Kings head coach Doug Christie gets brutally honest about job security

SACRAMENTO ― The Sacramento Kings have dropped another game and if you think head coach Doug Christie is worried about being in some kind of hot seat, he’s not. And he shouldn’t be.

It’s a familiar position for Christie, who’s been dealt a bad hand since his head coaching tenure began. He inherited a then-Mike Brown team that was a season removed from the postseason before eventually trading its franchise player, De’Aaron Fox. They finished 40-42, Christie went 27-24 as interim, having taken over after a 13-18 start.

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Last season, as an official first-year coach, without the interim tag, multiple players in his projected lineup, including Domantas Sabonis and Keegan Murray, missed large portions of the season, and the Kings finished with its worst record in franchise history since moving to Sacramento at 22-60.

And now, the Kings are having one of the worst starts in franchise history, dropping to 1-11 after their Friday night loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, 120-107, on Nov. 13 during the NBA Cup. It’s the worst start since the 1990-91 season, in which that team started 1-13.

“I think this seat is hot always, so it doesn’t really matter,” Christie told USA TODAY about potentially being in the hot seat. “Obviously, we want to win games. Nobody wants to win more than me, from the standpoint that the record doesn’t go on the player’s numbers. The record goes on coach’s number.”

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