Sacramento Kings: 2017-18 NBA season preview
2016-17 roster
Bogdan Bogdanovic, SG
Vince Carter, SF
Willie Cauley-Stein, C
De’Aaron Fox, PG
Harry Giles, PF/C
Buddy Hield, SG
George Hill, PG/SG
Justin Jackson, SF
Kosta Koufos, C
Skal Labissiere, PF
Frank Mason III, PG
Georgios Papagiannis, C
Zach Randolph, PF
Malachi Richardson, SG/SF
Garrett Temple, SG/SF
Offseason additions
Bogdan Bogdanovic (free agent, Serbia), Vince Carter (free agent, Memphis Grizzlies) De’Aaron Fox (No. 5 overall pick, Kentucky), Harry Giles (No. 20 overall pick via Portland Trail Blazers, Duke), George Hill (free agent, Utah Jazz), Justin Jackson (No. 15 overall pick via Portland Trail Blazers, North Carolina), Frank Mason III (No. 34 overall pick, Kansas), Zach Randolph (free agent, Memphis Grizzlies)
Offseason subtractions
Arron Afflalo (free agent, Orlando Magic), Darren Collison (free agent, Indiana Pacers), Tyreke Evans (free agent, Memphis Grizzlies), Langston Galloway (free agent, Detroit Pistons), Rudy Gay (free agent, San Antonio Spurs), Ty Lawson (free agent, China), Ben McLemore (free agent, Memphis Grizzlies), Anthony Tolliver (free agent, Detroit Pistons)
Quick Thoughts
As NBA.com’s John Schuhmann compiled in his yearly continuity rankings, no other team has lost a higher percentage of minutes played by outgoing players this summer than the Kings.
Now take into account the seven holdover players from last year’s roster, who combine for just 22 seasons of NBA experience prior to the upcoming year (and even painting it this way is a little more than generous).
Needless to say, this kind of teardown the Kings have decided to take on is truly not your run of the mill rebuild, strictly in terms of how a roster is constructed. The fact that the Kings could field a starting lineup as well as deploy a five-man bench unit comprised of players who are all 25 years old or younger pretty much backs that up.
It just goes to show that even the team the Kings were after the Cousins trade is still fairly unrecognizable compared to who they are heading into the season, their second-year/third-year players and holdover veterans not withstanding.