After working 13 years in basketball operations with the Houston Rockets, Monte McNair has served as general manager and president of basketball operations for the Sacramento Kings since 2020.
But after a resurgent in 2022-23 season that saw the Kings finish as the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference, Sacramento has regressed over the past two seasons while falling to the West's play-in tournament pool (spots No. 7 through No. 10 among the 15 teams) in both years. In early 2025, former All-Star guard and leading scorer De'Aaron Fox requested a trade and ultimately succeeded in leveraging a move to the San Antonio Spurs.