The Jazz need to clear space if they want to resign Millsap and they were most likely gonna let Boozer walk had he opted out. If Kings can put together a trade, either around Nocioni or Thomas’ expiring contract, we can get a solid post player for a season. This way we fill seats, and have a chance at competing with the rest of the west. At the end of the 2010 season, we can let Boozer walk and use the money to go after a big time 2010 free agent. What do you think?
Zach, these porn bots gotta go senor.
Alright guys, it should ACTUALLY be fixed now. Time will tell. There is a plugin added to catch these and learn from the mistakes when it doesn’t catch them. If that doesn’t work, we’ll go to entering something when you comment.
Sorry for the annoyance.
@Mo
Mo, I will address this idea in a post for Monday.
@Zach Harper
I might be alone in this Zach, but you don’t have to apologize. Just thank you for fixing it.
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@pookeyguru
I can neither confirm or deny that I made those porn bots. By the way, can I interest you in refinancing your mortgage?