Do-Over Week: Leave Mike Malone alone and keep him as coach of the Kings
New York TimesIt’s a question I’ve been asked seemingly hundreds of times over the last five-plus years: How would the Kings be different if Michael Malone had not been fired 24 games into the 2014-15 season? Cousins’ emotions got the best of him more than once with coaches Paul Westphal and Keith Smart, but Malone found a rapport with his emerging center, who would make his first All-Star team that season. But because we had veteran guys with experience that believed in the coach and his system, I think that’s one of the reasons it wasn’t so bad.” With Malone still in charge, the Kings would have steadied themselves and would have been in the running for at least a portion of the season to be the team to face Golden State in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Cousins, already upset over Malone’s firing, tried to be a team player, so to speak, when he addressed the media, saying he didn’t know Malone would be fired until he saw news reports.
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