Sacramento Kings have Mike Brown, Steve Clifford, Mark Jackson amongst finalists for teaching job

Golden State Warriors assistant Mike Brown, Brooklyn Nets guide Steve Clifford and former Warriors coach and present ESPN analyst Mark Jackson are amongst finalists for the Sacramento Kings‘ head-coaching job, sources instructed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday.

All three have prior head-coaching expertise. Sacramento is trying to finish a 16-season playoff drought, the longest lively streak within the NBA with out a playoff look.

The Kings (30-52) completed the season with interim coach Alvin Gentry, who changed Luke Walton after he was fired following a 6-11 begin. The Kings have not received 40 video games in a season since 2005-06.

“We’ll run a complete and really process-driven teaching search,” normal supervisor Monte McNair stated after the season. “We’ll let that run its course, and we’ll take so long as we have to discover the proper particular person to guide this group, lead the group on the ground, and I am excited to see the people who we discuss to and what their imaginative and prescient is for the group as properly.”

Sacramento is constructing its franchise round two younger stars, middle Domantas Sabonis and level guard De’Aaron Fox.

The Kings have 11 gamers below contract heading into the offseason, together with Sabonis, Fox, final 12 months’s lottery choose — Davion Mitchell — and veteran Harrison Barnes. They’ve one first-round choose and two second-round picks within the June draft.

Info from ESPN front-office insider Bobby Marks was used on this report.