The Sacramento Kings hired Denver executive Pete DAlessandro as their new general manager on Saturday. DAlessandro will replace the departing Geoff Petrie, a team official confirmed on condition of anonymity because there has not been a formal announcement yet. The move was first reported by Yahoo! Sports. New owner Vivek Ranadive has already hired Mike Malone as the teams new coach and was looking to replace Petrie, who ran the basketball operations for the Kings since 1994. Petries contract expires at the end of the month and he is helping the new regime prepare for the draft. DAlessandro was executive vice-president of basketball operations in Denver. The Nuggets already lost general manager Masai Ujiri to Toronto this off-season and coach George Karl was also let go despite leading the team to a franchise-record 57 wins this season before a first-round playoff loss to Golden State. DAlessandro has spent nearly a decade in the front offices with Golden State and Denver. His first item of business in Sacramento will be the draft on June 27. The Kings have the seventh pick in the first round. The Kings also must decide what to do with volatile but talented centre DeMarcus Cousins, who has averaged 16.3 points and 9.8 rebounds per game his first three seasons. Cousins has struggled with defence and discipline and was suspended three times last season -- twice by the NBA and once by the team. Sacramento is coming off a 28-54 season -- the teams seventh straight under-.500 campaign. This recent rough run follows a stretch when Petrie built one of the leagues top teams that made eight straight playoff appearances and made it to Game 7 of the 2002 Western Conference finals before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers. Ranadive led the group that bought the team last month from the Maloof family at a total franchise valuation of more than $534 million to keep the franchise in Sacramento. 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If necessary, Cleveland will host Games 6 and 7 on Nov. 1-2.There had been a movement by fans on social media for Sheen to throw the first pitch and be part of the pregame festivities.Sheen got wind of the buzz and responded on Twitter, posting a photo of himself as Vaughn in his Indians uniform and wrote, Major League continues to be the gift that keeps on giving! if called upon, Id be honored.Sheen made an appearance during the playoffs at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday when the Chicago Cubs beat Los Angeles in Game 4 of the NL Championship Series.ddddddddddddReleased in 1989, Major League is a fictional account of the Indians finishing in first place with an unconventional group of players including Vaughn, who struggled to find the strike zone and warmed up to Wild Thing, a No. 1 hit song in 1966 by The Troggs.The real Cleveland Indians, who overcame injuries to win the AL Central, before knocking off Boston and Toronto in the playoffs, took a page from Major League this season.Slugger Mike Napoli and second baseman Jason Kipnis constructed a shrine in an empty clubhouse stall between their lockers like one in the movie. 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