While none of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sports world are promising, there are silver linings if you look hard enough. One negative effect that the current hiatus will have on the NBA is a lowering of the salary cap, giving teams less money to pay their players and spend on their roster. For a select few teams including the Sacramento Kings, this might actually be a good thing, at least temporarily.
We’ve known for some time that the 2020 free agent pool was going to be one of the weaker ones in recent memory, which was something that was going to hurt the Kings.