NBA Week 12 Power Rankings: Questions for each team after the break

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Previous: 26th. Sacramento Kings. 26. team. 84. . 15-23

Last Week: Beat Houston Rockets 125-105, Lost to Atlanta Hawks 121-106

This Week: 3/15 at Charlotte Hornets, 3/17 at Washington Wizards, 3/19 at Boston Celtics, 3/20 at Philadelphia 76ers

Question: Have they finally realized that they should not be competing this season?

For much of the season, the Sacramento Kings have been content to keep their roster intact and try to make the postseason for the first time in nearly two decades. Something seems to be changing as the losses continue to pile up. All of a sudden trade rumors are starting to swirl around Harrison Barnes, Buddy Hield and Nemanja Bjelica.

This is the best thing possible for the Kings. Certainly, the never-ending missing of the postseason is depressing and damaging for players’ psyches but give the market selling on players who are not part of their future should help a team that finally looks to have hit on another lottery pick.

Making the right choices is tough, especially when you have not tasted the postseason in so long. But bringing back value for Barnes, a solid veteran, could help finally build around two promising young players. Even in the DeMarcus Cousins era, the Kings did not have that.

For once, this is not the kind of selling that should hurt fans. Hield and Barnes are solid players, but they are not the homegrown talents that De’Aaron Fox, Marvin Bagley III and Tyrese Haliburton are. Flexibility is key for the Kings.