Sacramento, California – less than an hour after the disappointing season of 40 victories of the Sacramento Kings ended with a defeat of the Dallas Mavericks at home, the director general Monte McNair met the owner of the Kings Vivek Ranadive in a back room of the arena and the two parties agreed Athletics.
The league sources claim that Scott Perry, who was vice-president of Kings basketball operations for three months in 2017 before being hired as Director General of Knicks in New York, is expected to receive high consideration for work and is considered a pioneer.
Perry, whose 25-year career of the front-office also included time with the Pistons de Detroit, Seattle Supersonics and Orlando Magic, had a solid working relationship with Ranadive during his visit to Sacramento and worked in close collaboration with the Director General of the time, Vlade Divac.
The former director general of Denver Nuggets, Calvin Booth, should also be taken into account, said league sources. Booth, who was dismissed by the Nuggets recently with coach Michael Malone, previously interviewed the Kings before hiring McNair in the summer of 2020. While Divac continues to have a presence and a voice around the team, especially with Ranadive, team sources say that he will not return to the team’s first offer.
The next managing director should have an influence on the ultimate choice of Kings for the head coach, but the acting coach Doug Christie is well placed to keep jobs, said team sources, although Christie said that he had not yet received firmness.
“None,” said Christie. “But that’s where I want to be. You know it. I need to finish what I started. ”
Monte McNair and Mike Brown in 2024 during an event in Los Angeles. (Charley Gallay / Getty Images for Netflix)
The departure of McNair concludes a five -year term as the team general of the team. Two April two, he was appointed director of the year of the NBA after hiring Mike Brown as a head coach and looking at the alignment he built around De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis set up the best offensive note in the league and breaking the drought of the 16 seasons of the franchise.
But this nucleus wedged within 24 months followed. McNair was unable to upgrade the necessary rotation on the edges to propel them forward. They won 46 games during the 2023-24 season but were eliminated in the game tournament. Then they signed DeMar Derozan during the summer, presenting it as the high-level missing room.
They stumbled in the first months and shot brown abruptly after a sequence of five consecutive defeats in December, which sufficiently broken down the organization’s relationship with Fox so that they were rushed into a trade before the deadline of February, bringing Zach Lavine as a priority victory piece.
McNair did not want to dismiss Brown, said league sources, and there are internal questions to find out if he really wanted to sign the derogen or exchange for Lavine. The tension has also existed in recent days between McNair and the property group on the future of Christie with Ranadive considered as the Backer Christie.
Seeming to lose the power to make decision within the franchise, McNair accepted the departure. The sources of the League say that McNair, who spent 13 years in Houston before joining the Kings, could return to the Rockets in a front office role with the director general and a close friend and former colleague, Rafael Stone. He also has close links and possible prospects in Philadelphia, where the former president of the Rockets of basketball operations Daryl Morey runs the Sixers Office Front.
McNair addressed Kings players in the locker room shortly after their elimination on Wednesday evening, league sources said, speaking with a greater view of the future. The players were informed shortly after he no longer headed the front office of the franchise.
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