According to sources close to The Sac Rag, Reggie Theus has been fired as coach of the Sacramento Kings.
I hate to see this as I was a big fan of Reggie’s being the coach of the team. I thought he’d add some style to the otherwise dull franchise. What he’s added, however, is a lot of numbers in the loss column.
Are the Kings uncoachable? Are they just terrible? Does anyone care anymore?
The Sacramento Bee has added to its Databases section the salaries of our Sacramento Kings professional basketball team.
Wow, it’s good to be the Kings.
Update: The Bee has updated their page to finalize the “down-to-the-dollar reality of the team’s payroll”
In case you weren’t feeling old enough, Shareef Abdur-Rahim announced his retirement on Monday after 12 seasons in the NBA. Did you read that? Twelve seasons. Man, I think I lost a decade in there somewhere. When did 1996 become 12 years ago?
At any rate, it appears he’ll land a job with the Kings in some capacity. Good luck, Shareef.
I say this as a fellow Kings fan, but my years of following the NBA tell me that the team’s chances of reaching the playoffs this coming year is slim to none, with slim being a 100-1 long shot. (Hmmm, in the face of the semi-resolved Tim Donaghy scandal maybe quoting odds isn’t the best choice,)
Now the team has finally traded away its second-best player, Ron Artest. I will miss the good things he brought to the table, namely a never-say-die attitude on the court, a presence in the post, and, of course, most of all, his defensive intensity. But, I will happily wave goodbye to his penchant for off-the-cuff, contradictory statements to the press, which grated on Kings fans’ nerves after awhile. And, on the court, his self-delusion he could create offensively like a Kobe Bryant proved ill-founded and would lead to a poor offensive possessions on a team that could not afford very many of those.
Sac Bee’s Sam Amick is reporting that Kings point guard, Beno Udrih, who filed for free agency yesterday, will be staying with the Kings after all. Whew!
According to an article at Bloomberg.com, disgraced NBA referee, alleged gambler, and confirmed ass-hat Tim Donaghy claims that NBA referees, under instructions from higher ups, helped to defeat the Sacramento Kings in the 2002 playoffs against the LA Lakers.
If this is true, then this really sucks, and if the Maloofs should throw a Las Vegas style hissy fit. Also, if this isn’t some fiction dreamed up by a desperate tool, then David Stern will go down in a ball of fire while my mother-in-law pours gasoline on the flames. If there’s one thing that Mo-Law doesn’t tolerate, it’s immorality in her sporting events. Especially against her Kings.
Let’s all hope this picture does not say it all for the Kings in 07-08…
Elementary my dear reader, that would be the 6′1″ Earl Watson easily grabbing the board over the ridiculous 7 footer Brad Miller. I’m no Kings expert so I’d love to hear from some of those: how ’bout those Kings, eh?
Breaking news alert: Reggie Theus will be the new Kings’ head coach.
It seems to be a mixed bag of sentiments on tonight’s Koze* & Jason Ross show on KHTK — what say you?
(*Just a reminder that sac-eats and I cleaned the floor with his team at pub quiz at Streets of London one night)
Placer County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested Sacramento Kings’ Ron Artest on domestic violence charges.
Deputies say they got a call from Artest’s wife at 9:23 a.m. this morning.
Deputies responded and arrested Artest. He was taken to the Placer County jail in Auburn.
At this point I would like to retract 95% of my statements about the dog abuse thing…
UPDATE: CSI Sac provides the mugshot info
This Ron Artest animal cruelty (allegedly) thing keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Cbs13.com reported over the weekend that Ron “is no stranger to controversy over the treatment of his jobs” (seriously, Cbs13.com, do you even read your own stories?).
As for Artest’s dog “Socks”, CBS13’s Rafer Weigel reports that the dog is still very thing, but vets do expect the dog to make a full recovery.
Meaning the dog has a lot of long hair covering its eyes? And it walks around with a derby on? Oh wait, that was Cousin It, huh? At any rate, you get my point. When we at the Sac Rag publish a post we are immediately hammered with emails pointing out each typo or grammatical error. But I digress…
It appears that Ron Artest’s neighborhood association adopted new rules over the weekend.
It’s one of dozens of new rules the neighborhood association adopted over the weekend.
Well, Sacramento, you haven’t made us laugh in a long time. How’s-a-bout you let us know what other new rules you think they adopted over the weekend.
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