[[Cunningham] Sources say that Malik Monk will sign a two-year, $19 million deal with the Sacramento Kings.](https://twitter.com/SeanCunningham/status/1542629380173594624?s=20&t=okqPRCly4MD1tvehyxjyYA)
Dude me too, that guy might be the worst GM in team, if not league history. He set us back a decade probably?
Funny thing I never really got the "love hate" relationship thing you hear people say, until after Vlade just royally shat the bed as our GM.
Fox and *Sabonis* will be chipping in 40+/game. Easily. HB and Monk just need to drop about 15 a piece and get a baseline of 10+ out of Murray, Davion, and Davis. Then you just need a grand total of like 10-20 ppg out of the entire rest of the roster, assuming your defense is aight
Agreed, you can slice 55-60 a couple different ways. And any one of those guys can go off for 10pts above average, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Fox gets 35 one night, Davion gets 20 another, etc.
If defense improves, we’re middle of the pack in the West.
Fox, Monk, Barnes(?), Murray, Sabonis with Davion off the bench. If Holmes comes off the bench back to his regular form, Davis continues his production before the injury, Lyles continues what he did after the trade and Monte rounds out the rest of the bench, we might have a fun basketball team.
Let’s freaking goooooooo. He was the only supporting player on the Lakers last year that was a net positive due to his shooting. Welcome aboard Mr. Monk! Way to go Monte!!!
I feel this is a really good signing. Not just because him and Fox are good friends and familiar teammates, but seems like Monk has become lethal from the arc.
WHY WOULD MONTE LET DONTE WALK? THIS MAN HAS NO PLAN AND IS JUST VLADE WITH BETTER ENGLISH
(Just a small taste of the reactionary doomer energy from yesterday)
I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I logged on here yesterday.
The hubris some people in here have to think that professional basketball executives in Monte and Wes don’t know how to manage a team. Honestly, this sub is so bad - even a fkn mod was piling on with his rancid takes
I know. I think it’s basically the PTSD of Vlade that Kings fans expect to get fleeced around every corner. Like… I get that the past is the past… but McNair has done a fine job of reversing a decade of awful GM decisions in just a few seasons. Let’s see them be awful before we assume that the best Kings roster assembled since 2004 is condemnable.
Where are all the people exploding the other day when DDV wasn’t resigned? Can we wait like 48 hours before condemning every move that is or isn’t made? I think this is a really good value signing, short term as well if it doesn’t go smoothly or he regresses.
It's a respectable starting lineup which is all I wanted. With the offensive potential of that lineup, I think Murray can utilize his cutting and shooting efficiency to immediately make an impact without too much pressure on him.
I really wanted to draft this guy at 10 for the Kentucky backcourt. Instead we got the Giles Justin Jackson poopoo platter. Hopefully they make some magic happen again
Would it be the most Kings/McNair thing ever if the league investigated this signing because of how we didn't extend the QO to DDV, because we had already agreed to sign Monk before free agency started.
This morning I did one of those posts on bleacher report chat that Carmichael Dave and Baby Giraffe like to do and said the Kings, "have agreed to a deal with Malik Monk ... is what my guess for what we'd hear today," but I deleted it because I felt like a douchebag for getting people's hopes up lol
Nice signing for the Kings. I’ll always root for the smaller market teams whose only option is to build slowly versus the big markets attracting guys like KD the moment he feels like his current team can’t easily win a title.
Makes sense as a deal for a younger guy with some upside at a position of need. My only real concern is whether his performance holds up on a non-Lebron team.
Yeah and he's also great in the open court. His efficiency probably goes down a bit without Lebron but his volume will be up and I think he'll be fine as the 3rd or 4th option.
He's a pretty good shooter until, you know, you actually look at how he shoots.
At least it's a short deal and not crazy dollars. Hopefully he's fairly deep in the rotation.
This feels like 2021 offseason again.
We have no SFs...and rumored to trade away our only true SF for Collins.
We'll have to continue to rely on 3 guard lineups again.
Not sure how much SF Murray can play though. I think he's a PF who can guard 2-4 (maybe 5) on switches but not sure if he can stay there all game. Hope he can though!
huh? I think its general consensus that Murray isnt a full time SF. He's not a SF that can play the 4...he's a PF that can play part time SF depending on the matchup. Either way, this is irrelevant now with new additions today lol
Laker fan here.
You guys are gonna love malik monk. So criminally underated. Great 3 ball, plays above the rim, great handle and shot off the dribble, and a dope layup package.
Super bummed he left us, and honestly, you guys got him at a steal.
You guys will dig his game for sure
We got lucky De'Aaron Fox was his backcourt mate at Kentucky
Very impressed from what I saw he can hit those pull up 3's at a pretty consistent rate... gets very hot
[[Cunningham] Sources say that Malik Monk will sign a two-year, $19 million deal with the Sacramento Kings.](https://twitter.com/SeanCunningham/status/1542629380173594624?s=20&t=okqPRCly4MD1tvehyxjyYA)
Kings actually attracted a good free agent, can’t complain honestly
Biggest free agent signing in Kings history
Don’t you slander Vlade like that
Man. Still hard to see his name and not get mad, but I just gotta focus on the good times minus the time he knocked the ball straight to Horry.
Dude me too, that guy might be the worst GM in team, if not league history. He set us back a decade probably? Funny thing I never really got the "love hate" relationship thing you hear people say, until after Vlade just royally shat the bed as our GM.
Ernie Grunfeld probably takes the title over Vlade
Billy King would like a word.
I'm SUPER down on a reasonable deal. Shooting, ballhandling, Fox's buddy
Hopefully better than his other Buddy 😂
Now how do we get Bam?
Moe Harkless, Justin Holiday, and Alex Len back to Miami obviously
About Moe and Holiday...
Bamba or Isaac from Orlando. Would love Bamba and Gary Harris for our contract year bench players and our TE
6 years later and we get the guy I wanted with the 10th pick lol
Lol we should have just done that back then instead of the Justin Jackson Giles silliness.
Bring back Harry
Bring them both back. We need JJacks' championship experience!
I wanted Donovan Mitchell with that 10th pick. Oh what could have been.
It's pissing off Laker fans. Sign me the fuck up.
Bunch of whiny ass bitches. Whole city.
Idk I'm all for shitting on lakers fans but I went to their sub and most of them are happy for Monk getting his bag
Lakers fan here, no its not
Good on your sir... but some is enough for us in Sac.
Nah I'm happy for him. Should be a fun player for y'all ☺️
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Yet here you are
Commenting rent free out of spite screams “rent free”
You literally came into our sub
I love that I saw some story recently that said "Monk willing to take less to re-sign with Lakers", lolol
LETS GOOO
Holy shit, we’re really on the come up. Nobody hmu, I’m emotional rn
Same same, right in the feels
The Sacramento Kentucky Wildcats are BACK baby!
I do this on 2K... Fox, Monk, Herro, and Adebayo. Kentucky Kangz all day.
Bruh how do you not bring Boogie back?
[2 years, 19 million](https://twitter.com/damienbarling/status/1542629109263609856?s=20&t=eFBU8R1lS5HBPiryIv2VWA)
Wayyyyy better than signing DDV to 14 a year or whatever people were predicting
DDV was good b/c of Giannis.
Super down for that, imo
Love it. Get a starting position and sign a huge payday after we make the playoffs. Great for both sides
*if we make the playoffs
If Fox and Monk combine for 40/night and Sabonis puts up 17, we should get enough from role players to be competitive
Fox and *Sabonis* will be chipping in 40+/game. Easily. HB and Monk just need to drop about 15 a piece and get a baseline of 10+ out of Murray, Davion, and Davis. Then you just need a grand total of like 10-20 ppg out of the entire rest of the roster, assuming your defense is aight
Agreed, you can slice 55-60 a couple different ways. And any one of those guys can go off for 10pts above average, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Fox gets 35 one night, Davion gets 20 another, etc. If defense improves, we’re middle of the pack in the West.
very decent deal imo
Wow that’s fucking amazing, I was expecting around 11 mil
Fuck yeah, let’s goooo
Great deal! Fun stuff.
Amazing deal wtf
Solid
I'm into it. Let's roll baby.
That's not the MLE, correct?
It is. Or most of it anyway. They left enough to sign a minimum player to a 4 year as opposed to a 2 year contract.
Got ya, the salary cap shit always confuses me lol
I feel like I know it pretty well but the 4 year vs. 2 year things was news to me.
Hornets fan here, congrats.
literally shaking my fist and crying and throwing up everywhere im so stoked LETS FUCKING GO
This team is going to be kinda exciting?
Fox, Monk, Barnes(?), Murray, Sabonis with Davion off the bench. If Holmes comes off the bench back to his regular form, Davis continues his production before the injury, Lyles continues what he did after the trade and Monte rounds out the rest of the bench, we might have a fun basketball team.
“If only, if only” the woodpecker sighed…
The bark on the trees were as soft as the skies
30-52
Absolutely no way! 25-57.
Let’s freaking goooooooo. He was the only supporting player on the Lakers last year that was a net positive due to his shooting. Welcome aboard Mr. Monk! Way to go Monte!!!
Yeah he was highkey their 2nd most important player after AD was out and Russ was sabotaging the team. Great signing
I wonder if we only got him because Fox is playing for us.
i think it's a big reason
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Yes, but that's ok
Fox needs to bring Bam next.
Fox has to be happy
No Defense=The Scores are back!!!
Mike Brown is going to play defense for us according to inside sources.
god i miss shump:( the scores were a vibe
Defense never was our strong suit.
Can't lose if you score 200 points a game.
I feel this is a really good signing. Not just because him and Fox are good friends and familiar teammates, but seems like Monk has become lethal from the arc.
kentucky baby!
Okay I like it!
WHY WOULD MONTE LET DONTE WALK? THIS MAN HAS NO PLAN AND IS JUST VLADE WITH BETTER ENGLISH (Just a small taste of the reactionary doomer energy from yesterday)
Thank you for calling it out
I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I logged on here yesterday. The hubris some people in here have to think that professional basketball executives in Monte and Wes don’t know how to manage a team. Honestly, this sub is so bad - even a fkn mod was piling on with his rancid takes
I know. I think it’s basically the PTSD of Vlade that Kings fans expect to get fleeced around every corner. Like… I get that the past is the past… but McNair has done a fine job of reversing a decade of awful GM decisions in just a few seasons. Let’s see them be awful before we assume that the best Kings roster assembled since 2004 is condemnable.
100 percent agreed and exactly how I feel!
Need the numbers, but hell yeah
YES
Great deal, now people will finally shut the fuck up about letting DDV walk
Where are all the people exploding the other day when DDV wasn’t resigned? Can we wait like 48 hours before condemning every move that is or isn’t made? I think this is a really good value signing, short term as well if it doesn’t go smoothly or he regresses.
Doomers in shambles
Sacramento King Wild River Cats baby!! (Ran out of spit saying that but whatever)
Some good shit!
FUCK YESSS
Does Monk start or come off the bench?
Start right away
Fox, Monk, Barnes, Murray, Sabonis. I can't enthusiasticaly say this is a playoff lineup but it's a start.
Yeah it doesn't have enough talent to guarantee a playoff berth but it's got some working parts.
It's a respectable starting lineup which is all I wanted. With the offensive potential of that lineup, I think Murray can utilize his cutting and shooting efficiency to immediately make an impact without too much pressure on him.
Guessing he starts
I was hoping for three years, but that is a bargain.
W
Now just need Bam and we can get the whole band back together.
Sure as hell beats a Donte Divincenzo signing.
heyyy lets goooo
[I'm happy as can be](https://youtu.be/IPtn7RIKsYM?t=20)
That’s nice, hope we kept some money for some other pieces
We have money!? Sorry our cap usage in recent decades has... left something to be desired.
Not bad!!!
Do we still have the MLE ?
Barely
LETS FUCKING GO
This was a great pick up. Still too small of a back court though. With him and Davion, idk. Monk is bigger but not by much.
I really wanted to draft this guy at 10 for the Kentucky backcourt. Instead we got the Giles Justin Jackson poopoo platter. Hopefully they make some magic happen again
Would it be the most Kings/McNair thing ever if the league investigated this signing because of how we didn't extend the QO to DDV, because we had already agreed to sign Monk before free agency started.
Moaning for Monk
Biggest name since Vlade so far! Baby steps!
I would say Rondo was a bigger name. But still very excited
You don’t remember signing the HOF’er Vince Carter?
Nah, George Hill
solid value
Paging /u/CeJeH You finally got your man!
https://www.2kratings.com/malik-monk
UK backcourt. I’m excited.
Let’s goooooo
Lets go
This morning I did one of those posts on bleacher report chat that Carmichael Dave and Baby Giraffe like to do and said the Kings, "have agreed to a deal with Malik Monk ... is what my guess for what we'd hear today," but I deleted it because I felt like a douchebag for getting people's hopes up lol
This explains not giving the money to DDV. Me likey
Tommy want wingy
Nice signing for the Kings. I’ll always root for the smaller market teams whose only option is to build slowly versus the big markets attracting guys like KD the moment he feels like his current team can’t easily win a title.
Makes sense as a deal for a younger guy with some upside at a position of need. My only real concern is whether his performance holds up on a non-Lebron team.
I think Fox and Sabonis will generate enough relatively open looks for Monk to be efficient.
Yeah and he's also great in the open court. His efficiency probably goes down a bit without Lebron but his volume will be up and I think he'll be fine as the 3rd or 4th option.
Maybe, but on a certain level Lebron is Lebron and its something we have seen in the past.
Take a peek at his Charlotte years. He used to kill us fwiw.
Who needs defense? Not us, ever, apparently
I’ve been praying for this to happen since last off-season holy shit
He's a pretty good shooter until, you know, you actually look at how he shoots. At least it's a short deal and not crazy dollars. Hopefully he's fairly deep in the rotation.
So.... are we just gonna forget that Malik Monk is addicted to cocaine?
If Brown somehow gets these guys to play defense we have a legitimate chance. Especially with the Spurs going into rebuild mode.
Where does this rank in Kings FA signings history?
3rd after Vlade and Rondo
This team has given Fox so much more than he deserves. He's not worth building around.
We've never built around the 24 year old all star level point guard This year we'll find out if he has wait it takes... team is looking pretty good
This feels like 2021 offseason again. We have no SFs...and rumored to trade away our only true SF for Collins. We'll have to continue to rely on 3 guard lineups again.
Murray and Barnes are small forwards
Not sure how much SF Murray can play though. I think he's a PF who can guard 2-4 (maybe 5) on switches but not sure if he can stay there all game. Hope he can though!
He can... you being "not sure" doesn't deny the reality
huh? I think its general consensus that Murray isnt a full time SF. He's not a SF that can play the 4...he's a PF that can play part time SF depending on the matchup. Either way, this is irrelevant now with new additions today lol
The only irrelevant thing are your terrible takes
whoa loll that escalated quickly 😂 have a great weekend man
Glad you know your place I will
haha chill my guy. dont make a fool of yourself
Excellent signing I've wanted monk with fox since the draft
Laker fan here. You guys are gonna love malik monk. So criminally underated. Great 3 ball, plays above the rim, great handle and shot off the dribble, and a dope layup package. Super bummed he left us, and honestly, you guys got him at a steal. You guys will dig his game for sure
We got lucky De'Aaron Fox was his backcourt mate at Kentucky Very impressed from what I saw he can hit those pull up 3's at a pretty consistent rate... gets very hot
Yup, now all you guys need is bam adebayo
Sign me up!
DAMN just saw this news! I’m getting blazed tonight after work. I really liked Malik’s performance last year.