I think 4 years of sub 20 wins gets any GM fired. In the case of the Kings who knows what would happen. The arena would be empty during most of those losses. You could lose the fan base, maybe even the franchise.
like in Philly, fans come back when the team is competitive.
In the case of Philly they were lucky to get the flawed Stars they have. Simmons has no J and Embiid walks a fine line with injuries. They cycled through a lot of picks to get those two. IMO they had an Alpha and let him get away to Miami. They are not the same team as last year. Is 6th in the East really what you want after all that tanking?
First of all I'm talking about sixers during their process. I already said that imo Colangelo and Brand didnt do a good job and they could be much better off right now with a better GM. Still with couple of not so good GM's, they are pretty well off right now.
I strongly disagree that its luck, they had multiple bites of the apple. Okafor and Noel failed because they werent good enough, Fultz failed because something happened to him that was basically never seen in this league and Embiid+Simmons worked.
Per:
https://fansided.com/2016/06/17/freelance-friday-expected-value-in-the-nba-draft/amp/
They didint get lucky, they were actually almost unlucky. They had two first picks, thats 60% chance to get an all star per pick. They also had 3rd, 3rd, 6th and TONS of other picks. Ending up with two all stars with that type of capital isnt luck, its what the odds suggest you would have and maybe even less than the odds suggest.
But the Kings have been a losing team for over a decade.
IMO what Petrie did is the best hope. Shrewd team building using the draft, trades and free agency. Vlade has tried to do what Petrie did.
Vlade has had mostly misses in the draft. Fox is looking like a star on the rise. Also there is hope MBIII comes back to close the season strong. Trading for Bogdan was a good move. Bazemore may prove to be a savvy trade as well. I'm hoping Buddy turns it around after the up and down season so far, he is looking better recently. Mr. Holmes is the best free agent acquisition in a long while IMO. Hoping he comes back and picks up where he left off. Ariza became Baze and that may turn out good. Dedmon and Cojo both battle on defense.
So yes even at this point I am hoping for a strong finish to this season. That might be enough to right the ship. If not what happens is up to Vivek.
To me one reason Kings have been losing for 13 years is that we never commited to really rebuilding. Getting bunch of 7th ovr picks makes it hard to get these franchise level players. It doesnt help that we've drafted really bad with those picks. The process worked for a reason. You get multiple top 3 picks, you are probably getting All star level players.
To me three 22 win seasons isnt that different from three 33win seasons. Either way we arent good enough. At least if we are doing "the process", we are adding lots of additional draft capital and have our own extremely high picks. That way there is a clear path for a real future success and with that, hope.