The Sacramento Kings have selected their new everlasting head coach.
The Kings intend to maintain Doug Christie and can take away his interim tag, in response to Shams Charania of ESPN. The Kings are in talks with Christie over a multi-year deal that may see him stay within the job completely.
Christie always appeared to be the most likely choice of the Kings after taking up as interim head coach following the firing of Mike Brown final December. He had been an assistant with Sacramento since 2021, had developed a strong rapport with the gamers and overtly campaigned to be given the job on a everlasting foundation.
Christie additionally has sturdy hyperlinks to the group even past his teaching profession. He performed for Sacramento for 5 seasons from 2000-2005 and was chosen to the All-Defensive Group 4 instances throughout that span.
This will probably be Christie’s first head teaching job at any stage. The Kings went 27-24 underneath his steerage final season, in the end lacking the playoffs after dropping to the Dallas Mavericks within the play-in match.
