The Sacramento Kings may have lost in the first round of the playoffs, but their season was far from a failure. The Kings ended the longest postseason drought in American professional sports and took the defending champions all the way to Game 7. The future is bright in the California capital.
However, next season, the Kings won’t be such a cute upstart at the end anymore. Instead, they’ll have a much bigger target on their backs – Mike Brown’s team will never be overlooked again.
With their season ending on Sunday, it won’t be long before the Kings start planning how to “light the beam” deeper into next year’s postseason.
What moves should the Sacramento Kings make in the off-season to build on the success of the 2022-23 campaign?
Like any team, the Kings have a slew of free agents slated to hit the market over the summer. Not many are critical of the series’ future, but all eyes will be on what Sacramento decides to do with talented winger Harrison Barnes.
Another item on the agenda concerns the future of Domantas Sabonis, who has reached superstar status this season. He won’t go anywhere over the summer, but he’s eligible for an extension before free agency after the 2023-24 season. It is likely that the kings would like to do this.
Plus, the Kings will have to make the same annoying decisions every franchise needs to make this time of year, like whether or not to hit phones in some trades and what to do with the NBA Draft. Here are three moves the Sacramento Kings should consider this summer.