Not excuse, the fact, he was not chosen by Vlade.
What is not the fact is: "owner leaned towards firing".
If you follow the leaks, there was 1-2 folks that said anything, and then retyping army of paper-monkeys that quoted those two.
Since the leak followed our Kings fans agenda, it raised our hopes, we accepted them as true so this development is more shocking than it should be.
Few thingies that make this not such a surprise:
- Vivek has to fork out millions of $$$ to replace the coach, but we take it that he was leaning toward firing.
- Having Corliss instead of Karl does not mean ANY improvement, unless you think Corliss is a long term solution... which I do not agree with.
- The next coach has to be a long term solution. How well finding proper coach under pressure within a weeks works? Just look at the last year.
- We already had "players quit on the coach" discussion... right before the winning streak.
- Absolutely nobody can predict what will this Kings team do next, on and off the court (now this statement borderlines with being the fact

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