Sacramento Kings: Ranking the last 10 first round picks

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6. Nik Stauskas (2014)

Moving back a little further in time, the Kings selecting Michigan sophomore Nik Stauskas was a logical choice for a team looking to add spacing around Cousins. After shooting 44.0 and 44.2 percent in back to back seasons in college from distance, he looked like a perfect fit.

Unfortunately for the team, the highlight of his time there may have been when a closed caption error gave him the nickname Sauce Castillo.

Stauskas would only play one season for Sacramento, appearing in 73 games and starting one. He could not seem to find his niche for the team. He would be traded that offseason with Carl Landry, Jason Thompson, a future first-round pick and two years of swap rights for the rights to two international players. Back spasms and stress fractures would derail his attempt at a new career with the Philadelphia 76ers.

He was traded again two years later along with fellow former first-round miss Jahlil Okafor for Trevor Booker. He would make two more stops in Portland and with the Cleveland Cavaliers before heading overseas for this last season.

In this wonky draft, it is hard to crush the Kings for this selection. The best player in the draft (debatable) went 41st overall. While Gary Harris and Zach LaVine would have ultimately fit better, Stauskas made sense at the time, but consistency ended up being the bane of his existence.

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