Malone fired

[fursty13]

Adrian WojnarowskiVerified account‏@WojYahooNBA
Sacramento has fired coach Mike Malone, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

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

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


Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA · 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

 

[D-Mass]

Saw that, too! I don't understand that at all. Hoping it's not true.

 

[macadocious]

WTF?

 

[KingMilz]

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.

 

[fursty13]

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.

 

[theclash4u5]

Well uh....what?

 

[annihilator_33]

Wow......talk about being blindsided

 

[macadocious]

Vivek must have read Android Kings posts, only thing that makes sense.

 

[New Era]

This is complete BS. Malone had the team off to their best start in years (minus DMC for 9 games), the team was gelling, and he got along with DMC. This makes ZERO sense at all.

 

[captain bill]

Whoa. Gonna be interesting to see the news come out on this over the next few days...

 

[KingMilz]

Maybe Malone would not play 4 on 5 cherry picking ball?

 

[New Era]

This is a HUGE step backwards in the stability of this franchise. He's a good coach and was making progress with a roster that has been pieced together.

 

[fursty13]

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?

 

[macadocious]

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?

Good GOD No!

 

[Kingfanpaul]

Stupid stupid stupid....first the niners are knocked out and then this. If I didn't have finals in the morning, I'd be hitting the bottle right now.

 

[Mad D]

I don't like this firing. I blame viral meningitis.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

This is insane with DMC out.

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

Awful decision and it came out of nowhere. If I told we would go 11-13 to start and we'd fire our head coach, you probably wouldn't believe.

Instead of firing Malone, we should have been fixing the garbage roster.

 

[New Era]

PDA thinks this is NBA2K or something....go through a rough stretch and make a trade...or fire the coach.

 

[fursty13]

This is insane with DMC out.

I hope DMC doesn't get pissed off and demand to get out of Sac. He seemed to genuinely enjoy playing for Malone.

 

[Kings Faithful]

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.

 

[Mad D]

Best record in several years and missing the only player that can create his own offense...

You're fired, Merry Christmas you filthy animal.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

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

 

[fansinceday1]

W
T
#.................

 

[Section 101]

I think the issue is they lost to teams they should have beat. It was lack of offense execution that lost the games.

 

[king07]

 

[captain bill]

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.

 

[miltonap]

Wow. Unbelievable. I'm done with the kings for a while. What a joke

 

[HereWeBoogie]

They sure as hell better have talked this over with DeMarcus before going through with it

 

[fansinceday1]

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????