Kings interim coach Alvin Gentry knows his days in Sacramento may be numbered, but he declined to speak about his future this week, Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee writes. Gentry became the team’s interim head coach when Luke Walton was fired back in November.
“There would be no reason whatsoever to discuss it right now,” Gentry said. “The season is going to be over in the next two weeks and then from there, we’ll sit down and talk and figure out the direction that everything should be taken.”
Sacramento owns the 12th-best record in the West at 29-49 and is on the verge of being eliminated from play-in contention. Gentry joined the franchise in 2020 after a five-year stint as the Pelicans’ head coach. His coaching career began as an assistant at Baylor during the 1980/81 season.
There’s more out of the Pacific Division today:
- The Lakers lost a marquee game against the Pelicans at home on Friday, recording its fifth consecutive loss. The team now trails San Antonio by one game (and a tiebreaker) for the No. 10 spot in the West. “The big picture is it was pretty much a must-win for us, and we didn’t get the job done,” LeBron James said, according to Kyle Goon of the Southern California News Group (Twitter link).
- The Suns plan to rest three starters against the Thunder on Sunday, Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic tweets. Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton and Jae Crowder all won’t play. Phoenix is coming off a 122-114 loss to the Grizzlies on Friday. Memphis was missing Ja Morant, Desmond Bane, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Steven Adams in the contest.
- Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports hosted a wide-ranging interview with Lakers star Russell Westbrook, who’s in the midst of a tumultuous season with the team. When Westbrook was asked why he hasn’t taken time off despite being scrutinized by fans, he replied, “Because it’s bigger than me, man. I’m super blessed to have a platform to be able to help show and help other people. So I’m very prideful in showing people on the outside that regardless of the situation, the circumstances that I may be going through, there are ways to be able to get through it. I strongly believe that if I’m healthy, then I’ll be able to play and go out and compete.”
Lebron in year 19 is leading the league in scoring and is going to miss the playoffs because he wanted to be GM. In fairness to him he was essentially the GM who orchestrated the AD trade and they won a chip (I’m really not interested in hearing “but the bubble” as if those conditions weren’t more taxing mentally than any other playoffs EVER).
Plain and simple, not even making the play IN rests on the shoulders of Westbrook and his contract. LeBron is tied to that choice.
Very unfortunate season and disappointing to see.
To the Laker fans, and I mean this whole heartedly; HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WE TOLD YOU SO
Lol
But the bubble!
I will forever believe the lakers don’t win that 2020 title if it wasn’t played in a bubble.
However, I also get that’s not changing and they got chip from that situation.
They had the 2nd best record in the nba. They had a great shot winning without the bubble. That team was firing on all cylinders prior to the stoppage.
Every single team in the bubble got the same amount of rest and time to heal up, all tes played under the same conditions and nobody had home court advantage. Lakers absolutely earned that title.
Who is We?
I can tell ya this, non Laker fans are getting a whole lot bigger kick from this than real Laker’s fans are getting upset
It’s been a pleasure watching LeBron this year, the road crowds have agreed as well; especially as of late . Lakers fans will tune into the NBA playoffs with Glee thinking nonetheless
There was never a Us V Them mentality, it’s just been adopted by Laker hating fans who have no better island to fish off, apparently a crowded island
If you look hard enough there is an excuse for everything. Bubble, injuries, prison, etc.
The team that wins the playoff tournament is the champion and that’s it. That’s it! Opinion has no bearing. There are no do-overs. Lakers won and anyone trying to argue they didn’t is objectively wrong.
How many Heat fans were rooting for their team to lose because it “wasn’t a real championship?” I’ll wait…
Lakers fans,
Are you willing to entertain trade offers for Westbrook?
The Q is take bad money past 23′ in a trade or just eat RW/23′
Id just grab the fork for next year but I see a trade the most likeliest result .
Westbrook deserves some credit for trying but it’s not because he’s some athlete of character. He needs to keep padding hus career stats and also prove that he’s career us not over, so he can convince anither team to take a chance on him. It’s unfortunate ending of a great talent who never evolved or worked on his game because of his big ego.