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The Woj Pod

Kings GM Monte McNair

The Woj Pod

ESPN

Sports

4.6722 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Sacramento Kings GM Monte McNair joins The Woj Pod to discuss the challenges of taking over a franchise with a 14-year playoff drought, working with Vivek Randadive and Luke Walton, the craziest idea he remembers working in the Rockets front office, his Jim Harbaugh fandom and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Goodyear, more driven.

0:11.2

Hey, everyone.

0:12.2

Welcome into an NBA regular season edition of the WojPod.

0:18.4

And welcome into the new general manager of the Sacramento Kings.

0:23.4

Moni McNair, Moni, happy, happy start to the season and happy start to the King's season

0:28.2

tomorrow night against Denver.

0:31.3

Thanks for having me, Wojj.

0:32.8

And yeah, we're excited to get going.

0:34.2

And it's been a crazy off season but but we're about to play basketball

0:39.1

I think that's a good thing well I mean it seems like a very 2020 thing that the new general

0:45.1

manager of the kings is actually in Houston the Sacramento team he's a gym of now is in Denver

0:53.2

but that's your reality here for the holidays,

0:55.7

right? Yeah, no, I think in a normal year I'd go back and forth and make sure I was there,

1:00.3

but this year it takes a week or two to test back in. And so after the off season that I was

1:07.4

away from the family for a couple months, I decided to at least spend the holidays with my wife and two kids. And actually, we play the Rockets here in Houston twice, a new two

1:19.6

game series, also a 2020 introduction. And so I'll catch those two games. And then we're,

1:26.3

we're going to make the move up to Sacramento permanently.

1:29.6

Yeah, it's funny.

1:31.0

In talking to other team executives about traveling around and especially those who are living away from family right now, if you started a new job somewhere, you're not necessarily moving your family right away.

1:43.1

And a few of them have said they're going to go back

1:45.0

to the city. They live in for the holiday for a couple days and they can get tested daily at the

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