Give up Doncic! Trade Halliburton! The Kings are completely out of salvation

The Thunder reached the finals, and the most uncomfortable thing was the Clippers. The Pacers are expected to reach the finals, who is the most uncomfortable? Team Kings! US media NBA Memes posted photos of Halliburton wearing the Kings jersey and wrote: "How do you feel, Kings fans?" After Halliburton left the Kings, he reached the Eastern Conference Finals twice, and he was still one game away from reaching the Finals this year.

During this period, the Kings only made it to the playoffs once and were eliminated in the first round. The Kings chose Fox between Fox and Halliburton, but now the basketball game is useless, and Fox has not kept it. The King sent Halliburton away. At that time, the media rated the Pacers with the transaction A, and the King with the rating was only D+. In the summer of 2022, Halliburton talked about the details of being traded by the Kings: "Before the deal happened, I played very well with the Kings, and I felt that the Kings management could not trade me. When the agent called me, the deal was completed. After hanging up the phone, I cried for an hour myself."

Haliburton was the No. 12 pick in the first round of 2020. In the 2021-22 season, Halliburton played 51 regular season games for the Kings, averaging 14.3 points, 3.9 rebounds, 7.4 assists and 1.7 breaks, shooting percentage of 45.7%, three-point shooting percentage of 41.3%, and free throw percentage of 83.7%. This is just the second season of Halliburton's career, and the statistics are excellent enough!

On February 9, 2022, the Kings made a speechless deal: send Halliburton, Hilder and Tristan Thompson to the Pacers, getting Sabonis Jr., Jeremy Lamb, Justin Holiday and a second round pick. In the 2022-23 season, the Kings returned to the playoffs after 17 years.

The reason why the king sent Halliburton away was that he and Fox played the same way! In the summer of 2024, the Kings signed DeRozan for 3 years with a total of $76.7 million, but his running-in with the team was not ideal. On December 28, 2024, the Kings fired head coach Mike Brown. A month later, Fox applied for a trade and appointed the next Spurs.

Since Fox can't be kept, there is nothing wrong with the Kings trading. The problem is, the Kings traded Fox and Hurt for Lavender. DeRozan + LaVine didn’t play in the east, let alone the west? No one knows what the King's management is thinking! This season, the Kings missed the playoffs again with 40 wins and 42 losses, and Sa also wanted to leave!

Some teams are bad because the boss is reluctant to spend money; some teams are bad because the management is incompetent. The Kings are obviously the latter. In the 2018 NBA Draft, the Kings held the second pick. The King's boss wanted to choose Doncic. At that time, general manager Divac said that Doncic and Fox played in conflict and finally chose Bagley.

Think carefully about the operations of the Kings over the past few years: because of Fox, he gave up Doncic; because of Fox, he traded Halliburton. In the summer of 2020, the Kings boss fired Divac and then hired Mont McNair as Kings general manager. In April this year, McNair was fired half an hour after the Kings were eliminated in the playoffs!

Finally welcome to discuss: Do you think the Kings still have hope next season?