When Monte McNair was hired as the Sacramento Kings’ general manager in September of 2020, it was pretty clear that the team needed to alter and improve its talent base if it wanted to break its excruciatingly long playoff drought. Now more than 15 months later, McNair has yet to do anything of significance outside of the draft and the Kings are in a familiar spot in the bottom half of the western conference standings.
McNair voiced a level of confidence in the organization’s core and overall direction heading into this season, despite several years of evidence that would say otherwise.