A tough season has come to an finish for the Sacramento Kings.
After a season that featured the dismissal of Mike Brown and the commerce deadline departure of franchise guard De’Aaron Fox, 2024-25 has been a forgettable one for the Sacramento Kings.
The fruits of all these embattled occasions have unfolded on April 16, with Sacramento formally eradicated from the 2025 Playoff rivalry following a brutal 120-106 Play-In Event loss towards the Dallas Mavericks.
DeMar DeRozan now finds himself standing at a crossroads within the River Metropolis.
After three underachieving seasons with the Chicago Bulls, the star swingman arrived in 2024 underneath the pretense that he would be capable of contend on the highest stage and make some noise within the aggressive Western Convention alongside Fox and Domantas Sabonis.
But, what he initially hoped for the Kings, particularly for himself, led to bitter disappointment.
“It’s in all probability essentially the most I’ve been by way of in my 16-year profession,” DeMar DeRozan mirrored.
“The season that we had, it was rather a lot. It’s too arduous to sort of like fathom proper now, however I’m fairly positive over the subsequent couple of days, it’ll sort of hit you, the fact of the whole lot all of us went by way of.”
This marks the third straight yr that DeRozan needed to accept a Play-In end. And for him, he would quite not waste extra time left in his clock.
“That sucks. I feel for me, simply the conclusion of, you recognize? I’m going to my seventeenth season,” he mentioned.
“For me, that’s the fact of it. You don’t have many alternatives left to present your self an opportunity to compete within the playoffs. And that’s all you sort of need at this stage of your profession, simply have an opportunity to get in there and see what occurs. And never essentially taking part in the Play-In, you recognize?
“For me, [not] being within the playoffs within the final couple years, it’s not one thing I need or not a objective for me. So for me, a variety of that might be on my thoughts.”
Ever since earlier than Fox left to affix the San Antonio Spurs, there have been rumblings already on what’s subsequent for each DeRozan and the Kings. And though the ball membership landed his former Bulls teammate Zach LaVine from that blockbuster three-team deal, Sacramento remained confined in mediocrity.
As common supervisor Monte McNair lastly parted methods with the franchise, count on main modifications to occur in Sacramento this upcoming offseason.
And so far as for DeRozan, he can solely wait and see the place he’ll find yourself within the wake of one other summer time stuffed with utmost contemplation.
“You at all times need a sort of basis that’s steady. And understanding going ahead, I’m fairly positive a variety of selections should be made out of prime to backside,” he added.
“Like I mentioned, subsequent couple days, subsequent couple of weeks simply processing the whole lot that sort of went on. From a private standpoint, that’s going to be a precedence then we see what occurs from there.”
