Mystery surrounding the development of Georgios Papagiannis will persist as long as he’s unable to crack the Kings’ rotation.
He’s a 7-foot-1, 240-pound center in a league that plays smaller and faster, so there are nights where it doesn’t make sense for the Kings to put him on the floor.
But injuries and lineup changes can dictate when the second-year center from Greece gets playing time, as he did in Sunday’s 108-93 loss to the Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre.
Zach Randolph (rest) did not play and two of the Kings’ 7-footers, Willie Cauley-Stein and Kosta Koufos, were in the starting lineup.