I don't think enough has been made of the Kings crazy stupidity this off-season.
In an effort to clear cap space to go for some big signings they shipped off Jason Thompson, Carl Landry, Nik Stauskas (the #7 pick last year), their 2018 1st round pick, and gave the Sixers rights to swap picks in 2016 and 2017. The Kings got a 2nd round pick and the rights to some European non-prospect.
The Kings then and couldn't find anyone to take their money, with multiple players rejecting them for less money elsewhere and eventually settled for the pariah, Rondo.
I cannot imagine the apocalypse if we'd shipped off TJ Warren, the Miami picks, Tucker and Marcus to clear space for Aldridge and whiffed on him completely.
That Kings trade is worse than our trade to clear Kurt Thomas' salary, and at least we had the concrete "avoid the luxury tax" reality to somewhat understand why it happened. The Kings gave away a bonanza and got absolutely nothing.
The Sixers have done a lot of dumb crap over the last few years but that was easily the most impressive move they've pulled off.