With just over a month to go until the 2025 NBA Draft, several prospects will hope to become part of the league’s next generation. Though the Sacramento Kings have just one second-round pick (42nd overall), they’re one of the franchises engrossed in the draft process. Not only have they met with a potential lottery selection in Oklahoma’s Jeremiah Fears, they’re now hosting their second pre-draft workout group.
The first group featured Texas Tech forward Darrion Williams, Missouri guard Tamar Bates, Florida center Rueben Chinyelu, Georgia guard Silas Demary Jr., Villanova guard Wooga Poplar and Kentucky center Amari Williams. Since their workouts, Williams and Chinyelu have withdrawn their name from the draft.
The second group features Tennessee guard Zakai Ziegler, East Carolina wing RJ Felton, Perth Wildcats wing Ben Henshall, Mississippi State forward Cameron Matthews, UAB forward Yaxel Lendeborg, and Oklahoma State forward Jalon Moore (per James Ham of The Kings Beat).
Kings Host Second Draft Workout Group
Zakai Ziegler
Ziegler is shifty and seasoned but significantly undersized. He wasn’t invited to the 2025 NBA Draft Combine and officially measured. However, he’s listed at 5-foot-9 and 171 pounds by ESPN.
In any case, the two-time SEC Defensive Player of the Year is an effective point guard who averaged 13.6 points, 7.4 assists, and 1.9 steals per game in 2024-25. Due to his age (22) and height, he may get drafted in the second round if he’s selected at all. Nevertheless, his potential impact as a two-way playmaker and two-way signing warrants closer inspection.
RJ Felton
Not to be confused with his cousin Raymond Felton Jr., who played for seven teams in his 14-year NBA career, this Felton (Jr.) also has a relatively stout build at 6-foot-3 and 214 pounds (per ESPN). However, he has more lean, athletic build.
RJ Felton getting in a little predraft workout in Utah with the Jazz franchise
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More importantly, he’s demonstrated upside as a shooter while taking 43.9 percent of his attempts from beyond the arc. In 2024-25, he converted a career-high 37.6 percent of his 3s. The South Carolina native also had a workout scheduled with the Utah Jazz this week.
Ben Henshall
Henshall is the only player in the group that has professional experience, having played in Australia’s National Basketball League (NBL) for two seasons.
An adept scorer at 6-foot-5 and 198 pounds (per Basketball Reference), the Perth Wildcats wing averaged 9.5 points per game and shot 33.3 percent from 3 in 2024-25. At 20 years old, he could be a draft-and-stash candidate for the Kings. It’s worth mentioning that he had a workout with the Portland Trail Blazers at the beginning of the month.
Cameron Matthews
Listed at 6-foot-7 and 235 pounds by ESPN, Matthews certainly has an NBA size.
Additionally, the fifth-year senior averaged 7.1 points, 6.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.4 steals per game in 2024-25. Those numbers are reminiscent of Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green’s. Similarly, he’s a strong, multi-positional on-ball defender with playmaking skills. Yet, he still needs to find a form of reliable offense as a scorer.
Yaxel Lendeborg
Lendeborg has been generating buzz for a few months now. Indeed, with the numbers he’s put up, he could be a late first-round selection despite his senior status.
Yaxel Lendeborg’s outstanding season ended in the NIT quarterfinals last night. The 6’9 big man helped his standing considerably with NBA teams, showcasing his ability to handle, pass, shoot, and rebound, with the type of two-way versatility, skill, and instincts NBA teams covet pic.twitter.com/iF3cpTt51d
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) March 27, 2025
With that being said, he averaged 17.7 points, 11.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.8 blocks and 1.7 steals per game in 2024-25. At 6-foot-9 (without shoes), he shot 35.7 percent from 3. He’s also a two-time AAC Defensive Player of the Year. There are enough tools in his kit to believe he could become a rotation player at the NBA level.
Jalon Moore
Despite averaging 15.9 points per game and shooting 37.1 percent from 3 in 2024-25, Moore seems to have gone under the radar. Like many of the prospects in this workout group, his senior status may have had a hand in that. To that point, younger players tend to be the focus of fans and talent evaluators.
Still, it’s unfortunate, as Moore has a game that’s tailor-made for today’s NBA. A more than capable slasher, 58 percent of his field goal attempts were taken at the rim last season. Another 29.9 percent of his field goal attempts were from 3-point range. He can even excel in transition and play out the pick-and-roll.
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