Kings coach Rick Adelman was provided more perspective than anyone needed during the past season and first few weeks of the 2003 NBA offseason.

So it wasn't as much a negotiation as a minimal meeting of the minds for he and the Kings to get together on the contract extension he said actually was signed Thursday night.

"Obviously, I really like our team," Adelman said Friday at a hastily gathered news conference at the team's practice facility. "I love living here and coaching here, and this is the best of all worlds for me. Looking around the league at all the things that were going on, there obviously was a lot of opportunity out there if you wanted to pursue things, but to me, at this stage where I'm at, this is where I wanted to be.

"I wanted something that would solidify my position here, and I think we've had a really good run and we still have a run ahead of us. So I'm real happy that this was done. The Maloofs have been great to me. This is the third time they've done this."