Sacramento Kings: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason

Signing Richaun Holmes

With the Sacramento Kings renouncing the rights to both Willie Cauley-Stein and Kosta Koufos in July, it was clear the Kings needed to bring in a new group of bigs.

With Dewayne Dedmon aboard to start at the 5, the Kings added four-year veteran Richaun Holmes to play the backup role.

Holmes did what he did for the Phoenix Suns as a caddy to rookie Deandre Ayton last season, averaging 8.2 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.1 blocks in just 16.9 minutes per game while shooting 60.8 percent from the floor.

Holmes may be able to stretch his range, but he did not attempt a 3-pointer in 1,184 minutes for the Suns last season. However, in 57 games with the processing Philadelphia 76ers in 2016-17, Holmes shot a decent 35.1 percent on 1.4 attempts per game.

He followed that up, however, by going 4-for-31 (12.9 percent) from outside the arc in 2017-18 and he was just 8-for-44 (18.2 percent) from deep as a rookie in 2015-16.

Holmes signed a two-year, $9.74 million deal with the Kings and he brings a classic big man’s game to California’s capital.

Last season, he took 63.3 percent of his 365 shot attempts from the restricted area and converted 74.9 percent of those attempts — including 95 dunks. Less than 10 percent of his shots came from beyond 10 feet. He can also run the floor well.

Holmes knows what he can do and sticks to it, not a bad quality in a backup player.