New Sacramento Kings general manager Pete D’Alessandro comes highly regarded, he’s been praised quite a bit in several NBA circles, and it’s hard to doubt for a second that he’ll do just fine picking with Sacramento’s seventh overall pick in Thursday’s NBA draft. The problem here is that D’Alessandro was given less than a fortnight to make his selection, after being hired by new owner Vivek Ranadive earlier this month. And though Pete is a smart basketball dude, he’ll be going up against NBA GMs that have months to figure out where to go with the draft. Heck, some of these lottery participants have known since the final pick of the 2012 draft that they’d likely end up back in the lottery in 2013. Kind of unfair. Kind of par for the course, when dealing with the fallout of the disastrous Maloof regime in Sacramento. USA Today’s Sam Amick spoke with the newbie for a column published on Thursday : The workload that D'Alessandro described as "six months of work in nine days" might be unprecedented because of the circumstances.
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