{"id":477919,"date":"2026-01-08T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477919"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:23:05","slug":"sacramento-kings-reportedly-want-a-first-round-pick-for-keon-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sacramento-kings-reportedly-want-a-first-round-pick-for-keon-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings reportedly want a first-round pick for Keon Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"2125\">The <strong data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1850\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sacramento Kings<\/span><\/span><\/strong> are reportedly looking for a <strong data-start=\"1880\" data-end=\"1900\">first-round pick<\/strong> in return for <strong data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1956\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Keon Ellis<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, according to <strong data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"1991\">J.L. Edwards III<\/strong>. The report notes that the asking price could shift as the trade deadline approaches, but the current talk is a \u201clate first-rounder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2127\" data-end=\"2388\">From a salary standpoint, Ellis is described as an easy fit for New York, as he is making <strong data-start=\"2217\" data-end=\"2233\">$2.3 million<\/strong> this season. Within that context, a hypothetical deal is floated: <strong data-start=\"2300\" data-end=\"2328\">Ellis and Doug McDermott<\/strong> to the Knicks for <strong data-start=\"2347\" data-end=\"2359\">Yabusele<\/strong> and some second-round picks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2390\" data-end=\"2645\">Still, the report stresses that \u201cit takes two to tango.\u201d Yabusele holds a <strong data-start=\"2464\" data-end=\"2481\">player option<\/strong> for next season, a contract detail Sacramento may not be interested in, keeping the focus on the Kings\u2019 current preference: extracting first-round value for Ellis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per J.L. Edwards III, the Sacramento Kings are seeking a first-round pick for Keon Ellis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/Sacramento-Kings.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477919"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477919"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477919"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}