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By TJ Macias
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You ask any Sacramento Kings fan right now would they rather continue to watch their team sink into an infinity pool filled with burning tar, or do the tango with a cactus, chances are fans will immediately choose the latter. And what’s difficult to understand is that fans have gladly chosen the latter for the past, oh, a billion years.
And they continue to struggle with the team being the recurring joke of the entire league.
One of the biggest gripes this year has been about head coach Doug Christie and why Sacramento continues to hold on to him despite a 1-10 start.
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On Friday, Sactown Sports 1140’s Carmichael Dave explained that the front office has every intention on keeping Christie for the remainder of the year.
“There is zero doubt that they do not want to fire Doug Christie,” Dave expressed. “They do not believe it’s going to make really any difference. It would really just be to shake things up a little bit and guess and maybe something slightly changes but it doesn’t address the core issues. They don’t want to do the multiple coaches. They one hundred percent want to hold on to Doug Christie for the remainder of the year. There’s zero ambiguity about that.
“But the waters are rising and it’s getting to a point where I could see at the press conference when they do or if they do make the move saying ‘we didn’t want to do this, we love Doug, this is not on him but at some point you’re wanting whatever the hell it is and we had to do something.’ So yeah, no, it’s not a good… rebuilds can be not fun sometimes and this is the not fun part.”
Rebuilds are never good, but Sacramento has been going through “rebuilds” for years when it comes to shuffling Finals worthy players and coaches around the league. Nothing is sticking, so the rebuild talk is what the talk reverts back to – and it’s getting boring.
Fans were quick to attack the supposed decision.
“I get the fact they don’t wanna go through the multiple coaches thing, especially with younger guys,” one person responded on X. “But these guys… the young ones… are getting nothing from this. Does it really matter that much if they give someone on staff a chance to run the ship?”
“The Doug Christie hire was bad from day one,” another noted. “Until Vivek gets serious about his franchise, it will always suck. It’s not fair to the fans or the players. Eventually the fans will stop showing up.”
“Garbage franchise,” someone said. “Losing has become accepted and tolerated.”
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