Report: Ex-Utah Jazzman Natt replaces Reggie Theus as Kings' coach

Seeing as how I am not much up on basketball. I found a article that was. And the only basketball I do know is the Spurs and Mavericks. But I will say this. This guy may have deserved to get fired, but some coaches are getting no chance to be successful in pro sports. It is either championship or your gone. Some of these coaches need to build a team. It is not just going to happen overnight. And then there are coaches that should of never been hired in the first place.

By Jody Genessy

Deseret News

Make that 225 coaching changes since Jerry Sloan took his position as head coach of the Utah Jazz.

And, ironically, the latest coaching change has some strong ties to Sloan and the Jazz.

According to an ESPN.com report, the Sacramento Kings fired coach Reggie Theus today. Former Jazz player and assistant coach Kenny Natt will reportedly replace him on an interim basis.

Theus, who played with the Chicago Bulls when Sloan was the coach there and was later a star with the Kings, became the sixth NBA coach to get fired less than two months into the 2008-09 season.

Others who have lost their jobs the same year Sloan commemorated his 20th anniversary with the Jazz include Maurice Cheeks (Philadelphia), Randy Wittman (Minnesota), Sam Mitchell (Toronto), Eddie Jordan (Washington) and P.J. Carlesimo (Oklahoma City).

The 50-year-old Natt played for the Jazz briefly in the early 1980s, playing in 22 games in 1982-83 and four during the 1984-85 campaign.

After his playing career ended, Natt was one of Sloan's assistants for nine years and was a scout for Utah for two years.

Incidentally, Natt was a Jazz training camp roommate of new Toronto coach Jay Triano in 1984.

This is the second year with the Kings' organization as a coach for Natt, who played for the Kansas City Kings in 1984-85. The Louisiana-Monroe product was an assistant with Cleveland prior to joining Theus' staff in Sacramento.