re: SI’s latest mock, based on rumors and buzz, has Shaedon Sharpe falling to us at 8.

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No Im sick of reading your dumb fricking thoughts that nobody agrees with in all the Pelthreads

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I don't care. I love to spur conversations and talk about out of box concepts. My favorite part of the sport is team building and moving pieces around. I'm not going to let you kill my joy. I'll take the ridicule and abuse, if it generates traffic and people jump in. You want to get rid of people and kill conversations for some reason. I don't get it. You're never getting rid of me. So I guess suck it up or invent that block function. I wish you luck either way..

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Not true at all, just your dumb arse comments that not a single person here ever agrees with

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Every good story needs a villain. I'll happily play that role if needed.

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Getting rid of you would be spectacular but everyone here knows you will continue to be the token retard in the Pels chat.

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Why do you want to get rid of posters and traffic?

Once again, I don't care for the use of that word. There are intellectually limited people that read and post on here. We should welcome all points of views. Jeer and have fun, but that's just being cruel and crass. You use it way too casually..

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Shamit Dua @FearTheBrown 14m

I'm guessing Sharpe's camp turned down an invite to workout for this teams so the exec is mad salty

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I think Shamit makes a fair point. That's way too harsh of a review. It must have gotten personal with that anonymous exec.

Could be.

And I've kept saying...

This isn't about whether any of this is true. I've never said it was.

All I've said is there seems to just be this persistent, small little rumors and things about him that just keep trickling out.

It could all be BS, and unfounded. That was never the point.

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What if that anon exec was from the Pels?

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Then I hope we don't draft Sharpe at 8

I kind of got that vibe from what I've been reading. So I'm not surprised to see that said.

There is nothing wrong with the kid being raw and a high end prospect. I just look at a guy like Jalen Johnson and how he fell in the draft by playing those few games in college. Would he have been better off not playing in college at all?

Also, Johnson didn't contribute at all to the Hawks. But still has big upside. So if a team is willing to stash him for a year or two, it might pay off.

I said the same thing about Holmgren. Too raw. Even if Holmgren is the next Giannis. People here would lost their crap watching Holmgren having a similar couple of first seasons like Giannis had. There were flashes. People would be calling him a bust.

That is a luxury of drafting outside the top 10. Time to grow a player..

If nothing else it fits in with the Kings’ history of questionable competence and professionalism.

Possibly could have been Detroit, Indy, or Portland but none of them are in as dire straits as Sacramento, on multiple levels.

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What if that anon exec was from the Pels?

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Then I am more concerned than I was yesterday about our FO's maturity and growth over the last season in terms of the draft and building this team long-term.

Sharpe is simply following the advice of agents/advisors who have worlds of experience in these matters.

Maybe they miss the mark and Sharpe will pay by falling to 9 or 10 or something, but this feels like a Kings type meltdown. And frankly, maybe Sharpe would like to fall past the Kings, and who could blame him??

They have a history of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Even when they get things right (draft Cousins, Hassan Whiteside, Isiah Thomas, etc, make Mike Malone the coach), they manage to frick it up.

And to me the constant in all of it is the ownership

Kings could bring in Pat Riley as POBO, hire Nick Nurse as head coach, Ime Udoka, Taylor Jenkins, and Ron Adams as assistants, but when ownership is constantly overbearing and micromanaging everything and doing so terribly, you just can't build a sustainable winner and culture out of that.