Last year's midseason meltdown was one of the more depressing and frustrating moments that I've experienced as a fan and I have to imagine it was much the same for members of the franchise itself. Ownership and management vastly overestimated the amount of pull they had with the team as well as the quality of the team itself. Their plan to retool and refocus midseason backfired horribly and ended up making the team worse off. It's no surprise that most of the people involved in making those decisions are now gone.
The Kings are in better hands now, but the whiff of failure still lingers around the franchise.