Kings Critical Need to Balance Out Roster

After a busy few weeks following the Sacramento Kings' play-in loss, we've officially entered the rumor and trade idea segment of the offseason. As ideas from fans and media fly around, trying to fix the Kings roster from afar, it's apparant that the Kings need to make multiple moves to balance out their roster.

The hard part is that there's no clear path to a simple solution, especially when looking at the contracts that the Kings have on the books for next season.

Sacramento currently has ten players under contract for next season: Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Malik Monk, Keegan Murray, Keon Ellis, Jonas Valančiūnas, Devin Carter, Isaac Jones, and Terence Davis

While there is plenty of talent among those ten players, the Kings are facing a major issue that the majority of the talent is stacked at two positions: shooting guard and center. But it's not just that the talent overlaps, but also the money.

Seven of the ten players are either shooting guards or centers, leaving the Kings with an abundance of needs at the point guard position and the wings. And that's being generous and calling Carter a point guard, where he may have more of an off-guard skillset.

And when looking at the money, the shooting guard quartet of LaVine, Monk, Ellis, and Davis is going to make a combined $71.1 million. For the centers, the trio of Sabonis, Valančiūnas, and Jones is set to make $56.0 million next season.

That means that the two positions of shooting guard and center are currently set to make $127 million for the Kings next year. Adding in the contracts of DeRozan, Murray, and Carter, and Sacramento's ten contracts total $167.9 million.

With the tax threshold projected to be $187.8 million, that leaves the Kings with an extremely small amount of wiggle room to add point guards, wings, and power forwards.