Sacramento Kings front office overruled by owner Vivek Ranadive in 2014 NBA Draft 

Jesus Wenceslao I died when he said that lmao

Ron Howard voice "They were all wrong."

Mitch Richmond asks the only valid question, after seeing they have Vonleh ranked 3rd - how does he fit in the lineup when they already have Cousins... and they start talking about assists... wtf???

Narrator: But no one could predict what Portland could do with him. Enter opening night 2018.

Wouldn’t the narrator say “they”?

Philly called back because they wanted to take on Stauskas. In the end they stole the 2019 Kings pick by taking Stauskas in a salary dump. Man, I wish we had one of these from the Billy King/Danny Ainge trade.

It did appear earlier in the video that they had had a prior discussion about an embiid trade and the 76ers were at least pretending to consider it. So then he called them to check, once embiid was confirmed to still be on the board at 3

Nick rocks 😃

@@adobopr_ More like: KICK ROCKS

Well, atleast they showed us. Hope other teams will do this too

How many have you seen?

100% this. Pick the best player available, three years in a row, and you make the playoffs as they build chemistry together.

🎯

​@@dennissvitak5475Noel, embiid, okafor....

@@maartenvzthat still comes down to scouting. You’re not guaranteed to always get the best player but if one of them turns out to be an mvp you’re doing alright

XChronicHash seriously

I’m a Kong’s fan with season tickets and cry every time I think nick rocks

This is a funny comment to see 6 years later 💀

😂😂😂😂

KICK ROCKS

Hes delusional

Wym? They all wanted Stauskus. The GM wanted to trade up and take Embiid, but when Philly said no it seemed like everyone agreed to take Nik at 8

@@tbtbandbeavs8423 no one will go against the boss lol

@@tbtbandbeavs8423 The problem? Vivek should not be involved in basketball decisions. Period. The added pressure of trying to make a decision to appease your boss when he makes his choice known is not cool. Especially when Vivek knows nothing about basketball.

There even talk Vivek also put the kibosh on Kings drafting Luka Dončić. Kings GM at the time Vlade Divac being also of Serbian heritage like Luka's father and personally knowing the family wanted to sign him. Vivek had other ideas. Ultimately Divac was forced to fall on his sword.

Sam B stauskas could have been a solid player, the kings are just toxic though

Vivek thinks he knows what he is doing bc he coached his daughters basketball games...middle school isn't the NBA Vivek!

it's stupid, Everybody said stauskas cause the boss said stauskas...no one will disagree with the boss

Dude, they didn't even think about getting Lavine, Hood, Harris, Payton, Nurkic...They're all tools.

And Chicken Tikka Masala

WHEN HE WROTE THE IGG I THOUGHT WHAT THE FUCK IS HE WRITING!!

Dude really needs to work on his Ws.

Legend, best man to live in 2014

Godvernment I️ started dying when he said that

Lol viveks a clown. Clueless owner. Smart is still on the team that drafted him. Stauskas is out of the league.

@@pzyger7005 Boston plan complete, now we have BOTH

@@handy0522this didn’t age well

@@Highlight_Hoops ok

They will only do that for the picks they are succesful. Haha.

Plenty of vids for the raptors

The raptors youtube account has some awesome draft day videos

😂😂

Hilarious .. you have multiple HOF type players and Staukas ROCKS is the pick 😂😂

bruh they knew in 1 year. they traded his ass after rookie season

Tapan Patel To Be fair, it was doomed from the start. Stauskas literally said he didn’t want to play there.

BUBBLE GUTS Well, Vlade Divac did clean this mess up during his three years as Sacramento Kings VP of basketball ops/GM. Now with all these moves including trading DeMarcus Cousins and his drafting, let's see if Vlade is the Geoff Petrie during the Greatest Show on Court era and not the Petrie after Rick Adelman left.

BUBBLE GUTS sucks to be u hahaha

You should be a warriors fan

Yeah it sucked. But there wasnt any good decission on that spot. Stauskas was trash but hey Divac did his job since then. Got some nice pieces but with the Warriors ridiculous team its not even worth watching anymore lol

ducknuts6 try being a Mavs fan and finding out Cuban passed on Giannis for $200K

Payton himself proved to be a bad pick

Agreed. The FO was aligned with Stauskas before

i mean... Payton sucked too lol

@@bloodbloodblood Payton didn't suck in the same way. He still in the league for a reason.

@@Gvvenk Exactly!!

@@Gvvenk well look who’s back, none other than sauce Castillo himself on the Celtics. Glad to see him mclemore and Peyton have all found a way to stay in the league one way or another.

@@Subarusyndicate this comment aged like milk

Ian Benton Elfrid Payton been pretty good actually great defender still playing in the NBA averaging around 13 ppg. Would of been better pick than Stauskas at least

I know hindsight is 20/20 but like 7 better players selected after nik and payton.. Lavine,t.j warren, gary harris,Hood,jokic,Nurkich, clarkson,Saric etc..

kangaroo69ful Jokic is the only one I’d care about missing out on .

Big Virgil lol then u don’t watch basketball. Every single player that he named are better then stauskas by a lot to.

Antbeast23 the magic gave him away for a 2nd rounder lmao

Saz .T lmao as a Mavs fan this is hilarious

@@firstnamelastname6920 Cuban has made a ton of horrible moves but he looks amazing compared to Vivek

Even funnier now lol

@@georgepolychronopoulos647 as a kings fan I’m fucking dying physically cringing in pain

Still is

Fei Long But they don’t know they will get fired. That’s the point .

The thing is Vivek has zero basketball knowledge. He shouldn’t have a say in anything.

It really is lol and you can’t throw your GM under the bus two years after the fact either. But this video is the epitome of the Kings dysfunction. Why even record and post what goes on in your war room in the first place? 🤦‍♂️

At least you'll get fired knowing it was your pick not someone else's

@@kihlos2768 😅👍🏿 💯

I agree owners should have no say in the things they own. I know I want other people making decisions on the things I own so I completely agree with you

Facts

The only draft that the timberwolves competently picked in fucking thibs ruins it and trades him, too. Small markets suck to be fans of.

+Crazyjedi2 The Sacramento Kings were six feet under by the time Vivek Ranadive bought the team in 2013. If I were a Kings fan, I pin the blame on the Maloofs for teasing the fans about staying in Sactown or going to Anaheim, Virginia Bech or Seattle and also Geoff Petrie who did a poor job when the 'Greatest Show on Court' core was completely dismantled and not renewing Rick Adelman's contract.

This is what happens when you have a GM with no balls...

Yeah but I think it's good that they were willing to listen to a new approach and let people in who weren't already part of their social or professional circle. That's rare.

I'm one of those guys. Analytics. I'll say this: What we do is very important, but we do NOT need to be the ones picking. In this draft, Payton wasn't the better analytics pick. Stauskas looked really good on paper. We base it on math. The good ones try to take fit and human element into account, but it's a mathematical formula. Lowest number wins. It's far from perfect, and that's why you have former players like Shareef heading the scouting. I can tell you what the numbers say, but I don't know a player's mindset. He does. The best departments(OKC, PHI, BOS) are an excellent blend of analytics and raw scouting.

It seems like every new owner does that.

Except Divac isn’t really qualified

Yea Vlade is wayyy more qualified. 😒

So far he's been kinda good ?

Yeah, the same "more qualified folks" that passed on Luka Doncic and took Marvin Bagley lll.

iftahaj they have skal and dermacus was probably gonna walk away once his contract expired anyways

White side was trash bro. Lol he even was when he went to Miami hell he played yet another year of d league

They had to let go some of those players honestly tho

Whiteside is in the doghouse in Miami. Thomas is worthless at this point. And cousins just signed a 5 million dollar deal.....

Iftahaj not looking like such a bad decision now

i'm a sixers fan and in the early days of "the process" i used to watch this clip all the time. I just checked to see if Stauskas was still playing and was kinda surprised he's still going at it in the G-league. I can't believe they chose Fox over Haliburton, i hoped we could have gotten Hali for Ben lol

@@bigbrytunney8753 Stauskas just dropped 54pts in g-league. Your sixers could sign him to replace Seth

This comment aged well

What type of Kool-aid were they drinking?

He wasn’t wrong though

@@georgepolychronopoulos647 he was basically saying he can be awful or amazing, like you saying a kid could grow till 6'11 or 5'4, how does that help 💀

It means that there’s a risk. A risk that he is making them to decide if it’s worth it or not.

1984chupacabra Wiggins played the 2 at Kansas...

Wiggins is a shooting guard tho

You stupid fuck

Wiggins and Butler are interchangeable at the 2 and 3. If you paid attention, it actually had Wiggins listed as a shooting guard when he was drafted.

When you get all your basketball info from NBA 2K

Yeah, neither Stauskas nor Payton would've worked out. It's crazy how many hidden gems fell down in that draft though. Lavine, Bogdanovic, Nurkic, Joe Harris, Dinwiddie, Grant, Clarkson, etc... insanely stacked.

@@kiwishu1237 I didn't even realize that. It was a quality draft

C'mon man. It's the Sacramento Kings. They wouldn't have ended up with any of those guys.

That a shit trade anyway bro. Plus what r the chances of anyone hitting draft gold with every second round pic lol

Pro sports teams are just toys for their billionaire owners, and that's exemplified by franchises like the Knicks and the Kings. Winning is only a side benefit as long as the team is making money and appreciating in value.

@@nuraby_9228 except their dumb ideas interfere with that appreciation. The Spurs and Warriors would’ve probably be half as valuable as they are if ownership decided to take over the front office.

@@nuraby_9228 except their dumb ideas interfere with that appreciation. The Spurs and Warriors would’ve probably be half as valuable as they are if ownership decided to take over the front office.

Mike Hawk couple good players that's about it

Gordon, Smart, Randle, Harris, Levine, Capella, Saric......There was some impactful players to be had where they were drafting. Embiid and Jokic were homeruns.

You can't fault them for not taking Jokic.

Nikola Jokic is all that

Do you remember how great Minnesota was after taking him? lol nah Zach took years to be on a decent team

Better than staukas. Staukas is already out of the league at age 26.

@Fei Long But then Sacramento major Kevin Johnson created the Golden 1 Center arena plan. So, KJ deserves the credit.

When I was a kid I attended Golden State Basketball Camp. Mullins did a shooting exhibition, talked to us about whatever it was and signed a poster we were given. I was the last person in line to get his autograph and thank him for the experience. He could care less and obviously wanted to leave asap. He was kind of a dick considering I was an 11 yr old kid.

I am. It’s amazing. LIGHT THE BEAM

@@mrderp8308😂 that beam didn’t even make the playoffs

@@SailorMac808 so. Still a fan. Light the beam!!!