{"id":35626,"date":"2025-05-15T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/35626\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:08:14","slug":"kings-to-test-market-for-demar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/35626\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings To Test Market For DeMar\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sacramento Kings are expected to gauge the trade market for veteran DeMar DeRozan. NBA insider Jake Fischer reported the news on Marc Stein\u2019s The Stein Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DeRozan arrived in Sacramento last summer via a sign-and-trade and inked a three-year, $76 million deal. He averaged 22.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists in his first season with the Kings but the team finished 40-42 and failed to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Scott Perry has stepped in as Sacramento\u2019s new general manager and is looking to put his stamp on the team. He recently gave interim head coach Doug Christie a long-term extension to become the full-time head coach.<\/p>\n

DeRozan is at the tail end of his career and indicated after the Kings Play-In Tournament exit he wants to be on a playoff team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not tryna play another five, six years,\u201d DeRozan said<\/a>. \u201cYou only got so many years, that window closes quick. This was my 16th season, it\u2019s just crazy to think the next time I suit up a jersey and play in a game, it\u2019ll be my 17th year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think about it from that perspective, it\u2019s definitely tough because you don\u2019t get many opportunities and you don\u2019t wanna waste the opportunities you have left, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which Playoff Team Wants DeRozan?<\/p>\n

This is the big question as it pertains to DeRozan. He has long established himself as a terrific midrange scorer with a strong ability to get to the free-throw line. His playmaking chops have certainly seen an uptick in the second half of his career as well.<\/p>\n

What hasn\u2019t changed is his ability to defend and shoot 3-pointers. He remains a liability defensively and his stubbornness in not wanting to embrace the 3-point shot has put a clear ceiling on him as a player.<\/p>\n

A playoff team willing to acquire him will need to be strong enough in those areas so as to maximize his strengths.<\/p>\n

Another point to factor in is whether DeRozan is at a stage in his career where he\u2019s willing to embrace a bench role. That would certainly make the on-court theory of acquiring him more palatable. It would also bring up the question of whether it\u2019s worth paying $25 million per season for someone to play that role.<\/p>\n

Between these DeRozan rumblings and Perry\u2019s stated desire to acquire a point guard, as well as strong defenders at the wing position, it appears this could be a busy summer in Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings are expected to gauge the trade market for veteran DeMar DeRozan. NBA insider Jake Fischer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4500,6807,6811,6805,4056,6,67,6808,6806,6809,986,477,4055,6810,447],"class_list":{"0":"post-35626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-inkl","13":"tag-kings","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-app","17":"tag-news-headlines","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-sacramento","20":"tag-sacramento-kings","21":"tag-sacramentokings","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114514133466264518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","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=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}