Sacramento Kings Assistant Coaches And Coaching Staff 2023-24 Season

Mike Brown commenced his journey with the Sacramento Kings on May 9, 2022. Brown has been awarded NBA Coach of the Year in 2023.  

In his first season, Brown led  Sacramento to a 48-34 record and their first playoff spot since 2006.

The former player, Brown began his coaching journey in 1997 as an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards under Bernie Bickerstaff. He worked as an assistant for the Indiana Pacers until the end of 2005.

The 31st Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown previously coached the Golden State Warriors, who reached the NBA final in 2022 making them the winner against the Boston Celtics. 

Winning that game made the third championship for the Warriors and 4th NBA title for brown as an assistant coach.

In 2005, for the first time, Brown was appointed as a head coach replacing Brendan Malone for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Mike helped the Cleveland Cavaliers reach the NBA finals in 2007.

He helped the Cavs to win 61 games in the 2009-10 season. The success of the Cavs landed him with an award for the NBA Coach of the Year in 2009.

Sacramento Kings coaching staff consists of associate head coach Jordi Fernandez. Fernandez was employed on August 12, 2022.

Mike hired Jordi as a player development coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009. It was the beginning of his career in the NBA. 

The 40-year-old was engaged with the Canton Charge in 2013 as the top assistant coach in the NBA Development League. His work and dedication made him the head coach of the Canton after a year of joining. 

The Spanish coach was apportioned as an assistant coach from 2017 to 2019 by the Spain U19 men's national team. Fernandez also serves as the head coach for the Canadian men's National team.

He also worked as an assistant coach under Brown for the Nigeria national team in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Before joining the Kings, he was an assistant for the Denver Nuggets from 2016 to 2022. Later on August 12, 2022, he allied with the Sacramento Kings under Mr. Brown. In the Summer League team in 2022, he helped the Kings to get the MVP as acting head coach.

Dutch Gaitley began his tenure at the Sacramento Kings in July 2022 as an assistant coach. Dutch also looks after the Director of Player Development program. 

Gaitley was a pupil of Temple University. He played his first three seasons at Monmouth University. He later became a graduate assistant for Temple University in 2011-12.

In the year 2012, Dutch was appointed as a video coordinator for a season at Lehigh University.

The university graduate journey began as a coach in early 2015 when he was hired as assistant coach of the San Antonio Spurs. He worked under Gregg Popovich till 2018 when he was offered a chance to work for Charlotte Hornets.

For 5 years from 2018 to 2022, Gaitley was an assistant coach who worked under James Borrego for the Hornets. The veteran coach was made the head coach of the Hornets from 2021-2022.

Jay Triano is the first Canadian born coach in the history of the NBA. Triano was appointed as an assistant coach for the Kings on 12 August 2022.

Triano began his player journey when he was drafted by the NBA in 1981 by the Los Angeles Lakers. He was associated as a player till 1988 with the Calgary Stampeders.

In the year 1983, Triano led the Canadian team into the World University Games. They were awarded with a gold medal. He had been an active basketball player for three seasons.

In 1998 Triano's career started getting the path toward coaching by becoming the head coach of Simon Fraser. Later he joined the Toronto Raptors as an assistant coach in 2002. 

Triano was appointed as the head coach in 2008 for the Raptors and remained in that position till 2011. In the year 2012 while serving the Portland Trail Blazers as an assistant he was constituted as the head coach for Canada's national team. 

He had previously been involved as a head coach for the Canada national team in the year 2004.

The 40 year old NBA veteran Leandro Barbosa started his new career as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings on 12 August 2022. 

The San Antonio Spurs selected him in the NBA Draft in 2003 which was an indication of his basketball journey. After playing for 21 years alongside 10 clubs he rested his playing career and commenced a new journey.

The Golden State Warriors proclaimed that Barbosa was returning as a player mentor coach. During his time the Warriors overthrew the Boston Celtics in the 2022 finals and won NBA championship.

Deividas Dulkys has joined the Sacramento Kings as an assistant coach for player development in 2022. Dulkys was awarded Polish League Top Scorer in 2014.

The Lithuanian player had a successful professional basketball career that lasted for nine years, trading between twelve clubs. He was formerly known for his role as a shooting guard.

The 35 years old elevated his coaching career on October 23 2021 after being appointed as an assistant coach for the Memphis Hustle.

Sacramento head coach Brown was acquainted with Dulkys when Nigeria was getting ready for the Olympics in Tokyo. So he has joined Coach Brown as King's new coach and an assistant coach for player development.

Monte McNair was appointed the Sacramento Kings general manager and president for basketball operations on September 17, 2020. 

McNair is a well-known American sports executive who spent 13 years of his life for the Houston Rockets organization. 

The club owner Vivek Ranadivé appointed McNair for his extensive experience and vision for basketball. The Kings went through some changes with the addition of new personnel for basketball operations.

McNair was voted NBA Executive of the Year on May 3, 2023, after leading the Kings to their first playoff appearance since the 2005-06 season with a 48-34 record.

Vivek Ranadive purchased 65% of Sacramento for $534 million dollars in May 2013. Ranadive was the preceding co-owner of the Golden State Warriors.

Vivek is the first Indian born to own an NBA franchise. Right after Ranadivé got hold of the Kings, he made some questioning changes. He propounds a style of creating a 4-on-5 defense while one player plays offense. The plans and proposals by Vivek were criticized and blamed for the absence of success.

Sacramento Kings Owner Net Worth

Vivek Ranadive is a philanthropist and a businessman with a net worth of $700 million dollars. Vivek purchased the Kings for a whopping $534 million dollars.

Vivek amassed his millions working for many software companies Ford, M/A-Com Linkabit, and Fortune Systems, and developing a software bus for digitizing Wall Street and trading. 

Founder and chairperson of TIBCO and Bow Capital which helps the business create their software and hardware products as per the solution on SOA. 

There have been around 14 Sacramento Kings owners since 1923. They are listed below in the table.