{"id":321791,"date":"2026-05-18T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321791\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:43:11","slug":"the-sacramento-kings-are-a-top-3-nba-team-that-players-dont-want-to-be-traded-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321791\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings are a top 3 NBA team that players don’t want to be traded to"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Athletic\u2019s 2026 Anonymous NBA Player Poll<\/a> included this question: What\u2019s the first team on your no-trade list? The Sacramento Kings came in third with 10.8% of the vote, behind the Washington Wizards (11.7%) and the Memphis Grizzlies running away with the top spot at 35.8%.<\/p>\n

The reasoning behind Memphis scoring so poorly was:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll play anywhere, honestly,\u201d one player explained. \u201cBut I would have to say Memphis is a place I don\u2019t want to live. So that would be the reason why I wouldn\u2019t want to play there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said another player: \u201cIt has nothing to do with the team. It\u2019s the location of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reasoning behind the Wizards: \u201cThe team has not won 50 games in a season or reached the Eastern Conference finals since 1978-79. Its 17-65 record as it tanked this season likely perpetuated the losing-franchise narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article didn\u2019t go into detail as to the reasoning behind the Kings landing in the third spot, but who are we kidding? No one is the least bit surprised by this right? You don\u2019t need me to drone on about this franchise, its decisions, its owner, its track record, its everything. We do that all year-long here at Kings Herald Dot Com.<\/p>\n

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Ask any Kings fan and they won\u2019t have a problem quickly providing their own reasoning.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, how about you all provide your reasons in the comments. Let\u2019s hear it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Athletic\u2019s 2026 Anonymous NBA Player Poll included this question: What\u2019s the first team on your no-trade list? The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[129,121,123,128,122],"class_list":["post-321791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-nba","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321791","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=321791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}