Vlade Divac and the Kings failed to make a big splash in free agency this summer despite entering the offseason as one of the few teams with significant cap space, putting the organization in a rare position of power that they won’t be able to leverage next summer when the rest of the league also has significant cap space available.
What the Kings did do, after the Chicago Bulls matched the Kings’ offer sheet for restricted free agent Zach LaVine, was go out and sign a couple of younger veterans to reasonable contracts that they probably wouldn’t have been able to land if they didn’t hoard their cap space for as long as they did.