Free agency was a relatively dead period for the Sacramento Kings lost offseason. In fact, their biggest move was inaction: they decided not to match Bogdan Bogdanovic’s offer sheet from the Atlanta Hawks.
At the time, the decision was somewhat defensible. The Hawks had made Bogdanovic’s contract as unappealing as possible by giving the guard $72 million over four years and adding a player option and a trade kicker. Everyone around the league knew that Bogdanovic was not part of Sacramento’s future, since the team had just attempted to sign-and-trade him to Milwaukee, so the Kings would either be stuck with the burdensome salary of a player who would block minutes for Tyrese Haliburton, or they would have to trade him from a position of weakness.