The Kings may have trouble attracting quality general manager candidates if interim executive VP of basketball operations Joe Dumars guides the franchise through this year’s draft and free agency, writes Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee.
Although the dates may be moved, the draft is currently set for October 16, with free agency getting under way two days later. There have been indications out of Sacramento that the search will be lengthy, and a new GM may not be in place in time. A source tells Anderson that potential candidates “don’t want ownership of those decisions” if they aren’t able to make them.
Anderson points out that the Kings gambled in 2015 when they hired Vlade Divac to run the team with no previous front office experience in the NBA. He doesn’t expect that to happen again, noting that the rumored candidates for the job include Knicks GM Scott Perry, Raptors GM Bobby Webster and a few others, all of whom come from winning organizations.
There’s more from Sacramento:
- Harrison Barnes tells James Ham of NBC Sports Bay Area that the players should accept responsibility for their disappointing performance in Orlando. The Kings went 3-5 in seeding games and extended their streak of missing the playoffs to 14 years. “It starts with personal responsibility, everyone looking in the mirror,” Barnes said. “I can speak for myself and say I got better every game that went on, but I wasn’t at my best in the first game. So you have to own that and move forward from there.”
- Richaun Holmes didn’t get much notice when he signed with the Kings last summer, but he may have been this season’s MVP, suggests Tracee Jay of NBA.com. Holmes took over the starting center spot early in the year and wound up averaging 12.3 points and 8.1 rebounds, both career highs. He also led the team in win shares among players who appeared in at least 40 games and was second to De’Aaron Fox in PER. “The love they’ve shown, the way they’ve embraced me, it’s very special,” Holmes said of Sacramento fans. “I love playing here. I’m happy to be a part of this culture.”
- Arizona’s Zeke Nnaji, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, has already interviewed with most of the league and will talk to the Kings next week, tweets Darren Wolfson of 5 Eyewitness News.
How are the Knicks considered to be a winning organization?
Technically, they have won a game before and are organized to a certain extent, so by scrutinized definition… it’s true. But I wouldn’t call them that.
They used to be, but now they are 2985-3178 overall.
Perry was a front office executive for the Pistons when they were actually good. The article implies the Knicks were the organization from which he earned his accolades though, so I understand the confusion
Not exactly a league-wide vote of confidence in Joe Dumars. But I doubt his presence keeps a preferred candidate away. It’s a supercool job, and nowadays with huge offices the best a newbie can get is final say, anyway.
WCS put up the same stats w 28mpg, so… he signed for half of what Holmes did.
My predictions for 5 worst teams in West
11 Grizzlies
12 Pelicans
13 Spurs
14 Wolves
15 Kings
Timberwolves picks are not ready
No Wolves and no Kings play defense
My prediction for 5 most useless posts on Hoops Rumors.
Well, I am not going to name names but I think the top 5 will be fairly similar.
Pelicans won’t be in the bottom 5, but OKC probably will be.
Okc?
That is just his playoff worry coming through.
Seems about right