2023-06-30 15:14:00
The Free Agency will open its doors in the NBA, and before the signings of the first transfers begin to fall! New deal between the Kings and the Pacers but this time revolved around Chris Duarte, the 26-year-old back leaves Indiana to join Sacramento.
Shams bomb !
A few months following having already worked together around the transfer between Domantas Sabonis and Tyrese Haliburton, the Kings and the Pacers have apparently decided to shake hands once once more. Indeed, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Chris Duarte will be transferring to Sacramento in the coming days.
If the part sent in exchange by the Kings is not precisely known, it will concern compensation via the Draft, therefore potential second rounds of the Draft.
The Indiana Pacers are nearing a trade sending guard Chris Duarte to the Sacramento Kings for draft compensation, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 30, 2023
Chris Duarte had made a great start to his career in the NBA, in the Pacers in transition. Older than the rookies of his vintage, the guard had immediately seduced in Indiana, but he did not yet know how much the landscape was going to change in the region.
With the successive arrivals of Tyrese Haliburton, Bennedict Mathurin and Andrew Nembhard, it was a 1-2 position that quickly found itself blocked and blocked opportunities on the Duarte side. Add to that injuries that fall at the worst time and you find yourself faced with the obvious: finding a new franchise for Chris.
It is therefore the Kings who will try to develop the native of Montreal in the coming months off the bench, within a Sacramento franchise that believes in its group. After extending Harrison Barnes this weekend, Sacramento management is bolstering Group B and hoping to go even further in the Western Conference next year.
To watch on the Pacers side, the opening of a fairly substantial salary margin, which might coincide with the signing of a sniper like Max Strus or a defender like Dillon Brooks at the Free Agency.
Source : The Athletic
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