The future remains murky for oft-injured Kings power forward Marvin Bagley III, a talented scorer who still needs to develop on defense, writes Jason Jones of The Athletic.
Bagley has shown flashes of the reason he was so highly coveted out of Duke during his second game back after his latest injury, a left hand bone fracture that kept him sidelined for 22 contests. The Kings selected Bagley with the No. 2 draft pick in 2018 ahead of future All-Stars Luka Doncic and Trae Young.
“Obviously nobody plans to get a hand caught in a jersey and break your hand, but you can’t control things like that,” Bagley said of his latest injury for the Kings. “What I could control was how I prepared to come back and things that I was doing to make sure I was ready when I did come back.” Sacramento will pay for Bagley’s $11.3MM player option next season. Jones writes that, though Bagley was rumored to be a potential trade candidate in March, the Kings could not find a deal that would net them enough of a return to be worth pursuing.
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