The Kings and Suns remain inextricably linked thanks to the draft day trade of 2015 that sent Marquese Chriss to Phoenix and Bogdan Bogdanovic, Skal Labissiere and Georgios Papagiannis to Sacramento.
It’s still too early to judge the outcome of the trade for either team, but that trade marked the first sign of Sacramento committing to a full rebuild and acquiring assets for once rather than squandering them.
Now the Suns, while supposedly further along in their rebuild, are essentially neck and neck with the Kings.