Over the weekend, veteran All-Star ahead DeMar DeRozan determined to affix the Sacramento Kings after spending the previous three seasons with the Chicago Bulls.
He took his time as a free agent and eventually settled on a three-year, $74 million provide from Sacramento that triggered a three-team sign-and-trade deal that included the San Antonio Spurs, with the Kings giving up Harrison Barnes and Chris Duarte.
In response to Shams Charania, the Miami Warmth have been the opposite workforce that DeRozan strongly thought-about earlier than selecting to maneuver from Chicago to the capital of California.
DeMar DeRozan’s choice got here right down to the Kings and the Warmth, however he selected to reside on the West Coast once more, per @ShamsCharania
The Lakers by no means made an actual provide.
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DeRozan is from the Los Angeles space, so this commerce will ship him again to his residence state, the place he shall be becoming a member of arguably probably the most gifted workforce he has ever performed for.
The Kings have already been a stacked workforce offensively over the previous couple of years with stars De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis, to not point out a number of succesful supplemental scorers.
However now, the Kings can have three legit scoring threats, all of whom are additionally gifted playmakers.
DeRozan, who will flip 35 years previous in a couple of month, averaged 24.0 factors and 5.3 assists per recreation this previous season, and he’s a grasp of the mid-range space, to not point out an enormous risk in crunch time.
The one massive minus with him is the truth that he isn’t an excellent 3-point shooter and that he makes an attempt only a few treys, so head coach Mike Brown should discover a strategy to conceal that deficiency.
But when he does, DeRozan ought to assist the Kings take a step ahead after they have been knocked out within the play-in spherical and missed the playoffs this previous season.
Sacramento completed third within the Western Convention in the course of the 2022-23 season, and maybe the Kings can lastly win their first playoff collection since 2004 this coming season.
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