Sacramento Kings: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason

Overall

The Sacramento Kings haven’t always been a functional franchise in the 13 years since Rick Adelman, the winningest coach in franchise history, stepped down at the end of the 2005-06 season.

Luke Walton is the team’s 10th coach since Adelman resigned, with his immediate predecessor, Dave Joerger, becoming the only member of that group to complete three full seasons on the job.

Joerger was fired after going 98-148 in three seasons, coincidentally the very same record that got Walton pink-slipped by the Los Angeles Lakers after a three-year run with them.

But Divac made some very good additions this offseason, adding veteran leaders and playoff experience while clearly building around the crown jewels of the franchise, young emerging stars Marvin Bagley III and De’Aaron Fox.

While re-signing Harrison Barnes for four years, Divac and Barnes agreed to structure the deal in such a way that the cap impact will lessen over the term of the deal, giving Sacramento adequate wiggle room to talk extensions with Fox beginning next summer and Bagley the year after.

There is a lot to like about what the Kings got done this summer, an offseason where the whole may exceed the sum of the parts. None of the transactions by itself is an overwhelming, oh-my-god-look-what-Vlade-did slam dunk.

But taken together, Sacramento positioned itself in a vastly changed Western Conference to compete for that elusive playoff berth.

Given nearly every team in the NBA will be spending training camp and the early part of the season wearing “Hello! My name is … ” stickers because of all the personnel turnover, how quickly the Kings — and everyone else — come together may be the key to how far they ultimately go in 2019-20.

Grade: A-