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Three-time NBA All-Star center Domantas Sabonis reportedly wants to leave the Sacramento Kings, with ESPN's Tim MacMahon describing the situation between the big man and the franchise as increasingly difficult. "Quite frankly, Sabonis wants out of there, and if they can move him, they would," MacMahon said on The Hoop Collective. "So he's not happy. It's a bad situation."
According to Windhorst, any trade would still have to "make sense" for Sacramento. The Lithuanian center changed representation during the offseason and hired Aaron Mintz of CAA. That move previously fueled speculation about his future. Sabonis currently has two guaranteed seasons remaining on his contract, worth approximately $94 million combined.
On HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours, Bam Adebayo showed up in 6.2% of all trades built. Among those, he was most often sent to Sacramento (14.5%), Cleveland (9.2%), and Denver (9.2%), and the return pieces that came up most often were Evan Mobley (9.2%), Zach LaVine (9.2%), and Jaren Jackson Jr (7.9%).
It didn’t take long for the rumblings about Sacramento coach Doug Christie to start. Even before Thursday night’s game in New Orleans, a 132-120 loss against the previously 0-4 Pelicans that dropped the Kings to 0-5, there was a growing sense around the league that Christie might already be on the hot seat. Especially if the Kings didn’t find a way to win on this four-game road trip that still includes games against Memphis on Saturday and Dallas on Monday. Yet according to a team source with knowledge of the Kings’ plans, that’s not the case. Per the source, who was granted anonymity because these matters aren’t typically discussed publicly, there is an internal belief that Christie deserves a fair chance to be evaluated with a team that is much healthier than this current Kings lot.
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Before we get into the importance of Toumani Camara, the heroics of Robert Williams III, the unstoppable force that is Deni Avdija and the grit-and-grind of Sidy Cissoko, please consider this scene from the Trail Blazers’ 128-120 victory over Sacramento on Friday night. Over the final two minutes of a close, knock-em-down, drag-it-out game, Blazers coach Micah Nori did what few — if any — coaches have dared to do in the past decade: He substituted Damian Lillard and Ja Morant out of the game in favor of players who were better defenders. “Neither one of us, you know, are probably used to that,” Lillard told The Athletic.
Shams Charania: Guard Sean Pedulla has agreed on a two-way NBA contract with the Sacramento Kings, his agent George S. Langberg of @GSLSportsGroup tells ESPN. Pedulla was the 2025-26 G League Rookie of the Year.
Jake Fischer: Sean Pedulla is also in the mix for Sacramento’s open two-way spot, along with Dalton Knecht, as we reported on today’s @BleacherReport stream. Sounds like Micah Peavy, Knecht and Pedulla are under consideration for several overlapping teams, including Toronto for all three.
Marc Stein: The Grizzlies are actively trying to find a new home via trade for Walter Clayton Jr. before today's 5 PM ET roster cutdown deadline, league sources tell @JakeLFischer and me, with Sacramento emerging as a possible destination.
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Anthony Slater: Kings center Dylan Cardwell is out at least two weeks with a left calf strain. Frontcourt depth will be thin in Sacramento to open the regular season after Maxime Raynaud's recent knee injury.
Sean Highkin: Damian Lillard and Robert Williams are resting today and will play tomorrow. Micah Nori says Jrue Holiday will start alongside Ja Morant today, and tomorrow in Sacramento likely Dame and Scoot Henderson start together with Ja and Jrue coming off the bench.
Days after working out for Perry, Simmons went to Sacramento, where he worked out in front of Kings head coach Doug Christie and other staff members. The Kings signed Simmons to a one-year, $3.5 million contract that was announced Sept. 8. Sacramento was a Western Conference-worst 22-60 last season, but Simmons told E:60 he was excited to join the franchise in part because “they wanted me.” “When you have done something your whole life and so you’re used to it, that is a big part of who I am,” Simmons said. “I know what I am without it [basketball] now. But I also know it’s a huge part of my life now. I’m just being grateful for being able to compete and play. And also knowing when this is done I have [another] part of my life, which is cool.”
DeMarcus Cousins speaks on the Kings hot-mic incident. Says a reporter in Sacramento lifted his shirt to check his physique when he was a 19-year-old rookie. “She had this infatuation about my body”
