NBA Rumors: Sacramento Kings Unlikely To Pull Trade Trigger On Buddy Hield

The Sacramento Kings need to make key changes soon and that includes possibly moving out some players. A name that has cropped is Buddy Hield, someone who lost his starting job to Bogdan Bogdanovic.

Regardless, new team general manager Monte McNair has not shown any indication of shopping the 27-year-old guard as of now.

Though he has fallen down the pecking order, things could be different this 2020-21 NBA season. Known to be one of the league’s good three-point shooters, there is a chance that he could eventually be re-inserted into the starting lineup.

An unnamed source feels that the Kings have no immediate plans of placing Hield on the block. If the 6th pick of the 2016 NBA Draft was one of the players up for trade, multiple teams would have wasted no time discussing with the Kings by now.

Hence, Sacramento has no plans of trading him at this point, Forbes reported.

“It is not something where they seem to be shopping him very actively. Maybe it would be better to wait, to see how the season starts, but I don’t get the sense that they’re out there really laying the groundwork for a deal. They’re just not yet shopping him,” the source said in the report.

Hield is believed to be at odds with his contract, unhappy with the final figures. It would be best to note that the new lease was laid down by former Kings general manager Vlade Divac.

Things just got worse when he was made to come off the bench. Such led to cryptic messages from the 2020 NBA Three-Point contest champion, NBC Sports reported.

“Y’all know how I talk, y’all know how I feel with all the stuff. Y’all can read me well, so I’ll let y’all answer that for yourselves,” Hield said at the time.

But with a new general manager handling the Kings, three is a chance that Hield could find his way back up the ranks.

McNair wants the Kings to adapt an uptempo offense, making Hield a good fit for those plans.

The team official will need to sit down with Hield and try to set things straight. But that cannot happen unless the player starts talking to McNair or even Luke Walton.

Efforts to reach the 6-foot-5 guard proved futile last month with Hield not answer Walton’s calls, The Athletic reported. That could be different if McNair calls the Bahamian cager up himself.