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Adelman signs extensionKings coach Rick Adelman was provided more perspective than anyone needed during the past season and first few weeks of the 2003 NBA offseason. So it wasn't as much a negotiation as a minimal meeting of the minds for he and the Kings to get together on the contract extension he said actually was signed Thursday night. "Obviously, I really like our team," Adelman said Friday at a hastily gathered news conference at the team's practice facility. "I love living here and coaching here, and this is the best of all worlds for me. Looking around the league at all the things that were going on, there obviously was a lot of opportunity out there if you wanted to pursue things, but to me, at this stage where I'm at, this is where I wanted to be. "I wanted something that would solidify my position here, and I think we've had a really good run and we still have a run ahead of us. So I'm real happy that this was done. The Maloofs have been great to me. This is the third time they've done this." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Kings' coach, owners dealingWithout a pick in either round, the Kings didn't have much to offer in the NBA draft, but they're ready to make coach Rick Adelman an offer he apparently will not refuse. The Maloof family ownership group and Adelman are close to agreeing on a three-year contract extension. Adelman, who has been the Kings' coach for the past five seasons and compiled a 245-132 record (.650), is entering the final season of a two-year deal. "It's something we've been working on for a while -- probably for about the past 10 days to two weeks, and we're pretty far along," Geoff Petrie, the Kings' president of basketball operations, said Thursday night after watching the draft. "I'd say we may have something more to say about it in the next few days." Joe Maloof said that the family appreciated Adelman's production and performance but also his class and loyalty during the past few months, when the NBA coaching circle turned into a carousel for dollars. "This is something we initiated," Maloof said. "Gavin and I believe he's done a great job, and we support Rick and wanted to show that we appreciated that he's done well. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Will it be a day of rest for the Kings?Meanwhile, over at the Kings' offices, you could slice the tension with a warm hunk of Velveeta. It's the day before the NBA draft, and you've seen afternoon naps with more drama. Which brings us to today's philosophical talking point: If they hold a draft and the Kings don't come, does the thing really exist? The employees at the decision-making levels were their usual accessible and occasionally insightful selves Wednesday, which is to say, they had plenty of time to field a phone call or two. As well they might: Barring an apocalyptic trade offer between now and draft moment, the Kings will take an 0-fer today for the first time in their local history. Counting back to the Alpha year of 1948, this franchise in whatever form always has made a draft-day pick of some kind, be it mysterious and compelling (an unknown Peja Stojakovic in 1996), exquisite (the great Oscar Robertson in 1960) or simply absurd (Never Nervous Pervis Ellison in 1989, the No. 1 pick overall: 34 games and out forever as a King). Not today. With the Darius Songaila deal sending Sacramento's late second-round pick to Boston, the Kings have nothing on the board at all. Via Sacramento Bee Columnist Mark Kreidler Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Kings Jun 2003 Archive
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