NBA / Dec 15, 2008 / 1:47 pm
Breaking News: Reggie Theus Fired
Reggie TheusReggie Theus is number six. He’s been on the hot seat for a minute now, and the Kings brass finally decided to cut the cord today. According to ESPN.com, assistant coach Kenny Natt will replace Theus on the bench.
Theus held his job a couple days longer after the Kings surprised the Lakers last Tuesday. But without Kevin Martin consistently in the lineup this season, Sacramento hasn’t been able to get in any sort of flow.
Perhaps Sacramento’s management had to fire Theus, but it’s tough to imagine that another coach will do much more with a team who looks to John Salmons and Brad Miller for their offensive spark until K-Mart and Francisco Garcia are 100%.
Source: ESPN.com
December 15th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
j from la says:
saw it coming he had no hope hes in the west with out an allstar wat do u expect? good luck
December 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Tyrone says:
Ain’t no doubt that them coaches ain’t the problem y’all – if them coaches got shittyass ballers who can’t ball, ain’t their fault for not winnin.
True thugs NEVER lie.
Tyrone
December 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
calvin brodus says:
30 teams in the L and 6 head coaches fired already. Most teams have played about 25% of their regular season games thus far. So in the first 25% of the season, 20% of the league’s head coaches have been fired. That is jacked.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Gary says:
we can thank Kevin Martin’s groin for mushroom stamping Theus out of the league! Hilarious how their franchise player would probably not start on most teams in this league! JOKE!
December 15th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
dagwaller says:
The author of the article is 100 percent right – how can you fault coaches when there are injury problems?
December 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Austin Burton says:
They gutted the roster between last season and the summer, then they had their best player injured. They created a roster that you KNEW was gonna give up 110 points a game and decided to rebuild in a strong conference. Of course they’re losing. What was Theus supposed to do?
Oh well. He’ll get a good college job or be on TV soon enough.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
rubberbandman says:
It’s not Theus fault
and it hasn’t been Eddie Jordans fault
that their teams have the record the have
Nobody could turn Sac-Town into a winning squad with this roster when your go to guy is john salmons
no disrespect but John Salmons hasn’t been able to put up consistent numbers since he’s been to the L
December 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Kobeef says:
This is just like the Eddie Jordan or Carlesimo firings. I can’t imagine that any other coach could produce a better record with the teams’s star missing (Wizards), a rebuilding team (Thunder) or both (Kings).
Theus is probably sitting at home laughing since he will still get paid and some other chump will be stuck with this mess for another 60 games until he also gets fired.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
George W Kush Sr says:
You’ve got problems is Salmons is your go to guy night in night out. He’s playing the best he can, but he aint no franchise player, thats a bad situation.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
one66soul says:
Are all the fired coaches Blk?
December 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
qUeSt?? says:
i feel bad for him, i thought he did a good job last year with his roster.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
alex says:
dang all the fired coaches not black dis aint a racist thing man i dont see the naacp getting involved
December 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
one66soul says:
lol 4 out of 6 were black,
mitchell, jordan, theus, cheeks
December 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Spliff 2 My Lou says:
4 of the 6 are black
December 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Steve A says:
Well at least he will have time to film Hang Time: The New Recruits
December 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
bsteezy3 says:
Hmmmm….the talk is that the Maloofs are trying to make Sac-Town fans disinterested so that they can move the team to Las Vegas.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
EL says:
Larry Brown better get his Freedom55 weight up!
December 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
TheGreatGatsby says:
“Pretty Reggie” is what they called him.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Big Sneezy says:
Sucks to be a coach these days. Who’s the hapless assistant that gets to coach these guys for the rest of the year?
December 15th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Brown says:
There’s a reason all those teams stink, and it’s not because of their coach. Owners, upper management and/or the GMs are to blame in most of these cases, if not all.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
JCARR says:
How many more are predicted to be fired???
Its not his fault, but he still sucks at coaching.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
P.C. Peace says:
Y’all need to stop crying so much for reggie theus! when the games were on the line, who did he draw up plays fo’??? QUINCY EFFIN’ DOUBY?!!! not once, not twice, but over again … naaaaw man … i feel for the dude, but he had it coming …
December 15th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Reed Ewing Frazier says:
I can’t wait till overrated Mike D’Antoni is added to the fired coaches list
Knicks Up!! all the rest down!!
December 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
DJ Go Go Gomez says:
This firing was NOT about wins and losses. It was because of a lack of consistant effort and not developing the young guys. Reggie alwaysed seemed to have a resentment tword the younger player that played well. Like the way he favored Artest to Martin on offense last year when Kevin was obviously our best offensive weapon. Or continuing to start Mikki Moore even though Jason Thompson kept out-performing Mikki with less minutes.
@ Gary
“Hilarious how their franchise player would probably not start on most teams in this league! JOKE!”
Let see Kevin would probobly not start on Miami, L.A., Boston, N.J. or Detroit. That’s not MOST teams. You’re gonna tell me LeBron wouldn’t want him @ the two in Cleveland?? Or Utah wouldn’t want him? Or Denver?? Dallas?? Phoenix??
December 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
K Dizzle says:
@ 24 – good post. KMart is easily one of the top ten most efficient scorers in the l and reggie shoulda played the young’ins more. What was he savin them for? playoffs?
This call just happened
1) Secretary – “Mr. Maloof, Rick Adelman on line 2″
2)Maloof(joe or gavin) – “Hi, Rick. What’s up?”
3)Adelman – “hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
*click*
December 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Kermit the Washington says:
Sorry Reggie…back to Saturday afternoon sitcoms for you!!
December 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
JC says:
GAME-TIME… PLAYING TOGETHER!!!