Queta, though? Queta is the exact kind of player you don’t cut when you have him on your roster. It’s unlikely the Kings will regret cutting him even if McGee is a flop.
Noel is in a similar boat to McGee, a once-valued veteran who hasn’t found much traction in the league lately. In signing McGee they cut loose a pair of centers, Nerlens Noel and Neemias Queta. The Kings, a team that finished eight spots ahead of the Mavericks in the standings last season, decided McGee was the best use of a roster spot.
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They recently signed veteran center JaVale McGee, a player who couldn’t crack the rotation for the center-needy Dallas Mavericks last season, a player they wanted off of their team so badly they waived and stretched his remaining salary. Let’s circle back to the present, when the Sacramento Kings just committed a similar blunder. Joe played 1,400 minutes and hit 161 three-pointers, which would have tied James Harden for the most on the 76ers last season. Springer played just 89 minutes all season, averaging 2.6 points per game, hitting two of his five three-point attempts. That led them to waive Isaiah Joe, a sharpshooting wing whom the Thunder promptly scooped up.Ī Thunder team in need of shooting suddenly had a sniper who played a substantial rotation role for them, and the 76ers struggled to space the court around their stars all of last season. Last preseason the Philadelphia 76ers needed to trim their roster down to 15 players and elected to keep Jaden Springer, a young guard they still had hope would develop.
The Oklahoma City Thunder provide an excellent example. How the Sacramento Kings made a roster blunder Yet it does happen, and the Warriors may be the beneficiaries this time around. It’s so rare that many teams second-guess themselves, hesitating or talking themselves out of it. A player who clearly meets a need is suddenly served up on a silver platter.
There are other times, blessed times, when a shortcut is provided. The Golden State Warriors have the receipts from that process over the years. They need to comb through undrafted rookies, mine the G League, invite a host to training camp and churn through the final few roster spots during the season. Sometimes an NBA team has to scrape and claw to fill out their bench with a diverse set of players.
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