[Highlight] Former Kings coach Mike Brown gets a standing ovation from the crowd
Props to the fans for being supportive
I mean I still don’t get why he was fired other than “team underperforming, therefore fire coach as easy scapegoat”
Kings FO failed to get the right players for Brown’s system. The Beam Team year was successful because it caught the league off guard, but Brown was trying to instill defensive values and management didn’t build a roster around that. When they started losing, the blame went to Brown instead of addressing the root of the problem
Poor kings fans. You guys were so close to finally getting out of basketball hell, only to be put right back in it.
Such is life…one us Kangz fan know far too well haha
Edit: forgot a word, “know”
Killin’ it all day, mang! But the true fan knows what it is to back a losing franchise
Where’s that Rudy Gobert vomit story from like a few years ago
Kings FO and owners are the biggest problem, no matter how many coaches they hire/fire
Brown actively sabotaged himself though, vetoing trades for “dumb” players like Collins and instead pushing for guys like washed Javale and Chris Duarte
You don’t think beam team 1 deserved the chance to run it back year 2?
A lot of people (me included) felt that year was close to a best case scenario for the Kings and they needed to make some moves with a good-not-great roster in the bloodbath West.
Sure enough, the runback didn’t even make the playoffs and you see where the team is now
same thing happened with JB Bickerstaff on the Cavs
aint his fault Jarrett Allen soft as butter
I like JB but I’m not ready to give him his flowers yet. He’s in about the same place with the Pistons that he was with the Cavs and Grizzlies. Scrappy underdog, possibly overachieving. The Cavs needed a change of scenery and the coach is the easiest thing to change. While it’s looking like that wasn’t the only thing the Cavs needed I still think they needed to move on from JB.
The coach can only do so much. Look at the Lakers. JJ will straight up call em bitches in public and they still soft.
lets be real. JJ aint gonna say shit to Luka and Lebron’s face. Lebron straight ignored JJ’s playcalls and was dapping up the opposing bench mid-game
doubt JJ even has the balls to yell at Bronny
Doubt JB would either. NBA players are gonna be billionaires in the next 10 years so like I said there’s only so much the coach can do. The only exception might be Darko because I want to imagine him getting into it with a player and looking at them like “I coached in Serbia brother” while he puts a cigarette out on his own hand without flinching.
Same about Michael malone back in 2014. 1st winning coach in a while and they fired him right after
See that one I kind of get because Malone was stubborn to a fault when it came to rotations and not playing the young guys the FO drafted/wanted him to play/develop
Mike’s biggest crime was…I guess not playing Keon Ellis enough (The same thing the current coach is guilty of doing)?
This is the exact complaint that like 90% of fanbases in every sport has about their head coach. Kind of feels meaningless at this point
In his defense we’ve seen the young guys Malone wouldn’t play in Denver look fantastic once they actually get the opportunity. You’re right tho those are always the same complaints.
After 1 season though? They were so bad and firing all their coaches. Malone comes in and starts winning and they were upset at how he was winning? Give him a few years at least.
Well FWIW the Nuggets cleaned house by firing the FO head along with Mike due to the constant butting heads and headaches they’d (allegedly) cause
If nothing else, they made the right choice since Adelman is lowkey a dark horse candidate for CotY with how he’s handled this Jokic-less stretch
Nuggets fired Malone because he was contributing to a toxic environment that was clearly affecting the team, particularly a lot of the young guys. If not for that, he’d almost certainly still be employed there (and same with Booth). Based on all of the reports that have come out, that situation was incredibly untenable.
After 10 years of winning and a championship.
At this stage, winning a championship seems like a nothingburger to teams these days i.e. Bud, Nurse, Malone, Vogel were all fired years after winning
Only Kerr and Crazy Joe Mazzula - among coaches who’ve won 2+ years ago from this season between 2016-2025 - are still employed by the team they’ve won with
Literally the one coach that Cousins actually got along with well while on the Kings.
They hired George Karl to coach them afterwards.. Yeah
Nobody remembers this, but this is basically the biggest reason why firing Malone was fucking dumb. Cuz was a headcase and Malone somehow had good chemistry with him.
FO pressured Brown to fire an assistant during a losing streak to “shake things up.”
Brown refused.
Brown was fired instead.
The coach is always the first scapegoat, then it’s usually the second best player that’s not the current face of the franchise. Then they fire the next coach and repeat
It’s hilarious when you read this thread then most Knicks post-game threads. Or like any of the Kings threads from before he was fired.
He completely lost the locker room and the team was regressing each year despite minor roster upgrades.
Was the bigger problem the roster? Yeah, of course, it just wasn’t a legit playoff roster in the West and the og Beam Team year was kinda a fluke. But young guys weren’t developing - or sometimes even getting minutes despite already being better than vets that were being prioritized - and the vets on the team aside from Fox were getting sick of him.
Plus his subs and rotations were abysmal, his game management stopped existing after year 1, there was no discernable system on defense and the offense regressed heavily once the team didn’t have godly 3pt shooting.
He shouldn’t have been extended when he was, that last year should have been a prove it year, and then he could have just been let go as a free agent when his contract ended unless something drastic changed (it hadn’t, and likely wouldn’t have).
Overall I give him a lot of credit for his part in the turnaround his first year, he brought an energy to the team that it hadn’t had in many years. But I give him just as much credit in the team’s regression the next couple years as he went away from things that were working in Y1 and his whole system/persona had clearly started to get old with the players. I think losing Jordi Fernandez and one or two other key assistants really exposed him as being propped up by a good staff - on a team propped up by some incredible luck and surprise factor.
because he isn’t a good coach and Jordi did all the real work
It’s also why Fox was like “fuck this, I’m going to leave to a more stable logical environment”. Went from first time in playoffs to having the coach fired. not the best sign of confidence following their first time back in years.
You really don’t know Fox’s history with the Kings. He sandbagged the team when Hali got drafted and basically forced us to trade one of them. It’s not like he was committed to the team until Brown got fired. He was moody af.
lol Fox was already one foot out the door for some time and used Browns firing as PR cover since he hates being seen as the bad guy. He certainly wasn’t playing his heart out for Brown during the losing skid
G1C in Sac is the shit, good people and good vibes.
They have such amazing fans and deserve better.
You can tell he was waiting to see what their reaction was, and you can see the instant relief on his face when they cheered
He deserved the standing O. Got us out of the longest playoff drought in NBA history. Plus most fans still really liked him when he was canned.
Mike Brown is a real one, I wish he come back to the Warriors and work on our defense again.
looooool
I don’t know if reddit opinions differed from the overall fanbase, but from my memory most Kings fans on here were pretty frustrated with him playing/not playing certain players and satisfied to see him gone
Times heals wounds but yeah this was an issue dating back to the first year with him.
We didn’t like his rotations or in-game adjustments. But fans complain about every coach regarding these things. It wasn’t enough, for me, to support firing him. Certainly not to replace him with a legacy hire. Let’s not also forget that Brown was given a team of mismatched parts, with basically zero length, athleticism, or defense.
Well their current coach also plays Monk and Ellis sparingly, haha
Every coach will get slandered when a team is losing. I’ve seen warriors flairs flaming steve kerr a bunch when the guy is a big part of your teams success. Its easy to blame a coach for not playing x or y when in reality most people don’t even understand what a coach is doing most of the time.
He wasn’t the problem.
That’s pretty cool man. I don’t think too many coaches get cheered by the fans of their former teams
Kings fans are way too fucking good to have to put up with what they do lol
If you’re a kings fan after all the kings have done, you are a good fan. There is no other way to end up here lol.
Sac has one the of the best fanbases in the league. Every time I’m in Golden One it reminds of the Oracle days
It’s a purification process.
for real they might be the most punished fanbase over the last 30 years. They got literally robbed in 2002
I grew up a Bulls fan cause of MJ but after the team broke up I became a huge fan of the Webber/Bibby Kings teams so much fun to watch and the fans were always the wildest in the league.
For a second it looked as if he was about to embrace some boos or something lol. Great ovation
Yeah it was kinda cool to see him gauge the reaction first. You can tell he didn’t know what the fans would do lol
Light the beam era was short but competitive. Also, seeing Steph so petty about it was hilarious.
An iconic era in the tapestry of the nba
Yay we’re some threads or whatever
Tyrese Haliburton
Mike Brown
De’Aaron Fox
Harrison Barnes
Malik Monk
..wait
Ahead of yourself there
Nah Fox I woulda booed. Hali and MB definitely tho are loved by the city.
Kings fans are goated
Classy moment regardless of how things ended Mike Brown clearly meant a lot to that fanbase
He was extremely active in the Sacramento community and could be found at the local high school’s football games where his kids went taking photos with students and interacting with fans.
Yeah that’s pretty much how it feels he clearly meant a lot to the city and the fanbase but when expectations rise coaches usually end up taking the fall whether it’s fully on them or not NBA can be ruthless like that
Don’t forget that MB was fired in a massively shitty manner. The city is on his side here.
Dragging that franchise to the playoffs should’ve gotten him a statue in Sacramento
Someone link the clip of him running at practice
TURN THE FUCKING JETS ON
https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/y7v1aa/highlight_mike_brown_turns_on_the_jets_and_leads/
Also: https://np.reddit.com/r/kings/comments/19a2v1c/mike_brown_laptop_meme_collection_thread/
From this presser https://youtu.be/dx35bQqZ-J0?t=67
Man is just keeping it civil lol
I remember when Mike Brown was hired by Sac, they had big things going on until they didn’t. It’s too bad Sac FO didn’t know wtf they were doing cause Coach Brown is an excellent coach.
Only coach that made them remotely relevant since Boogie.
respect
Former Kings coach AND 2023 Coach of the Year Mike Brown
Can I just say this dude seems like he hasn’t aged a day since coaching Lebron and the Cavs in 2008. Shit he might even look younger now. Pass me the skincare routine.
We know MB was the scapegoat. One of two coaches to have a winning record in Sacramento.
Only coach in the last 20 years to take the kings to the playoffs. Haha Mike even looked surprised at first lol
Brown got done so dirty by the Kings FO. Glad to see the fans still showing the love.
I miss the “turn the mutha fucking jets on” and him sporting the Kings crown or bringing a laptop to a press conference…not so much, his team coming out of halftime flat footed and lack of adjustments down the stretch with the team blowing leads :/ Not so sure which one I’ll recall more so
Holyshit, Mike Brown is only 55?! It feels like hes been around forever.
It was just yesterday I was watching him get parodied by ItsReal85.
he did great things for that team. id say he shouldnt have been fired if not for obvious reasons.
As he should
Fox got him fired then requested a trade, makes sense they’re on his side
Fox didn’t, Fox liked Mike Brown. In fact one of the reasons Fox was pissed at the Kings FO is that they fired Mike Brown, then the fanbase immediately blamed it all on Fox for the firing and Fox was pissed they didn’t say a word to defend to clear up the misconception.
damn, all this time I thought Fox got him fired, thanks for clearing it up
Fox certainly helped get him fired by playing like shit after the playoff year. Lot of games he basically phoned in.
That goddamn foul on the 3
That’s very classy.
One of the worst coaches of all time.
you can tell that felt good
Happy for him
undeserved
Take the kings to the playoffs once and they wanna build a statue for you. Sad
flairless behavior