Portland Trail Blazers center Mason Plumlee (24) dunks in front of Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams, right, in the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

The Sacramento Kings are currently tied for ninth in the Western Conference standings which puts them one position out of the playoffs. Their tied with Portland, they are two games behind Denver whose in the eighth position and final playoff position right now. All three of those teams are 5-5 in their last ten games. Denver is on a one game winning streak where they just demolished Golden State on Monday night. Good gosh 24 three pointers in that game for Denver I didn’t know they were capable of that.

Golden State didn’t know that Denver was capable of that. Portland has lost two games in a row and Sacramento has won three games in a row and have the Lakers next. Denver and Portland just made a trade generally when you’ve got two teams that are this close together and fighting for a playoff birth the last thing your going to do is make a trade and they made a trade of centers. So the Nuggets get Mason Plumlee from the Portland Trailblazers whose been averaging 11 points per game and is a pretty good ball player the Nuggets also picked up a second round pick. Portland gets back from the Nuggets Jusuf Nurkic who is a center averaging seven points per game five rebounds per game they get a first round pick a pick that originally belonged to Memphis.

Charlie O podcasts Sacramento Kings basketball each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com