Luke Walton is out in Sacramento, but Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé should be ousted for not having a clue

[Deadspin]

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Sacramento Kings handed Luke Walton his walking papers on Sunday, just 17 games into year three of his tenure as head coach. Walton leaves Sacramento with a record of 68-93, and after a decent start to this season the team began to crumble, losing seven of its last eight before his firing Sunday. The Kings are a very young yet talented team featuring De'Aaron Fox, Tyrese Haliburton, Marvin Bagley III, and Buddy Hield.

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[Woot!]

So, in sum: the Kings suck, their owner sucks, and there's no hope. Okay... but this writer apparently feels no obligation to offer a single concrete example of the kind of decision making that fuels that conclusion.

Not so much an argument as a diatribe.

 

[Tetsujin]

Soooooo the Kings shouldn't have fired Walton then?