What was becoming a long and embarrassing search for a head coach is finally over.
The Sacramento Kings have hired former Kings player and Hang Time star Reggie Theus to be the man in charge, and if speculation is to be believed, it’s because he’s a botched clone of Reggie Miller.
What’s most impressive is not that a successful human clone was made over 40 years ago, however. No, what’s important to note here is the absolute glee expressed by Theus upon learning he’d been hired.
“People that know me know that I am not someone who gets speechless, but right now I am,” Theus said Tuesday night. “When I got involved in the interview process, I really didn’t give it much thought. It was just a chance to experience an NBA interview, and I never thought about this really happening.”
We don’t want to call this a “bad hire” right out of the gate, but consider the following:
1) He’s a college coach without NBA coaching experience.
2) Reggie’s speaking as if he thinks one of his friends is playing a joke on him.
3) He’s been given the attribute of “he’s a nice guy” by management as a reason to bring him in.
We’re just saying, it doesn’t sound like a situation that’s gonna reign in Ron Artest and Team Dime, which two years later is still not a gang. Of course, that could all be irrelevent if SAC is successful in trading away its entire core and rebuilding around Kevin Martin.
That, or they could trade away their entire core and rebuild around Reggie leather sport coat, changing the name of the team to “The Northern California Leather Sport Coat Guys” and quickly becoming the most original and popular team in all of sports.
NOTE: In terms of blogosphere reaction, our first check-in was obviously with Tom at SacTownRoyalty, who (we assume) is so far gone into “wha…?” mode that he was only able to post quotes from other people.
UPDATE: Tom was also so shocked, his personality split in two, and the “louismg” half of him posted said quotes. We apparently don’t follow SacTownRoyalty as closely as we used to.
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The only “Reggie Theus hired as King’s coach” blog post in the entire internet that doesn’t contain a Hang Time joke. Either the Cavalier grew up under a rock and lacks knowledge of pop culture, or he is shunning the conventional….
What’s Hang Time?
An idealized version of the WNBA
umm, Hang Time was a show on NBC that was on Saturday mornings back in the day…
it had your boy Anthony Anderson (from Romeo Must Die and other assorted comedies) in the show. He was a basketball player on a team whose main players were an asian guy, a blonde haired girl (she was the star of the team), the goofy “Ashton Kutcher” type of guy who was always confused about whether he loved the girl or not, and then Anderson. Reggie Theus was the coach and then I think Dick Butkus took over the reigns after Theus didn’t come back.
Really? Tell me more – here are some other things I’ve never heard of btw:
-Nintendo
-Laser Tag
-Pogoball
-Saved by the Bell: The New Class
-bikes
-the sky
-oceans
-air
yep I’m sad to admit that I know that Dick Butkus did take over for Reggie Theus, which leads me to the Kings next hire……..Just using that Maloof thinking outside the box mentality
Laser Tag is where it’s at … one day they’ll make it an Olympic sport … one day
Sir Cavalier, it should be noted that TZ of Sactown Royalty was taking a well-deserved day off, and his much weaker, less intelligent simian-like assistant was simply filling in. Regarding the summary of other quotes, it was 1:30 a.m. at time of posting, and we were trying to get a gauge of other’s responses, rather than imposing our own take. TZ is of course back in his usual form today in the aftermath.
Sorry, Cav. Busy on my documentary “Who Shot Who Shot Mamba?” Had to follow some leads.
FYI, Tom, there was a second shooter, if you look closely enough. I can’t say anything else.
Perceptive!
nice of you to throw in “air” and “the sky” on those things you’ve never heard of… I didn’t think you were being sarcastic until then. now I just feel stupid.
saved by the bell: the new class?
pleeze.
o.g.’s roll with “good morning, miss bliss” or we don’t roll at all.
(the same show, almost all the same characters, but inexplicably set in indiana. when they changed to “SBTB” — that’s a little lingo for you — the next year, they had all inexplicably moved to california together, though got a new “hispanic best friend” and “moral crusader girl”.
and that’s one to grow on…
I used to have all the episodes of Saved By the Bell: The College Years on tape. As a youth I was perplexed by Zack Morris’s suddenly long hair and 35 pounds of additional muscle mass.
Honest to God – had never heard of Hang Time. I am almost 31 – was this past my time? I’m totally on-board with SBTB though.
28 – never heard of Hang Time, although the show’s intro on YoutTube rang a (SBT) bell.
I read Boney’s description with interest. Are you serious about Dick Butkis, or am I the one feeling stupid now?
yeah Frank, who would’ve guessed that the simple minded Dick Butkus could coach a boy’s basketball team where the star is a blonde white chick, one asian guy, the ashton kutcher guy, and anthony anderson. I don’t ever remember their 5th man because he wasn’t a main character, but I believe he was just some stand-in type guy, because they all kind of resembled Richard Jefferson.
now it all comes together.
the youtube clip of the intro from “hang time 2″ demonstrates with crystal clarity that the set for the lockers in “hang time 2″ was the EXACT same set for the lockers used in SBTB.
i don’t know what this means, or if it means anything at all. but i will say this: having never heard of the show, it does make me feel closer to all you (slightly) younger 20-somethings.
and that’s one to grow on…
It means they were both shot on Stage 11 on the NBC lot.
Be nice and I’ll tell you why Reggie and Anthony “left the show.”
who really cares why they left the show?
You mean, “left the show.”.
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