{"id":153146,"date":"2026-01-28T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:11:38","slug":"report-kings-zach-lavine-would-love-to-move-on-from-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153146\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kings\u2019 Zach LaVine would \u2018love to move on from Sacramento\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears Zach LaVine<\/a> would be OK with not being a King for a day. Or anytime after the February 5 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

According to James Ham of Locked On Kings<\/a>, LaVine would \u201cabsolutely love to move on from Sacramento,\u201d though his maximum-salary contract remains a significant roadblock to any real movement.<\/p>\n

There was some early optimism about a possible framework involving Milwaukee, centered on Kyle Kuzma<\/a> and Bobby Portis<\/a>, but that momentum has cooled amid the Bucks\u2019 recent struggles and Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>\u2019s latest calf strain.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Toronto continues to hover around the Kings\u2019 orbit.<\/p>\n

Ham reports the Raptors could explore a push for Domantas Sabonis<\/a>, but one thing appears clear: Sacramento has no appetite for Jakob Poeltl<\/a>. Ham relayed that a Kings source flatly dismissed that idea.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018We\u2019re not getting into the Jakob Poeltl business\u2019 is what I was told,\u201d Ham said.<\/p>\n

That same source, however, did not rule out interest in Raptors wing RJ Barrett<\/a>, an interesting wrinkle given Kings GM Scott Perry\u2019s history in New York when Barrett was drafted.<\/p>\n

As for Keon Ellis<\/a>, another popular name in league chatter, Ham pushed back on the idea that he has been part of Raptors-Kings discussions. A source told him \u201cunequivocally\u201d that Toronto and Sacramento have not talked about Ellis to this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears Zach LaVine would be OK with not being a King for a day. Or anytime after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-153146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}