Sacramento Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive has had a history of making comments that tends to easily catch media attention during his relatively young stint as an owner of the team.

His last appeared as a back-handed statement when he “unintentionally” threw former general manager Geoff Petrie under the bus.

“I needed somebody to go and actually work out the players,” Ranadive told Sam Amick of USA TODAY Sports last week. “Nobody wanted to be there. There was no coach (Keith Smart), no GM. Geoff (Petrie) didn’t want to be there. There was nobody there.”

Petrie naturally took offense to the comment, immediately firing back in order to set the record straight.

“The thing about this particular part of the interview, it’s just totally untrue,” Petrie told Kevin Draper of Deadspin. “The idea that everybody wanted to… that there was nobody there to do any work. These are people that spent 10, 15, 20 years working for the Kings, who were part of the most successful period they ever had, and they’re now, it’s like, “because they don’t matter anymore, I can say anything I want about them.”

Following Petrie's comments, Ranadive apologized and took ownership of his words and his mistakes.

“I wanted to sincerely apologize to Geoff Petrie and his team,” Ranadive told Ailene Voisin of the Sacramento Bee. “I meant no disrespect. I have the utmost respect for what they have done for the franchise and what they have accomplished. I fully understand that it’s a huge privilege to own a basketball team, and as chairman of the ownership, the buck stops with me. I accept responsibility for everything. All the mistakes are my mistakes.”

In business theory, an owner is first above all in taking responsibility, as successes and failures all fall over his hat.

The 59-year-old Indian-American businessman was previously criticized for being overly-involved with the team's basketball decisions and was quick to deny the claims as he still lives in San Francisco and visits Sacramento only a few times a week. But that came shortly followed with his revelation on the relationship of then-GM Pete D'Alessandro who was ousted from Sacramento before the firing of Michael Malone who coached the team for two seasons.

Ranadive committed an owner's cardinal sin of hiring a coach before hiring a GM, which showed as D'Alessandro shipped guard Isaiah Thomas to Phoenix. A mistake they rue to this day as he was a coach-and-fan-favorite.

The owner then proceeded to say how much the coach and GM hated each other, going as far as saying that they “hated each other's guts.

Ultimately, Ranadive took the right approach this time and apologized for his comments, but it might take a lot more than some apologies to restore the faith with Kings fans and the Sacramento community.