by Jeff Hall

SACRAMENTO–When this whole thing about bringing George Karl on has head coach which started on Tuesday night it brought a whole whirlwind of confusion going on this road trip to Chicago and now onto Milwaukee. The word that the Sacramento Kings DeMarcus Cousins said after last week’s Utah game Cousins said “were confused” and the players were all confused and that added to it in their loss to Chicago on Tuesday night 104-86.

The Kings new owners who already have the new arena being built in downtown Sacramento couldn’t wait to have things start happening to this team. Things didn’t get off the ground as the owners expected. From the beginning of the season things were going better than anyone expected in terms of the way the Kings were performing for former head coach Michael Malone.

When Cousins came down with meningitis and while he was out the team stopped performing and when that performance started to drop out the door went Malone who was fired by the Kings. Then the Kings replaced Malone with Tyrone Corbin who will work his last game on Wednesday night before new head coach George Karl will take over the reigns after the NBA All Star game on Sunday.

Malone was to be the interim coach who didn’t last and then Corbin was hired as the permanent full time coach and that’s not the case anymore as Corbin’s case is not as successful as they would hope. Now their going to go with a legendary NBA coach George Karl which on the surface is not a bad thing. When you look at it you say “hey George Karl is a winning coach, he’s had some experience with some great basketball players and some great basketball teams.”

Karl is coming off his last job coaching for the Denver Nuggets, the thing about this is that Karl is getting older 62 he’s beaten cancer twice and that’s a concern that the Kings have. The original deal was that the Kings wanted to sign Karl onto a four year deal worth $4 million per year. The Kings are expected to make an official announcement on the signing within the next few days and are expected to make that announcement during All-Star weekend.

Karl reportedly was holding out as of Tuesday for another year to make it a five year contract. Terms of the deal have not been updated but it was reported on Wednesday night that Karl had signed on with the Kings. The team is concerned about Karl’s cancer history, the plan sources have been saying throughout the negotiations that the Kings would like to get Karl started after the All-Star break as that looks like it will come to fruition from all indications.

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