On Tuesday morning at the team’s Experience Center on the corner of 7th and J Street in downtown Sacramento, Dave Joerger was introduced as the team's newest head coach by Kings VP of Basketball Operations and GM Vlade Divac. “It was not a long process for us, it was a bang-bang deal,” joked Joerger, who added that both sides came to a quick decision because of the “great fit professionally and personally.”
Growing up in a town of just under 3,000 people, the Staples, Minn. native is accustomed to smaller markets with passionate fanbases – spending the first seven years of his professional career coaching teams in North Dakota and South Dakota within the International Basketball Association, Continental Basketball Association and NBA D-League.