New owner Ranadive hired Michael Malone as the head coach before he hired a general manager. Vivek, whose basketball acumen was limited to coaching his daughter’s team, picked Malone because Malone, then a Warriors’ assistant coach, was intent in watching court play during the playoffs. Vivek’s reason for selecting Malone? “He did not look at me! Me! A minority owner!”
Only after did he hire Pete D’Allessandro as the GM, and when Malone’s team was not racing up and down the court (as Ranadive thinks basketball should be played), Vivek fired Malone.
Although the Kings under Malone had stunned the league by opening the season 9-5, they had fallen to 11-13 when DeMarcus Cousins contracted viral meningitis (and Cousins thought the world of Malone!