{"id":826995,"date":"2015-04-01T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T21:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=38180"},"modified":"2015-04-01T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T21:59:20","slug":"chris-mullin-officially-walks-away-from-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/chris-mullin-officially-walks-away-from-sacramento-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mullin officially walks away from Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35122\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Chris-Mullin-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"Chris-Mullin-Pic\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rumors have been swirling for the better part of a week, but today St. John\u2019s University officially announced Chris Mullin as their new head basketball coach. \u00a0With the acceptance of his new position, the 51-year-old Mullin is walking away from his post as the advisor to the chairman with the Sacramento Kings, a position he has held since September of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Sacramento Kings organization, I want to congratulate Chris Mullin on his hiring as Head Coach at St. John\u2019s University,\u201d Kings owner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/news\/ranadive-statement-on-mullin\">Vivek Ranadiv\u00e9 said in an official statement.<\/a> \u201cReturning to New York City and his alma mater is a natural fit for someone so deeply engrained in the basketball culture there. Mully has been a great friend and mentor to me. I have no doubt that the Red Storm will experience great success under his leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mullin era of Kings basketball may be one to forget. \u00a0The Kings won just 28 games last season and haven&#8217;t faired much better this year.\u00a0 After a quick start to the season, the Kings are\u00a0just 15-34 over their last 49 games and headed for their ninth straight lottery.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple sources, Mullin was not on board with the recent hiring of coaching legend George Karl, nor was he happy about the addition of former Kings great Vlade Divac to the front office staff. \u00a0The Hall of Fame player was noticeably absent from both introductory press conferences.<\/p>\n<p>When the position at Mullin\u2019s alma mater opened up last week, the Red Storm moved quickly to bring back perhaps the greatest player in their school history. \u00a0It also gave Mullin an easy exit from the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be the fittest team in the country, no doubt about that, and we\u2019re going to play our tails off, I can guarantee that,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/04\/01\/chris-mullin-promises-big-things-for-st-johns-at-emotional-intro\/\">Mullin said as he was introduced<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s great to be home. It\u2019s a surreal moment. St. John\u2019s University has meant so much to me and my family, and when that opportunity was presented to me, I couldn\u2019t turn it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity at St. John&#8217;s gives Mullin his first run at coaching since his retirement from the NBA in 2001. \u00a0The Brooklyn native will take over for Steve Lavin who led the Red Storm to a fifth place finish in the Big East and an NCAA tournament berth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what impact Mullin\u2019s departure from the team means for the rest of the front office. \u00a0In fact, Mullin\u2019s role with the club was never truly defined. \u00a0What is clear is that with him\u00a0out, there is one less cook in a very crowded Sacramento Kings kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mullin leaves the Sacramento Kings to return to St. John&#8217;s University where he played collegiate ball. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610259261],"tags":[610259427,610259433,610259428,76563,6368103],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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