{"id":470,"date":"2022-06-30T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/malik-monk-to-land-with-kings\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:26:55","slug":"malik-monk-to-land-with-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/malik-monk-to-land-with-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Malik Monk To Land With Kings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of smoke\u201d about <strong><strong>Malik Monk<\/strong><\/strong>  signing with the <strong>kings<\/strong> once free agency opens at 5:00pm CT, multiple sources tell James Ham of ESPN 1320 and The Kings Beat (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/James_HamNBA\/status\/1542603452907368448\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee hears similarly, reporting (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JandersonSacBee\/status\/1542609026277470208\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">via Twitter<\/a>) that he&#8217;s getting \u201cstrong indications\u201d from sources that Monk could be reuniting with former Kentucky teammate <strong><strong>De&#8217;Aaron Fox<\/strong><\/strong>.  Monk and Fox were both lottery picks in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report was the first to link Monk to the Kings on a Spotify Live appearance with Marc Stein late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Monk struggled to find a team last summer after the Hornets didn&#8217;t tender him a qualifying offer, but became one of the best values \u200b\u200bin the league on a one-year, minimum-salary contract with the <strong>Lakers<\/strong>.  Monk had a career-year last season, averaging 13.8 PPG, 3.4 RPG and 2.9 APG on .473\/.391\/.795 shooting in 76 games (37 starts, 28.1 MPG).<\/p>\n<p>LA only holds Non-Bird rights on Monk and will be limited to a contract that starts at the taxpayer mid-level exception, which is projected to be $6.5MM next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings could offer Monk the mid-level exception, projected to be worth about $10.5MM next season, for as many as four years.  There&#8217;s also a possibility that Sacramento could open up some cap space to sign him outright, depending on if the team makes some trades and releases some of their cap holds.<\/p>\n<p>Monk, 24, is reportedly looking for a role where he can receive significant minutes and \u201cbe himself,\u201d as he recently told Jovan Buha of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a lot of smoke\u201d about Malik Monk signing with the kings once free agency opens at 5:00pm CT, multiple sources tell James Ham of ESPN 1320 and The Kings Beat (twitter link). Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee hears similarly, reporting (via Twitter) that he&#8217;s getting \u201cstrong indications\u201d from sources that Monk could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/malik-monk-to-land-with-kings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malik Monk To Land With Kings?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kings-rumors-malik-monk-will-sign-with-sacramento-in-nba-free-agency\/","url_meta":{"origin":470,"position":0},"title":"Kings Rumors: Malik Monk will sign with Sacramento in NBA free agency","date":"June 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Malik Monk has officially reached an agreement to sign with the Sacramento Kings, according to multiple reports. 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