{"id":157355,"date":"2025-07-09T03:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/157355\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:35:13","slug":"rival-teams-befuddled-by-kings-strategy-after-deaaron-fox-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/157355\/","title":{"rendered":"Rival Teams ‘Befuddled’ by Kings\u2019 Strategy After De\u2019Aaron Fox Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rival Teams ‘Befuddled’ by Kings\u2019 Strategy After De\u2019Aaron Fox Trade<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento Kings entered the offseason looking to upgrade their roster and compete for a playoff spot in the Western Conference next season.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the Kings finished ninth in the West last season and failed to make the playoffs after being eliminated in the Play-In Tournament by the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n

This came after the franchise made some major decisions during the season as they fired head coach Mike Brown in December and then traded star point guard De\u2019Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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Feb 10, 2025; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) shoots a free throw during the third quarter against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena.\u00a9 Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Despite trading Fox last season, it appears that the Kings are all-in on competing for a playoff spot next season, which is a surprise to many around the NBA according to a recent report.<\/p>\n

According to Forbes\u2019 Evan Sidery, rial teams are befuddled by Sacramento\u2019s strategy to stay in win-now mode after trading Fox last season.<\/p>\n

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It is clear that many teams around the NBA believed that the Kings would begin a rebuild this offseason after trading Fox, especially with Domantas Sabonis, Malik Monk and DeMar DeRozan in trade rumors.<\/p>\n

Despite this, it appears as though the Kings are set on competing for a playoff spot next season, especially after they agreed to a sign-and-trade deal with the Detroit Pistons to sign Dennis Schroder in free agency to fill their vacancy at the point guard position.<\/p>\n

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Sacramento Kings stars Domantas Sabonis and DeMar DeRozan\u00a9 Scott Wachter-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

While the Kings may be looking to make a push for the playoffs next season, it is still possible that they could make more moves this summer with Monk and DeRozan continuing to be thrown around in trade rumors.<\/p>\n

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If that ends up not happening, the Kings will enter next season with a projected starting lineup of Schroder, Zach LaVine, DeRozan, Keegan Murray and Sabonis, which could help them compete for a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

While this is a surprising move by Sacramento, if things do not work out next season they could end up beginning a rebuild next summer.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 9, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rival Teams ‘Befuddled’ by Kings\u2019 Strategy After De\u2019Aaron Fox Trade originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Sacramento Kings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4459,149,1314,3213,1024,188,4672,3210,4056,1267,6,986,477,4055,474,3207,468,574,3212],"class_list":{"0":"post-157355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-coach-mike-brown","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-deaaron-fox","12":"tag-demar-derozan","13":"tag-dennis-schroder","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-domantas-sabonis","16":"tag-keegan-murray","17":"tag-kings","18":"tag-malik-monk","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-sacramento","21":"tag-sacramento-kings","22":"tag-sacramentokings","23":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","24":"tag-the-kings","25":"tag-washington-wizards","26":"tag-western-conference","27":"tag-zach-lavine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114821184359852289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}