The plan to suspend trading the backcourt general, but the King is still unwavering about signing Westbrook?

In the latest tweet, a well-known ESPN reporter Marc Stein talked about the news about Russell Westbrook and Malik Monk. According to Stein, the Kings had explored trading guard Malik Monk earlier in the offseason, but the relevant negotiations have come to an end for the time being, and the team has temporarily stopped trading negotiations with Monk. Sources say the Kings have been maintaining a lot of interest in signing free agent Westbrook. They have indeed explored other trading options, and they believe that even if they don't trade Monk, they can make a backcourt position through other operations to sign Westbrook.

In the NBA regular season last season, Westbrook made a total of 75 appearances for the Denver Nuggets in 82 games, averaging 27.9 minutes per game, averaging 13.3 points, 4.9 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.4 steals and 0.5 blocks, and 3.2 turnovers and 2.5 fouls, shooting percentage of 44.9%, three-point shooting percentage of 32.3%, and free throw shooting percentage of 66.1%. In the playoffs, Westbrook made a total of 14 appearances, averaging 24.1 minutes per game, averaging 11.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 0.9 steals, and 0.1 blocks. He also had 2.3 turnovers and 3.2 fouls. His shooting percentage was 39.1%, three-point shooting percentage was 31.7%, and his free throw shooting percentage was 70%. In the NBA regular season last season, Monk played 65 times for the Kings, averaging 31.6 minutes per game, averaging 17.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.6 blocks, and 2.4 turnovers and 2.4 fouls, shooting percentage of 43.9%, three-point shooting percentage of 32.5%, and free throw shooting percentage of 86.5%.

From this series of news today, we can judge that the king wants to send Munch away while making himself less at a loss. However, everyone knows that if you want to send Munch away, the king will not be able to make a profit in this case. There is a huge gap with his own goal, so the king of course has to choose to give up the deal. But in this situation, they still didn't give up and wanted to continue signing Westbrook, and even sent away other players through other methods, which was even more outrageous.

It has to be said that the king's series of operations are really confusing. We can understand that the Kings need point guards, but they are just a substitute point guards. Considering that they signed players like Doug McDermott and Drew Eubanks after the free market started, we thought they were not that obsessed with the substitute point guard position, and they might have thought that young players like Devin Carter were also doubly able to play this position. Now that we have reached this stage, it is simply incomprehensible that they have to sign him through various means without any market conditions in Westbrook. I'm really so interested in Westbrook, wouldn't it be over to sign him early? Is it necessary to create such a bunch of big dramas?