WRG Mock Draft #23: Sacramento Kings

With our first pick of the night, we got our point guard of the future in Ricky Rubio. Now we can look to fill in the blanks and other needs.

We have young developing big men that we've recently drafted (Jason Thompson, Spencer Hawes). We don't feel that it's a pressing need to add more youth to our frontcout. We can only spend so much on diapers.

We want to take a player who can give us minutes and fit in with our uptempo style that Paul Westphal will surely implement.

With the 22nd pick, the Sacramento Kings select:

From G-Town to Paul Westphal? WOOOOO!

DaJuan Summers, F, Georgetown

We believe DaJuan Summers is an absolute steal at this point, especially as a fit to our team. Playing in Georgetowns methodical offense, his talents were masked, and he's shown in workouts that he will be fantastic in a more uptempo setting. He has a great body and can play the PF position, while spreading the floor, as well as the SF spot.

The Portland Trailblazers are on the clock.

WRG Mock Draft: #4, Sacramento Kings

The Kings are jumping up and down because we need a PG and now we have our choice of all of them.

PG is the strongest and deepest position in this draft. There are several to choose from and they come in many different flavors. There are flashy distributors, bull-strong scorers, solid all-arounders and guys representing every color in the intangibles rainbow - good and bad.

The player we want, though, is the one most likely to make our guys better. We have a talent deficit. We have solid developing bigs and a big-time scorer, but we go into almost every game with less talent than the other team. That's tough.

So we are swinging for the fences and taking the player that has the most star potential of the remaining players - maybe all of the players - in this draft.

And we are happy he's at the position we need and that he wants to play for us.

The Kings select Ricky Rubio.

Rubio is hungry to play for the Kings.

The Washington Wizards are on the clock.

WRG Mock Draft: #3, Oklahoma City Thunder

With the Grizzlies taking Harden, the Thunder are very disappointed that they couldn't get the player they were targeting. Drafting a PG who struggles with his outside shot was SO last year with Russell Westbrook, so I wouldn't draft Ricky Rubio.

The Thunder could use a 2 guard, or some help on the front line, especially at the center position, especially after their trade for Tyson Chandler fell through. With no real shot blocking threats down low, a defensive shot blocking center is a huge need, especially next to an undersized Jeff Green.

If Harden is off the board, the Thunder select:


Hasheem Thabeet, C, UConn


Trotting out a lineup with the trio of Westbrook, Durant, and Green, scoring isn't an immediate need. Thabeet will man the center position and help be an eraser on the defensive end, which is something that the Thunder need. Nenad Krstic is the only other center on the roster, and he's more of a jumpshooting big man who doesn't like to get dirty inside, so Thabeet is the pick. He'll add a defensive presence down low and with the defenses constantly focusing on the perimeter scorers, it'll open up some easy dunks for him inside.

The Sacramento Kings are on the clock.