NBA Draft Rumors 2014: Sacramento Kings to work out Noah Vonleh, Marcus Smart & Tyler Ennis
The Sacramento Kings will have a lot of questions to answer in the offseason.
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Forward Rudy Gay will likely opt out and become an unrestricted free agent while point guard Isaiah Thomas will be a restricted free agent.
The first question the Kings will have to answer is what do with the eighth-overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.
According to James Ham of Cowbell Kingdom, the Kings will have former Indiana Hoosiers’ big man Noah Vonleh and former Oklahoma State Cowboys’ point guard Marcus Smart in for workouts at 10:30 Monday morning. They will follow that by having former Syracuse Orange point guard Tyler Ennis, UTEP Minors’ center John Bohannon, former St. Mary’s Gaels’ guard Stephen Holt and former Pepperdine Waves and UCLA Bruins’ power forward Brendan Lane.
The Kings have announced that Marcus Smart and Noah Vonleh will work out for the team on Monday morning at 10:30.
— James Ham (@James_HamNBA) May 31, 2014
John Bohannon (UTEP), Tyler Ennis (Syracuse), Stephen Holt (St. Mary’s (CA) and Brendan Lane (Pepperdine) visit Kings Monday at 11:45am
— James Ham (@James_HamNBA) May 31, 2014
Smart and Vonleh could both be top five picks and will almost certainly go in the top seven or eight. Smart averaged 18.0 points, 5.9 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game last season. Vonleh went for 11.3 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. Ennis, who also could be a lottery pick, put up 12.9 points, 5.5 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game.
The other three prospects aren’t as well-known.
- Bohannon is a 6’10 center who averaged 11.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 blocks per game last season.
- Holt, a 6’5 guard, put up 15.2 points, 3.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game last season.
- Lane, a 6’9, 235-pound power forward spent his first three years as a UCLA Bruin before transferring to Pepperdine. He averaged 13.1 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 1.3 assists per game last season.