The Kings Herald Show returns with Will Griffith, Jerry Reynolds, and Tony Xypteras to say goodbye to 2025-26 Sacramento Kings. The next time you hear us on this feed, we’ll officially be in the offseason. Thank god, and thank you for listening.
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To Tony, Will and Jerry, for your fortitude and efforts this season:
How about you, Rob, for helping us reminisce about the good ol days with your series earlier this year? (Little did we know at the time how much gooder they were!)
Hear, hear!
This is the first season I can remember where I stopped even bothering to look at the box scores after games or to track the standings. The only thing that has made being a Kangz fan bearable is the amazing community here at TKH so thank you to our hosts (including those retired such as Greg) and to all the fantastic contributors.
I firmly believe that if Vivek and Front Office read the Kings Herald articles and listened to this podcast the franchise could be much better positioned going forward . It’s a low bar I’ll acknowledge !
Truth.
It’s a simple two step process to fix the Kings
1-get rid of Owner
2-win again
Thanks for sticking with it this season, gentlemen.
And IMO Doug Christie has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to get another season. He gets zero respect from the vets, and young players see that. Zero identity, zero gravitas, no sophistication.
yeah yeah yeah, the cons list is long…BUT the pros list = cheapest contract in the league sooooooooooooo
He has mates in local media 😉
Pending the lottery gods, Doug Christie and DeMar Derozan will be remembered by Kings fans for screwing the team out of the superstar talent they desperately needed.
And Mike is right that Christie is the cheapest coaching contract in the league, which is the only thing that matters for now. Christie will be out the minute Vivek sniffs an opportunity to win 42 games in a season. He’ll have ruined his reputation with Kings fans for nothing, just like Vlade Divac did.
The Blazers just sold for more than $4 billion, and I have little faith Vivek will take the money and run, because this is the only way he has access to B grade celebrities and end of career NBA stars, which appears to the the only thing that matters to him.
This team’s best hope is that the draft lottery is in fact rigged, and the league rewards the Kings for (stupidly) refusing to tank.
If I’m on the NBA lottery rigging commission, I’m going to give the top pick to the Pacers. They’re a better run, better coached organization, and adding a #1 pick to Tyrese and an NBA finals team might mean creating a top tier rival to the Thunder and Spurs.
The Kings will just screw it up. The rational decision is to drop them to the lowest possible pick based on their record.
Yes, Doug is the cheapest coach in the league, but he’s right there with the Jordi, Hardy, Johnson, etc. The difference is those coaches are young and about development of young teams. The Kings, like their roster, has one of the oldest coaching staff in the league and are content differing to vets and being a “player’s coach.”
Should the Kings land a top pick and future cornerstone, I’m all on board with hiring a coaching staff that is young and eager to develop with said player(s). OKC did it with Daigneault and the Spurs are doing it with Johnson.
No more re-treads or legacy hires. There is lots of fresh blood out there with the energy and new perspective this franchise needs.
Scott Perry is no spring chicken either
Kinda think a young dynamic GM would be good, has ideas tries things, makes moves
Agreed. If I’m not mistaken, he might be the oldest GM in the league. I think he and Dumars are the oldest, and ironically enough, come from the same front office tree and arguably made the worst moves over the past 12 months.
We’ll run Zach out again next season making $48.9M but we need to Doug Christie because he’s cheap. Looks at owner…yep, make sense.
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