{"id":107988,"date":"2025-08-25T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107988\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:48:09","slug":"kings-reportedly-not-actively-pursuing-malik-monk-trade-amid-russell-westbrook-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107988\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings Reportedly Not Actively Pursuing Malik Monk Trade amid Russell Westbrook Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sacramento Kings are “not actively engaged” in trade talks surrounding shooting guard Malik Monk after exploring deals involving him earlier in the offseason, according to NBA insider Marc Stein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Kings have also “maintained an interest” in Russell Westbrook as a potential option in free agency, per Stein.<\/p>\n

Westbrook is still available on the free-agent market after spending the 2024-25 season with the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n

On July 28,\u00a0Matt George<\/a>\u00a0of ABC 10 in Sacramento reported that there was “mutual interest” between Westbrook and the Kings, but the team was still attempting to move a guard such as Monk in order to open a backcourt spot for the veteran.<\/p>\n

Stein reported Sunday that the team was looking into creating a possible rotation role for Westbrook “by other means rather than dealing Monk,” though.<\/p>\n

Sacramento’s backcourt for the 2025-26 season became crowded following the\u00a0addition<\/a>\u00a0of point guard Dennis Schr\u00f6der in a sign-and-trade agreement with the Detroit Pistons in July.<\/p>\n

Monk averaged a career-high 17.2 points per game for the Kings during his 2024-25 campaign, but his efficiency decreased. His 43.9 field-goal percentage and 32.5 three-point percentage both represented the lowest marks throughout his three-year tenure with Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The former first-round pick still has three seasons remaining on a four-year, $78 million\u00a0contract<\/a>\u00a0that he signed in 2024. This includes a $21.6 million player option for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n

As for Westbrook, he averaged 13.3 points and 6.1 assists to go along with 4.9 rebounds per game on 44.9\/32.3\/66.1 shooting splits during his lone year with the Nuggets.<\/p>\n

Sacramento still seems to be interested in adding him, but trading Monk in order to do so doesn’t appear to be an imminent outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings are “not actively engaged” in trade talks surrounding shooting guard Malik Monk after exploring deals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-107988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}