5 teams J.R. Smith should sign with for 2016-17 season

4. Sacramento Kings

If Smith isn’t careful, he could land with arguably the NBA’s most dysfunctional organization and nowhere near playoff contention. The Kings could make him the multi-year offer he seeks, and if they trade Rudy Gay or Ben McLemore there could be a starting job and/or a big role available to boot.

With the ever combustible coach killer DeMarcus Cousins as the centerpiece in Sacramento, Smith would seem to fit right in on a roster full of misfits and underachievers. New coach Dave Joerger brings an air of credibility to Sacramento, stemming from a solid run in the same position with the Memphis Grizzlies, but the top levels of the Kings’ organization remain the same with short-sighted incompetence that’s hard to overcome.

Smith would ideally fit best on a contending team, with a specific role he is capable of filling in the right situation, so his signing with the Kings would rightly invite skepticism regardless of the contract terms. But it would also be a marriage made in possible dysfunctional heaven, and the sideshow in Sacramento would turn up another notch with Smith’s presence.