{"id":252603,"date":"2025-08-26T23:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/252603\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:50:33","slug":"sacramento-kings-exploring-russell-westbrook-addition-without-moving-malik-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/252603\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings exploring Russell Westbrook addition without moving Malik Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"710\">The Sacramento Kings have thought about trading guard Malik Monk this offseason, but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-the-latest-on-late-summer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Stein of The Stein Line,<\/a> no active discussions about a deal are happening at the moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"710\">That doesn\u2019t mean Monk is guaranteed to remain in Sacramento through the 2025\/26 season or even until opening night\u2014but his professionalism and team-first attitude have been praised inside the organization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Isaac-Bonga-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Bonga\" class=\"wp-image-167431 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"958\">The Kings are still interested in adding Russell Westbrook and at one point considered moving Monk to open a backcourt spot. However, Stein reports that the front office is also \u201cexploring alternative ways to make room for Westbrook without trading Monk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"1098\">If signed, the plan is for Westbrook to serve as the team\u2019s sixth man, coming off the bench behind new addition Dennis Schroder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1100\" data-end=\"1264\">Malik Monk is under contract for $18.8 million next season. He appeared in 65 games last year, starting 45, and averaged 17.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 5.6 assists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"2821\" data-end=\"3085\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Read more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/link\/betlabel_bonus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betlabel-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148540\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EUROLEAGUE ROSTERS 2025\/2026: All moves &amp; signings in one place (UPDATED DAILY)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"165\">EUROLEAGUE ROSTERS: The most prestigious European competition brings plenty of exciting transfers. Follow all the moves in one place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"353\">There will be no club basketball played during July and August, but that doesn\u2019t mean the clubs will be inactive.\u00a0Basketball Sphere\u00a0brings you all the updates from every\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/news\/euroleague\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EuroLeague<\/a>\u00a0team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"512\">In addition to players currently under contract, you can check at any moment who has left the team, whose contract has expired, and who might be on the move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"514\" data-end=\"657\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The new EuroLeague season will begin on September 30, and until then, we\u2019ll see what kind of rosters each team will enter the competition with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ukYVL_ca-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"EUROLEAGUE ROSTERS 2025\/2026\" class=\"wp-image-162721 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings have thought about trading guard Malik Monk this offseason, but according to Marc Stein of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-252603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115097752327572678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252603","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=252603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}