The Sacramento Kings are a dumpster fire franchise. They've shuffled through four coaches, reorganized the front office with alarming fluidity and kicked the can down the lottery road ever since Vivek Ranadive took over as majority owner in 2013.
Their 2013 first-round pick, Ben McLemore, was losing playing time to James Anderson earlier this season. Their 2014 first-round pick—Stauskas? STAUSKAS!!!—has already been jettisoned to Philadelphia. Their 2015 first-round pick, Willie Cauley-Stein, is a living and breathing human on the Sacramento Kings but has already been dumped from the starting lineup and is now behind Kosta Koufos in the rotation.
Oh, right, and their coach and star player seem to hate each other.
The relationship between George Karl and DeMarcus Cousins was seemingly doomed from the start. Cousins' camp reportedly pushed against Karl being hired in the first place. Karl reportedly clashed with Ranadive over whether to trade Cousins this summer. That snafu reportedly caused Ranadive to consider firing Karl for the first time.
Then, everything was calm for a ...
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