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Musselman's crown removed by Kings

Posted by Fired Fred on April 20, 2007 4:58 PM
Eric Musselman's first and last NBA season coaching Sacramento started with a drunk driving bust and ended with the team 16 games under .500 and out of the playoffs.

The Maloof boys have made plenty of gambling money by being the house. They recognize a bad run when they see one, and they promptly cut their losses by cutting Erratic Eric loose. Of course it was their fault the Kings even had Eric as a coach...
The firing is a disastrous end to an experiment by Sacramento owners Joe and Gavin Maloof, who dropped Adelman last summer against Petrie's apparent wishes.

They eventually collapsed into a season-ending 5-17 skid despite returning largely the same roster that scared the San Antonio Spurs in a first-round series last season.
Nothing like a little ownership meddling to really throw off a team. At least when Mark Cuban was a fatal distraction to his team last year, they were already in the finals.

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