Malone fired

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Adrian WojnarowskiVerified account‏@WojYahooNBA

Sacramento has fired coach Mike Malone, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

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· 32s32 seconds ago
Despite star DeMarcus Cousins missing past nine games, Malone didn't meet win-loss expectations of ownership, sources tell Yahoo.

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· 4m4 minutes ago
Assistant coach Ty Corbin will take over as interim head coach, league source tells Yahoo Sports.


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· 1m1 minute ago
GM Pete D'Alessandro hadn't hired Malone, and had never been strong bond between them. Still, ownership's expectations are unrealistic.

Sam Amick ‏@sam_amick 6m6 minutes ago
No incident, from what I'm told, just no patience for a group that was doing good things but had lost its centerpiece (Cousins)since Nov. 26
 
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Wow it's true

I have to assume Malone and Cousins must not have been close at all if they fired him otherwise having a upset Cousins is not a good thing.

I assume there was differences between Malone and the management.
 
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Wow it's true

I have to assume Malone and Cousins must not have been close at all if they fired him otherwise having a upset Cousins is not a good thing.

I assume there was differences between Malone and the management.
I'm baffled by this. If you told every Kings fan that the team would be 11-13 and 9 of those games were played without DMC, they'd be ecstatic.

Either Malone did something shady, front office is being honest, or DMC is a really good liar and hates Malone.
 
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I mean, sheesh. I don't know what PDA was expecting. Dude's nuts. Is there any way we can get Mark Jackson in here midseason? Does Vivek have a relationship with him?
 
#21
What in the world. This can't be true... I mean, he hasn't been perfect but were off to our best start in YEARS. I really don't want a revolving door of coaches again. This could set us so far back.
 
#23
Wow even as much as some of us had been pointing out some strange things Malone was doing, i was NOT expecting this at ALL.

was at least thinking Pete would try to fill some of the obvious holes in the roster first
 
#27
I'm having sudden flashbacks to the Iggy fiasco of a few years back. This is not good. He was Vivek's first hire of his ownership, and was considered a good get.
 
#30
He had to have done something wrong.
Something to do with Omri not playing cause he's "hurt?
His undying allegiance to Sessions T'ing off the front office?

I thought he was doing pretty good????