If only the Kings' coaching search were this transparent.

While Kenny Natt's successor hasn't been named, the Kings' predraft workouts continued Monday before a quaint media audience and with Geoff Petrie undeniably in charge.

The team's basketball president directed the six players on hand, looking spry and more than mobile enough to navigate the moving prospects while evaluating their talents. After visiting seven teams before coming to Sacramento, the session's uniqueness wasn't lost on Louisville swingman Terrence Williams.

"It's very unique (to have an executive running a workout), because the GM is running it like he's an assistant coach or an intern," Williams said. "(Usually), you see the GMs in a pretty $10,000 suit … twirling their wedding band around and watching us and having conversation on the side. This is the first time I'd seen something like that."

Added North Carolina shooting guard Wayne Ellington, who also took part in the workout: "I think it's definitely unique. Usually you have one of the assistant coaches running the workout and everybody else is watching, so it was good. It was hands-on."

Petrie always has made a habit of running the show, even in summers when he had a coaching staff. In lieu of such help, he had plenty of assistants on the floor for the workout that also included Florida point guard Nick Calathes, Connecticut point guard A.J. Price, Missouri power forward DeMarre Carroll, and Texas power forward Damion James.

There was Shareef Abdur-Rahim, the former Kings forward and assistant coach last season who will remain with the team in some capacity. There was director of player development Fat Lever, the team's resident point guard expert whose 11 NBA seasons included a 1988-89 campaign in which he nearly averaged a triple double (19.8 points, 9.3 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game). The usual suspects were on Petrie's periphery, from fellow front-office types Wayne Cooper and Jason Levien to Kings co-owner Gavin Maloof, scouts Scotty Stirling and Mike Petrie, and director of player personnel Jerry Reynolds. There were a dozen or so curious onlookers from the organization, too.

The talent on hand Monday was unrelated to the team's No. 4 pick but certainly qualified as possibilities for the No. 23 or No. 31 picks, with Williams the highest-profile prospect. And while the personable 21-year-old may be unpleasantly surprised if he's still available at No. 23, he said the excitement of being drafted at all continues to grow.

"I talked to my best friend last night, and I remember when we looked at the calendar and said, 'Man, the draft is 227 days … 18 hours, and 43 minutes and 22 seconds away, or something like that," Williams said. "You look at it now, and it's only 18 days or 17 or whatever it is. … It's worth it at the end of the day when you can wake up on June 25 and be nervous but know that you can be drafted."

On the coaching front, Petrie said a decision between Lakers assistant Kurt Rambis, former Phoenix and Seattle head coach Paul Westphal and Boston associate head coach Tom Thibodeau would come "sooner rather than later."

Sources with knowledge of the situation said the team's hypothetical offer that Westphal already agreed to would apply to Rambis as well: two seasons guaranteed at $1.5 million with a third-year team option worth $1.75 million. Incentives were likely in both cases to increase the salary based on the team's improvement, but it remains unclear whether Rambis, who is believed to be the front-runner, will accept those terms. It is not known whether those terms have been discussed with Thibodeau.

Petrie said it was "unlikely" any additional candidates would be considered and that second interviews were "possible, but not something that's being discussed right now."

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