Kings Sign Duje Dukan
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Yeah. Reports are often sloppy about that sort of distinction, but its a big one.
We haven't actually signed Dukan to be part of our team next year. We've invited him to training camp to give him a chance to play his way onto the team, or more likely, Reno.
P.S. a lot of those deals are non-guaranteed until December...or January, forgot which. There's a date there, where if a player is still on your roster after it the contract becomes guaranteed. So partial guarantee we'll pay you up to this day, but the rest of the deal may be voided if you don't stick.
We haven't actually signed Dukan to be part of our team next year. We've invited him to training camp to give him a chance to play his way onto the team, or more likely, Reno.
P.S. a lot of those deals are non-guaranteed until December...or January, forgot which. There's a date there, where if a player is still on your roster after it the contract becomes guaranteed. So partial guarantee we'll pay you up to this day, but the rest of the deal may be voided if you don't stick.
Guys...once upon a forever ago I remember when the Kings got their own piece of the great Georgetown Hoya big man tradition, and went out and added to the roster one of Georgetown's centers. Unfortunately that center was named Ben Gillery. Ben had been a pet project of John Thompson. He was 7'1" tall, long, and so despite being incredibly uncoordinated and having the bball IQ of a shoebox, Thompson would give him spot starts in games and then pull him after a few minutes, hoping that somehow he would learn how to play basketball. He never did. But that didn't stop us from adding him to our roster and actually keeping him on it for all or most of the year. And he was quite possibly the worst player in our long inglorious history, and one of the worst in the history of the NBA. He didn't even earn college minutes, and we gave him garbage minutes in the big leagues.
Fast forward to today and the strange case of Duje Dukan. this was Duje's 4 year college career:
2010-11 2.1min 0.3ppg
2011-12 3.4min 0.8ppg
2012-13 MISSED
2013-14 8.1min 2.8ppg
2014-15 15.9min 4.7ppg (.387 .319 .674) 2.6reb 0.6ast 0.2stl 0.1blk 0.7TO
This is a SCRUB. A scrub of the highest order who happened to get hot during summer league. He will show up, he will face somebody like LeBron in a preseason game, and we won't even have to void his contract because all that will be left will be a bloodstain on the floor. Maybe soembody in the front row will catch an ear.
Expect absolutely nothing. I suspect even he does. Even going so far as to get invited to a camp is a minor miracle for such a figure.
Fast forward to today and the strange case of Duje Dukan. this was Duje's 4 year college career:
2010-11 2.1min 0.3ppg
2011-12 3.4min 0.8ppg
2012-13 MISSED
2013-14 8.1min 2.8ppg
2014-15 15.9min 4.7ppg (.387 .319 .674) 2.6reb 0.6ast 0.2stl 0.1blk 0.7TO
This is a SCRUB. A scrub of the highest order who happened to get hot during summer league. He will show up, he will face somebody like LeBron in a preseason game, and we won't even have to void his contract because all that will be left will be a bloodstain on the floor. Maybe soembody in the front row will catch an ear.
Expect absolutely nothing. I suspect even he does. Even going so far as to get invited to a camp is a minor miracle for such a figure.
If you get obliterated in every aspect not much of one.
Dude wasn't even a good college player. This is why they have summer league in Vegas. What happens in Vegas often stays in Vegas.
But you're right that he is now getting his chance. He had the shooting week of his life, and its let him have a cup of coffee I doubt he ever realistically thought he'd have before he begins his career as areal estate agent or whatever.
Dude wasn't even a good college player. This is why they have summer league in Vegas. What happens in Vegas often stays in Vegas.
But you're right that he is now getting his chance. He had the shooting week of his life, and its let him have a cup of coffee I doubt he ever realistically thought he'd have before he begins his career as areal estate agent or whatever.
Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.
Brick, I don't know if you're using some reverse psychology, but now I have to pull for the guy. He's going to become our human victory cigar. When the game is totally, obviously, completely in the win column, the chant will begin, softly at first, then louder and louder, until it's all anyone can think about:
"DooYAY...DooYAY...DooYAY!"
He's going to come in and hit four threes in a row, playing to the crowd all the while. He's going to be carried off the floor on the shoulders of his cheering teammates, hands raised as the crowd roars its approval.
"DooYAY...DooYAY...DooYAY!"
He's going to come in and hit four threes in a row, playing to the crowd all the while. He's going to be carried off the floor on the shoulders of his cheering teammates, hands raised as the crowd roars its approval.
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