For a few brief, glorious minutes in Monday’s preseason opener against the Phoenix Suns, the Sacramento Kings rolled out a lineup of Willie Cauley-Stein, Harry Giles, Marvin Bagley III, Skal Labissiere, and Frank Mason III. It was baffling, but it didn’t last long. It could be chalked up to preseason experimentation, or just a lack of bodies. The Kings were missing Bogdan Bogdanovic, Nemanja Bjelica, Kosta Koufos, and Iman Shumpert.
But on Tuesday Kings head coach Dave Joerger made some remarks in an interview with KHTK that suggests this may not have been a one-time fluke.