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It’s clear that the Sacramento Kings are in a transformative stage. This offseason, they have added eight free agents as well as signing two draft picks, including the lengthy defensive stopper, Willie Cauley-Stein. They traded away power forward Jason Thompson and fan favorite Nik “Sauce Castillo” Stauskas to the Philadelphia 76ers to accommodate their plethora of new talent.

For the Los Angeles Lakers, this off-season may have been a bit underwhelming, but they still brought in quality free agents. After "missing out," on LeMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love and DeAndre Jordan, the Lakers were forced to look into the second tier talents. According to some reports, the meetings the Lakers executives held with the big name free agents focused little on basketball, and instead focusing more on the "Hollywood Lifestyle."

Surely, Melo will bring in his vast experience being in the league for 13 years that could also help guide the young players for the Lakers. Aside from experience, his production of 22.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 3.1 assists will surely boost their offense. But who will they offer as trade pieces for Melo?

Hopefully, someone will listen to at least one of these ideas. No one listened the last time I had ideas about the Clippers, and the end result was giving DeAndre Jordan a max contract. (Seriously, how do you sign a guy who is a liability in crunch time because of his free throw shooting to a max contract?)

However, Isaiah is suffering from and a non-fixed hip Injury. Therefore, if Boston wanted Kyrie that bad they had to come off more assets in the deal. Also, former Cavs Star Kyrie Irving requested a trade earlier in the year and was said that he basically did not want to play the shadow of former teammate LeBron James and that he wants to go somewhere else where he can be the number one man on the team. Everyone was shocked to hear about the news considering the fact that LeBron James led them to go to 3 straight finals since he has been back in Cleveland. Other stars in the NBA had words about the request saying that it was “crazy” and that anyone would be lucky to be guaranteed a shot in the finals every year. Why would Irving want to leave a situation where he could play with the league's best player LeBron James? On the other hand, stars Isaiah Tomas and Jae Crowder are more than happy to join King James and the Cavaliers at another chance at a ring. This next season will continue to get more exciting to closer it gets. The Pre-season starts in October and everyone can’t wait to get a sneak peek and see the new teams in action for the first

In recent news the Lakers have picked up Timofey Mozgov and Loul Deng out of free agency and Brandon Ingram and Ivica Zubac out of the

My favorite move of the offseason without question is Kevin Durant going to the Warriors. WOW! My first initial thoughts were what the hell is this guy thinking? You can’t beat them so you join them? Or something is going on within the Thunder’s organization that has influenced him to leave? Guess we will never know. No hard feelings, I respect this brother and understand his motives, he clearly wants to win and the critics can’t do anything but respect that. Adding Durant to the Warriors along with the pieces they currently have is scary. Honestly speaking, these guys should win it all, they are a super team with a lot of offensive firepower. However, the NBA is stacked for next season; I predict a lot of surprises will take place throughout the

After a lackluster season where constant debates over players resting and who should win Most Valuable Player overshadowed the product on the court, the Playoffs are here. . The Playoffs are providing a breathe of fresh air as a number of top tier teams are playing efficient basketball. While other top tier teams face a deficit.

LeBron has been re-crowned, and Steph’s reputation which he has been building over the past couple of years is cracking. In the finals, Steph scored 22.6 ppg exactly, down from his 30 ppg in the regular season. Curry is still a great player: He is the best shooter of all time, a supreme ball handler and can dish it out when he likes. But these playoffs showed that he can be stopped. On the offensive end, Steph wasn’t the guaranteed 30-a-night scorer we had gotten so accustomed to. Teams started to get in his face; the Thunder, with their strength in Adams and Kanter, their length in Roberson and KD, and their speed and hunger in Westbrook harried Steph and his Warriors into some truly abysmal performances. On the defensive end, Steph revealed his true colors. He’s arguably the best offensive weapon in the league, but defensively he’s nothing close to elite. Westbrook and Irving took advantage of this, going right at Curry’s throat and for the most part giving him the

But overall, props to the NBA. The league created a more passive but equally entertaining game, pulling it off with a generational star to boot, removing any possible error. The league got everything it wanted.

However, after that season he was traded to the Houston Rockets. The year after Harden left the Thunder, Westbrook seemed to stagnate averaging similar numbers to the year

After signing Matt Barnes, Aaron Afflalo, and Garrett Temple to go alongside Rudy Gay, Omar Casspi, Ben McLemore, and Marco Beleneli , the roster is loaded with versatile wing players. The most likely scenario is the Kings off loading one (or a combination) of these players. Rudy Gay and Ben McLemore, both slated to be unrestricted free agents next season, are the most likely of the bunch to be traded.

All good current NBA players should have good athleticism, good defense, or clutch ability. By having all of these qualities, these players take over the league. They get swarmed with fans, endorsements, publicity, and most of all money.

Will Stay or Go: Jeremy Evans and Trevor Booker could be on the way out, especially if the Jazz decide they want to make a significant move in free agency. It also doesn't help that they drafted Trey Lyles in the first-round. Still, Booker is more likely to be back over Evans, as he was the first big off the bench after Kanter was traded. Ingles on the other hand, will likely be brought back as he showed potential last season and can be a solid role player going forward for the Jazz.

It’s fitting that a solid, but unspectacular, player in Danilo Gallinari is moving on to a solid, but unspectacular team in the Los Angeles Clippers. Don’t get me wrong, you could do a lot worse at small forward than Gallinari, but he also does little to offset the loss of shipping Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets this offseason. Not to mention, the Clips spent 65 million dollars on a serviceable player while they owe 172 million in a brand-new contract to Blake Griffin and are still on the hook for roughly 46 million owed to DeAndre Jordan in order to just be the fifth seed in the West next year at best.