5 Players the Sacramento Kings could target after adding DeMar DeRozan

Between the draft, free agency, and the trade market, the Sacramento Kings have already had a huge offseason. That is especially true after their recent sign-and-trade to acquire DeMar DeRozan from the Chicago Bulls.

However, just because the Kings added a marquee player in DeRozan doesn't mean that they should remain complacent for the rest of this period. After all, a big part of the appeal for making a move for DeRozan was that it gave the team the flexibility to make additional moves afterward.

The Kings are a very good team right now. But if they want to solidify themselves in the upper echelon of the Western Conference, they will need to make one more decently sized move – preferably for a forward who can provide shooting, rim protection, and some closeout attacking.

With those parameters in mind, here are five names the Kings can try and target now that DeRozan is on the roster.

(Sidebar: These players are randomly listed. They are not ranked in order of best target to worst or vice versa.)

Target #1: Cameron Johnson

We've already weighed the pros and cons of acquiring Cameron Johnson in-depth on this website. He's a great shooter, on a solid contract, but his ability to provide secondary rim protection is questionable.

However, one piece of information that has since been pointed out to me by my good buddy Eric Weiss (give him a follow on Twitter) is that while Johnson's block rates aren't great (20th percentile last season, per Dunks & Threes), he is good at altering shots around the rim. Of the 109 players who qualified as "starters" last year, Johnson was 20th in DIFF% (the difference between what a player normally shoots on those types of shots and what they shot against that specific defender) on shots contested within six feet of the rim (per NBA.com).

A realistic trade for Johnson may look something like this:

Johnson and Huerter are similar players (young-ish movement shooters with some defensive limitations). The only significant difference is that Johnson is bigger (6'9 compared to Huerter's 6'7). To make up for this, the Kings could attach a future second round pick. But only a second because Johnson does cost more than Huerter (roughly seven million more dollars per year, per Spotrac), which diminishes his value in this situation a bit.