Geoff Petrie Blasts Vivek Ranadivé

Just the other day, Vivek Ranadive had a lot to say about his early tenure as owner of the Sacramento Kings. Vivek talked about a lot of different things, such as the doomed relationship between Pete D’Alessandro and Michael Malone, but one of the nuggets in his comments were about the state of the franchise when he took over.

You have to keep it a little bit in perspective, Sam, because three years ago, it was (Chief Operating Officer) Matina (Kolokotronis) – she gave me the keys to Sleep Train (Arena). I’d never been here before. I walked in, and there was nobody who wanted to be here. There was no coach, no GM, it was a ghost town. (Author's note: in actuality, longtime basketball…