The Sacramento Kings have agreed to terms with Roland Beech, according to ESPN’s Marc Stein. Beech will reportedly serve as the Kings’ Vice President of Analytics.
Beech is a graduate of UC Berkeley and founded 82games.com, an advanced NBA stats forum. He was hired to be a consultant for the Dallas Mavericks during the 2005-06 season, and quickly proved his worth. Beech ascended to assistant coach by the time the Mavericks won the 2011 championship, and he most recently held the title of Dallas’ Vice President of Basketball Operations.
The Kings’ hiring of Beech quells speculation that the front office and Vice President of Basketball and Franchise Operations Vlade Divac planned to shun analytics.